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  Hunter, Charles

  hybrids

  identity

  ImClone

  “Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime, The” (Levitt)

  incentives

  bright-line vs. murky

  change of

  as cornerstone of modern life

  criminal

  definitions of

  discovery and understanding of

  economic

  of experts

  invention and enactment of

  moral

  negative vs. positive

  for organ donation

  power of

  of real-estate agents

  response to

  schemes based on

  of schoolteachers

  social

  study

  tinkering with

  trade-offs inherent in

  for voting

  infanticide

  information:

  abuse of

  assumption of

  asymmetric

  dissemination of

  expert

  false

  media and

  in personal ads

  power of

  recording of

  secret

  withholding and editing of

  see also data

  insider trading

  insomnia

  Institute of Medicine

  Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

  Oversight Board of

  Internet

  comparative shopping on

  information as currency of

  voting on

  see also dating, online

  intuition

  Iowa Test of Basic Skills

  iPODs

  Iraq:

  U.S. invasion of

  weapons of mass destruction and

  I Rode with the Ku Klux Klan (Kennedy)

  Jacob, Brian

  Japanese Sumo Association

  Jefferson, Thomas

  Jeremijenko, Natalie

  Jeremijenko-Conley, Yo Xing Heyno Augustus Eisner Alexander Weiser Knuckles

  Jim Crow laws

  jobs

  interviews for

  loss of

  payment for

  John Bates Clark Medal

  Johnson, D. Gale

  Journal of Political Economy

  Joyce, Ted

  J. T. (gang leader)

  Justice Department, U.S.

  Kaczynski, Ted

  Kansas City Royals

  Kennedy, Anthony

  Kennedy, Stetson

  anti-KKK campaign of

  doubts about veracity of

  Kennedy School of Government

  “Kidney Beancounters”

  Klan Unmasked, The (Kennedy)

  Kranton, Rachel

  Krugman, Paul

  Ku Klux Klan

  collusion of law enforcement with

  founding of

  revenue sources of

  rituals and language of

  terrorist aims of

  undercover exposé of

  up-and-down history of

  “Labor Market Consequence of Graduating College in a Bad Economy, The”

  Labor Statistics, U.S. Bureau of

  Lafayette College

  Lane, Loser

  Lane, Robert

  Lane, Winner

  Latinos

  Lee, Robert E.

  Levitt, Amanda

  Levitt, Andrew

  Levitt, Jeanette

  Levitt, Steven D.:

  awards and credentials of

  curiosity of

  family life of

  fundamental ideas of

  gambling and

  New York Times Magazine profile on

  physical appearance of

  salary of

  unorthodox approach of

  in Wikipedia

  Library of Congress

  Lieber, Ethan

  life insurance:

  comparative shopping for

  falling cost of

  term vs. whole

  LifeSharers

  Listerine

  Little League baseball

  Lott, John R., Jr.

  Lott, Trent

  lying

  lynching

  Maass, Peter

  McCorvey, Norma

  McDonald’s

  McLemee, Scott

  macroeconomics

  mad-cow disease

  Madonna

  Mafia

  Major League baseball

  Malthus, Thomas

  managers

  markets:

  oil and

  for organ donation

  Marks, Johnny

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

  mathematics

  game theory and

  May, Robert

  measurement

  economics as science of

  tools of

  Mecka, Lauren

  media

  experts and

  information and

  Medicare

  Merrill Lynch

  Mexico, prostitution in

  microeconomics

  Mills, Richard P.

  Miyake, Mitsuru

  Monday Night Football

  money:

  banking and investment of

  bribes of

  drug-dealing and

  embezzlement of

  laundering of

  oil and

  politics and

  stealing of

  Moore, Harry T.

  morality

  economics vs.

  incentives and

  self-interest and

  More Guns, Less Crime (J. Lott)

  Morris, William

  Moses, Zelman

  Mulligan, Casey

  murder. See homicide

  Murphy, Kevin

  Mussolini, Benito

  mutual funds

  names

  Asian-American

  black female

  black male

  brand

  changing of

  destiny and

  European

  Hebrew

  Irish

  Jewish

  Latino

  misspelling of

  most popular

  parental education and

  socioeconomic status and

  source of

  white female

  white male

  National Basketball Association (NBA)

  National Bureau of Economic Research

  National Football League (NFL)

  National Health and Social Life Survey

  National Research Program

  national security

  “Nature and Nurture of Economic Outcomes The” (Sacerdote)

  Navy, U.S.

  Net Misreporting Percentage

  New Hampshire, 1890 Congressional race in

  Newsday

  New York, City College of

  New York Police Department (NYPD)

  traffic violations and

  New York Times

  New York Times Magazine

  New York Yankees

  Nobel Prize

  No Child Left Behind law

  Nostradamus

  Nozick, Robert

  Nurture Assumption, The (Harris)

  nylon stockings

  obstetricians

  O’Connor, Sandra Day

  oil, peak

  olive oil

  Olympic Games

  corrupt judging of

  “On Behalf of a Moratorium on Prison Construction”

  On the Waterfront

  OPEC

  “Organ Donation: Opportunities for Action”

  parents

  abandonment by

  adoptive

  African-American

  conflicting advice to

  fearfulness of

  influence of

  names chosen by

  obsessiv
e

  punishment by

  single

  status and education of

  tardy day-care pickups by

  Parent Teacher Association (PTA)

  Parks Department

  parole revocation

  Patinkin, Mandy

  peak oil

  Pearson, Drew

  Pennsylvania State University

  Perkins, Brady

  Perkins, John

  Pinker, Steven

  Pittsburgh Courier

  Plato

  Plessy v. Ferguson

  police

  crime statistics and

  increased numbers of

  innovative strategies of

  political science

  politicians

  liberal vs. conservative

  lying by

  poop, dog

  Porter, Jack

  pregnancy tests

  Princess Bride, The (Patinkin)

  Princeton University

  Prisoner’s Dilemma

  prisons:

  crime rates and

  homosexuality in

  prostitution

  racism

  segregation and

  see also Jim Crow laws; lynching

  Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children (Hulbert)

  randomness

  rape

  real-estate agents

  clients’ best interests and

  commissions of

  incentives of

  sale of personal homes by

  terms used by

  Reconstruction

  regression analysis

  Rehnquist, William

  Republic (Plato)

  résumés

  “Ring of Gyges, The” (Plato)

  Riordan, Richard

  Ripley, Amanda

  robbery

  Roberts, Seth

  Roe, Jane. See McCorvey, Norma

  Roe v. Wade

  Rogers, Will

  Rosenthal, Robert

  Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (May)

  Sacerdote, Bruce

  Sachs, Jeffrey

  Sailer, Steve

  Salmon, Felix

  Salomon Smith Barney

  Samuelson, Paul

  Sandman, Peter

  Satel, Sally

  Scalia, Antonin

  Schelling, Thomas

  Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SATs)

  schools

  choice of

  desegregation of

  quality of

  see also students; testing

  Schwarzenegger, Arnold

  Seale, Bobby

  Seinfeld

  self-esteem

  self-experimentation

  self-interest

  of experts

  impartial observation vs.

  truth and

  Sen, Amartya

  Senate, U.S.

  September 11 terrorist attacks

  sex

  oral

  sex education

  sex scandals

  Shangri-La Diet

  Shawn, William

  sleep

  Slemrod, Joel

  Smith, Adam

  smoking

  Snyder, Mitch

  social promotion

  social science

  Social Security

  societal norms

  sociologists

  Socrates

  Soviet Union, collapse of

  Spears, Britney

  Splash

  sports:

  cheating in

  drugs in

  gambling on

  glamour of

  incentives in

  judging of

  throwing matches and games in

  Stanford University

  Center for Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences

  Law School

  state-year interaction

  stealing

  white-collar

  Stetson, John B.

  “Stetson Kennedy: Applied Folklore and Cultural Advocacy” (Bulger)

  Stetson Kennedy Day

  Stetson University

  Stewart, Martha

  stock market

  Stone Age

  storytelling

  students:

  black vs. white

  cheating by

  Latino

  measuring academic performance of

  minority

  social promotion of

  study incentives of

  testing of

  sugar water

  sumo wrestling

  cheating and corruption in

  data on

  elite tournaments in

  history and tradition of

  incentives in

  media scrutiny in

  ranking and earnings in

  superpredators

  support groups

  Supreme Court, U.S.

  SUVs

  swimming pools, drowning in

  Switzerland

  Szilagyi, John

  taxes

  cheating on

  evasion of

  “sin”

  withholding of

  tax gap

  teachers