On the Uses and 'Abuses' of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate

By Paul R. Zimmerman. 2006

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Transparency, Reproducibility, and the Credibility of Economics Research (2018, unknown): “…et al. (2009), from whom we borrow the above notation, study the deterrent effect of the death penalty with a model averaging exercise combining evidence from Donohue and Wolfers (2005) and Dezhbakhsh, Rubin, and Shepherd (2003) and use the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) (Schwarz 1978).”
Criminal Deterrence: A Review of the Literature (2017, background): “Finally, as noted by Berk (2005) and Donohue and Wolfers (2005), results are highly sensitive to the inclusion of certain states and even certain influential data points (i.e., Texas in 1997).”
The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design is Taking the Con Out of Econometrics (2010, unknown): “Leamer (1983) drew an analogy between applied econometrics and classical experimentation, but his proposal for the use of extreme bounds analysis to draw the two closer is not the main reason why Source: Donohue and Wolfers (2005).”
Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models: Understanding and summarizing the fitted models (2006, background): “See Dorman and Hagstrom (1998), Costa and Kahn (2002), and Viscusi and Aldy (2002) for different perspectives of economists on assessing the value of a life, and Lin et al.”
A Structural Perspective on the Experimentalist School (2010, background): “A good example of why functional form matters is the Donohue and Wolfers (2005) study that Angrist and Pischke discuss.”
Deterrence in the Twenty-First Century (2013, unknown): “…NRC report titled Deterrence and the Death Penalty, which I coedited (Nagin and Pepper 2012), as well as two reviews of the literature commissioned by the NRC committee (Chalfin, Haviland, and Raphael 2013; Charles and Durlauf 2013) and two valuable reviews by Donohue and Wolfers (2005, 2009).”