John Richard Lott Jr. (born May 8, 1958) is a visiting senior research scientist at the University of Maryland, College Park and has held research positions at numerous institutions, including the University of Chicago, Yale University, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and the American Enterprise Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA, and his research interests include econometrics, law and economics, public choice theory, industrial organization, public finance, microeconomics, labor economics, and environmental regulation. Image File history File links Unbalanced_scales. ... is the 128th day of the year (129th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Jan. ... A Visiting Scholar is generally a Professor at another institution that visits a receiving University that hosts the visiting scholar in question where he or she is projected to perform research, teach, and/or lecture on any of the wide array of topics of intellectual pursuit. ... The University of Maryland, College Park (also known as UM, UMD, or UMCP) is a public university located in the city of College Park, in Prince Georges County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C., in the United States. ... For other uses, see University of Chicago (disambiguation). ... Yale redirects here. ... The Wharton School Wharton School is the business school of University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... This article is about the private Ivy League university in Philadelphia. ... The American Enterprise Institutes Logo The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) is a neoconservative think tank, founded in 1943. ... Face-to-face trading interactions on the New York Stock Exchange trading floor. ... The University of California, Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a public research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. ... Econometrics is concerned with the tasks of developing and applying quantitative or statistical methods to the study and elucidation of economic principles. ... Law and economics, or economic analysis of law is an approach to legal theory that applies methods of economics to law. ... Public choice theory is a branch of economics that studies the decision-making behavior of voters, politicians and government officials from the perspective of economic theory, namely game theory and decision theory. ... Industrial organization is the field of economics that studies the behavior of firms, the structure of markets and of their interactions. ... Economic policy Monetary policy Central bank   Money supply Gold standard Fiscal policy Spending   Deficit   Debt Policy-mix Trade policy Tariff   Trade agreement Finance Financial market Financial market participants Corporate   Personal Public   Regulation Banking Fractional-reserve Full-reserve   Free banking Islamic        Public finance is a field of economics concerned with paying... Microeconomics (or price theory) is a branch of economics that studies how individuals, households, and firms make decisions to allocate limited resources,[1] typically in markets where goods or services are being bought and sold. ... Labour economics seeks to understand the functioning of the market for labour. ... Environmental law is a body of law which addresses the system of complex and interlocking rules which seeks to protect from destruction or development certain species or favored natural areas thought to be endangered by human encroachment. ...

Lott is also a well-known author in both academia and in popular culture. He has published over 90 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals related to his research areas, and has authored five books, including More Guns, Less Crime, The Bias Against Guns, and Freedomnomics. Academia is a collective term for the scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole. ... Popular culture (or pop culture) is the widespread cultural elements in any given society that are perpetuated through that societys vernacular language or lingua franca. ... John R. Lott Jr. ... The Bias Against Guns: Why Almost Everything Youve Heard About Gun Control Is Wrong is a book by John Lott, following up on his controversial More Guns, Less Crime. ... Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Dont is a book by John R. Lott, Jr. ...

He is known for taking conservative economic positions on topics regarding the government, politics, and other world issues. A frequent writer of opinion editorials, Lott has become most well-known outside of academic econometrics for his participation in the gun rights debate, particularly his arguments for allowing Americans to freely own and carry guns. He has also been involved in several highly public debates over the integrity of his research, including accusations that he fabricated research and a legal defamation suit against economist Steven Levitt, author of Freakonomics. Gun politics in the United States Constitutional issues The private ownership of guns is an especially contentious political topic in the United States, where the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution states: The meaning of this text remains fiercely debated, with some saying that the amendment only refers to... Steven Levitt Steven Levitt (born May 29, 1967) is prominent American economist best known for his work on crime, in particular on the link between legalized abortion and crime rates. ... Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything is a 2005 book by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner that has been described as melding pop culture with economics. ...

Academic career

Lott studied economics at UCLA, receiving his B.A. in 1980, M.A. in 1982, and Ph.D. in 1984. He spent five years as a visiting professor and as a fellow at the University of Chicago^{[citation needed]}. B. A. redirects here. ... A masters degree is a postgraduate academic degree awarded after the completion of an academic program of one to six years in duration. ... Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph. ... For other uses, see University of Chicago (disambiguation). ...

Lott went on to work at other institutions, including the Yale University School of Law, Stanford, UCLA, the Wharton Business School, Texas A&M University, and Rice University, and was the chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission (1988–1989), before taking a position at the American Enterprise Institute. In 2006, he left AEI^{[citation needed]}. As of 2008, he is a visiting senior research scientist in the University of Maryland Foundation at the University of Maryland, College Park.^[1][2] The Sterling Law Building Sculptural ornamentation on the Sterling Law Building Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. ... Stanford may refer: Stanford University Places: Stanford, Kentucky Stanford, California, home of Stanford University Stanford Shopping Center Stanford, New York, town in Dutchess County. ... The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is a business school at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. The school was founded by Joseph Wharton, who also was one of the founders of Swarthmore College (founded in 1864), in 1881 as the first collegiate business school in the United States. ... Texas A&M University redirects here. ... William Marsh Rice University (commonly called Rice University and opened in 1912 as The William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Letters, Science and Art) is a private, comprehensive research university located in Houston, Texas, United States, near the Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. ... This article needs cleanup. ... The American Enterprise Institutes Logo The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) is a neoconservative think tank, founded in 1943. ... A Visiting Scholar is generally a Professor at another institution that visits a receiving University that hosts the visiting scholar in question where he or she is projected to perform research, teach, and/or lecture on any of the wide array of topics of intellectual pursuit. ... The University of Maryland, College Park (also known as UM, UMD, or UMCP) is a public university located in the city of College Park, in Prince Georges County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C., in the United States. ...

Lott has published over ninety articles in academic journals, as well as five books for the general public. Opinion pieces by Lott have appeared in such places as the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and the Chicago Tribune. Since March 2008 he has been a weekly columnist for Fox News.]].^[3] The Wall Street Journal is an influential international daily newspaper published in New York City, New York with an average daily circulation of 1,800,607 (2002). ... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. ... This just IN !!!:paris hiltons new dog. ... USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. ... // The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois and owned by the Tribune Company. ... Fox News Channels slogan is We Report, You Decide The Fox News Channel is a U.S. cable and satellite news channel. ...

In terms of total academic journal output from 1990 to 2000, John Lott ranks 26th worldwide among economists, and in terms of citations in the same period, he ranks 86th.^[4]

Among economics, law, and business researchers, Lott's research is the seventh most downloaded on the Social Science Research Network.^[5] Nobel laureate Milton Friedman said that "John Lott has few equals as a perceptive analyst of controversial public policy issues."^[6] Newsweek also referred to Lott as "The Gun Crowd's Guru."^[7] Lott is also listed in "Who's Who in Economics."^[8]

Lott's work

Lott has produced research, authored opinions, and stirred up controversy in many areas with his economic analysis of certain issues.

Concealed weapons and crime rate

In his books More Guns, Less Crime and The Bias Against Guns, Lott presents statistical evidence for the claim that allowing adults to carry concealed weapons significantly reduces crime in America. He supports this position by an exhaustive tabulation of various social and economic data from census and other population surveys of individual United States counties in different years, which he fits into a large multifactorial mathematical model of crime rate. His published results generally show a reduction in violent crime associated with the adoption by states of laws allowing the general adult population to freely carry concealed weapons. John R. Lott Jr. ... The Bias Against Guns: Why Almost Everything Youve Heard About Gun Control Is Wrong is a book by John Lott, following up on his controversial More Guns, Less Crime. ... A concealed carry is the right to carry a handgun or other weapon in public in a concealed manner. ... Image:1870 census Lindauer Weber 01. ... Statistical surveys are used to collect quantitative information about items in a population. ... This graph shows the rate of non-fatal firearm-related crime in the United States from 1993 to 2003. ...

The work was immediately controversial, drawing large amounts of support and opposition. Numerous academics praised Lott's methodology, including Florida State University economist Bruce Benson,^[9] Cardozo School of Law professor John O. McGinnis,^[10] and University of Mississippi professor William F. Shughart.^[11] The book also received favorable reviews from academics Gary Kleck, Milton Friedman, and Thomas Sowell.^[12] Florida State University (commonly referred to as Florida State or FSU)[8] is a public research university located in Tallahassee. ... Since its founding in 1976 by Yeshiva University, the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law has gained a national reputation for a top-caliber faculty and an innovative academic program. ... The University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss, is a public, coeducational research university located in Oxford, Mississippi. ... Gary Kleck (born March 2, 1951) is a criminologist at Florida State University who is an expert on the links between guns, violence and gun control laws in the United States. ... Milton Friedman (July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American Nobel Laureate economist and public intellectual. ... Thomas Sowell (born June 30, 1930), is an American economist, political writer, and commentator. ...

Other reviews claimed that there were problems with Lott's model. In the New England Journal of Medicine, David Hemenway argued that Lott failed to account for several key variables, including drug consumption, and that therefore the model was flawed.^[13] Others agreed, and some researchers, including Ian Ayres and John J. Donohue, claimed that the model contained significant coding errors and systemic bias.^[14] Gary Kleck considered it unlikely that such a large decrease in violent crime could be explained by a relatively modest increase in concealed carry,^[15] and others claimed that removing portions of the data set caused the results to change dramatically.^[16] The New England Journal of Medicine (New Engl J Med or NEJM) is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. ...

In 2004, the National Academy of Sciences conducted a review of current research and data on firearms and violent crime, including Lott's work, and found that "there is no credible evidence that 'right-to-carry' laws, which allow qualified adults to carry concealed handguns, either decrease or increase violent crime." James Q. Wilson dissented from that opinion, and while accepting the committee's findings on violent crime in general, he argued that all of the Committee's own estimates confirmed Lott's finding that right-to-carry laws had an effect on murder rate.^[17] President Harding and the National Academy of Sciences at the White House, Washington, DC, April 1921 The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine. ... James Q. Wilson (born May 27, 1931) is the Ronald Reagan professor of public policy at Pepperdine University in California, and a professor emeritus at UCLA. He has a Ph. ...

Referring to the research done on the topic, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that while most researchers support Lott's findings that right-to-carry laws reduce violent crime, some researchers doubt that concealed carry laws have any impact on violent crime, saying however that "Mr. Lott's research has convinced his peers of at least one point: No scholars now claim that legalizing concealed weapons causes a major increase in crime."^[18] The Chronicle of Higher Education is a newspaper that is a source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty and administration. ...

Women's suffrage and government growth

Academics have long pondered why the government started growing precisely when it did. The federal government, aside from periods of wartime, consumed about 2 percent to 3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) up until World War I. It was the first war that the government spending didn't go all the way back down to its pre-war levels, and then, in the 1920s, non-military federal spending began steadily climbing. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal — often viewed as the genesis of big government — really just continued an earlier trend. What changed before Roosevelt came to power that explains the growth of government? Similar changes were occurring around the world. Lott's answer is women's suffrage. ^[19] A good way to analyze the direct effect of women's suffrage on the growth of government is to study how each of the 48 state governments expanded after women obtained the right to vote. Women's suffrage was first granted in western states with relatively few women — Wyoming (1869), Utah (1870), Colorado (1893) and Idaho (1896). Women could vote in 29 states before women's suffrage was achieved nationwide in 1920 with the adoption of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. If women's suffrage increased government, our analysis should show a few definite indicators. First, women's suffrage would have a bigger impact on government spending and taxes in states with a greater percentage of women. And secondly, the size of government in western states should steadily expand as women comprise an increasing share of their population.

Even after accounting for a range of other factors — such as industrialization, urbanization, education and income — the impact of granting of women's suffrage on per-capita state government expenditures and revenue was startling. Per capita state government spending after accounting for inflation had been flat or falling during the 10 years before women began voting. But state governments started expanding the first year after women voted and continued growing until within 11 years real per capita spending had more than doubled. The increase in government spending and revenue started immediately after women started voting.

Media bias and defensive gun use

Lott argues in both More Guns, Less Crime and The Bias Against Guns that media coverage of defensive gun use is rare, noting that in general, only shootings ending in fatalities are discussed in news stories. In More Guns, Less Crime, Lott writes that "[s]ince in many defensive cases a handgun is simply brandished, and no one is harmed, many defensive uses are never even reported to the police". Attempting to quantify this phenomenon, in the first edition of the book, published in May 1998, Lott wrote that "national surveys" suggested that "98 percent of the time that people use guns defensively, they merely have to brandish a weapon to break off an attack." He cited the figure frequently in the media, including publications like the Wall Street Journal^[20] and the Los Angeles Times.^[21] However, critics challenged the statistic, and in the book's second edition, the phrasing was changed to indicate that the percentage came from a study Lott himself had conducted. Critics then contended that he never actually performed the study, and when asked for proof, Lott responded that a bookcase fell on his computer and the documentation of the study was lost.^[22]

Lott defended himself on his website^[23] and continued to cite the statistic.^[24] In 2002, he repeated the study, and reported that brandishing a weapon was sufficient to stop an attack 95% of the time. Other researchers criticized his methodology, saying that his sample size of 1,000 respondents was too small for the study to be accurate and that the majority of similar studies suggest a value between 70 and 80 percent.^[25]

Environmental regulations

Together with John Karpoff and Eric Wehrly at the University of Washington, Lott has worked to show the importance of government regulations through both legal and regulatory penalties and the weaknesses of reputational penalties in reducing pollution.^[26] Firms violating environmental laws suffer statistically significant losses in the market value of firm equity. The losses, however, are of similar magnitudes to the legal penalties imposed; and in the cross section, the market value loss is related to the size of the legal penalty. Air pollution Pollution is the introduction of pollutants (whether chemical substances, or energy such as noise, heat, or light) into the environment to such a point that its effects become harmful to human health, other living organisms, or the environment. ...

Media bias

In work with Kevin Hassett at the American Enterprise Institute, they provided a systematic measure of media bias.[1] They solved the problem of how to objectively measure what the actual news story was and then obtain an objective measure of how it was covered by newspapers. Their results suggest that American newspapers tend to give more positive news coverage to the same economic news when Democrats are in the Presidency than for Republicans. When all types of news are pooled into a single analysis, their results are highly significant. Image File history File links Unbalanced_scales. ...

Affirmative action in police departments

Lott finds that when hiring standards are lowered in the process of recruiting more minority officers, the overall quality of all officers is reduced and crime rates are increased. The most adverse effects of these hiring policies have occurred in the most heavily black populated areas. There is no consistent evidence that crime rates rise when standards for hiring women are changed, and this raises questions about whether norming tests or altering their content to create equal pass rates is preferable. The paper examines how the changing composition of police departments affects such measures as the murder of and assaults against police officers.^[27]

Abortion and crime

In work with John Whitley at the University of Adelaide, Lott has considered crime rates and the possible influence of laws which place abortion decisions with the pregnant person other than boards of physicians. [2] They acknowledge the old 1960s argument that abortion may prevent the birth of "unwanted" children, who would have relatively small investments in human capital and a higher probability of crime. On the other hand, their research suggests that placing the choice of pregnancy termination with the woman rather than a judicial or medical review board correlates with an increase in out-of-wedlock births and single parent families. In turn, they argue that this increase in single parent births implies the opposite impact on investments in human capital (i.e., average investment per child decreases under their argument). Using the correlation between children in poverty and in single parent homes with crime they build an argument that liberalization of abortion laws increased murder rates by around about 0.5 to 7 percent.^[28] Image File history File links Unbalanced_scales. ...

Fluorescent lighting

In June of 2008 an article by Lott about compact fluorescent light bulbs was featured on the FOX News website^[29]. The article was written from the point of view that Congress was making a mistake by mandating the use of compact fluorescent bulbs. Lott points to the EPA estimates of the health hazards associated with compact fluorescent lamps and that the costs of cleaning up broken bulbs far outweigh the benefits. His reasons include: that the costs of compact fluorescent bulbs largely balance off their increased life expectancy, but that the EPA claims that compact fluorescent bulbs are dangerous if broken, as they can cause mercury poisoning in those who breath the air near a broken bulb, and that the bulbs are difficult to dispose of and transport. Lott blames the Democratic congress for the decision, saying: Compact fluorescent light bulb A compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL bulb) is a type of fluorescent lamp which screws into a regular light bulb socket, or plugs into a small lighting fixture. ... EPA redirects here. ... It has been suggested that Acrodynia be merged into this article or section. ...

"When one looks at the problems with these bulbs, it becomes very understandable why people aren’t rushing to own them. Possibly people are a little smarter than the Democrat controlled congress that passed these rules."

Other areas

Lott has done research showing that most of the large recent increases in campaign spending for state and federal offices can be explained by higher government spending.^[30] Lott has also done research finding that higher quality judges, measured by their output once they are on the court (e.g., number of citations to their opinions or number of published opinions), take much longer to get confirmed.^[31]

Lott has examined the beneficial aspects of government deregulation of various areas, and has also been published in the popular press taking positions in support of the U.S. Republican Party and President George W. Bush on topics such as the validity of the 2000 Presidential Election results in Florida.^[32] This article is about the modern United States Republican Party. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America, originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ... (Redirected from 2000 Presidential Election) Map The U.S. presidential election of 2000 took place on Election Day, Tuesday, November 7. ... This article is about the U.S. State of Florida. ...

Controversy

Defamation suit

On April 10, 2006, John Lott filed suit^[33] against Steven Levitt and HarperCollins Publishers for defamation. In the book Freakonomics, Levitt and coauthor Stephen J. Dubner claimed that the results of Lott's research in More Guns, Less Crime had not been replicated by other academics. In a series of email communications to an economist, John McCall, who pointed to a number of papers in different academic publications that had replicated Lott's work, Levitt said that Lott's work in a special 2001 issue of the Journal of Law and Economics had not been peer reviewed, Lott had paid the University of Chicago Press to publish the papers, and that papers with results opposite of Lott's had been blocked from publication in that issue.^[34] is the 100th day of the year (101st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Collins was a Scottish printing company founded by a schoolmaster, William Collins, in Glasgow in 1819. ... Slander and Libel redirect here. ... Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything is a 2005 book by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner that has been described as melding pop culture with economics. ... Stephen J. Dubner (born 1963) is an American journalist who has written three books and numerous articles. ...

A federal judge found that Levitt's claim in Freakonomics was not defamation,^[35] but Levitt settled the second defamation claim by admitting in a letter to John McCall that he himself was a peer reviewer in the 2001 issue of the Journal of Law and Economics, that Lott had not engaged in bribery, and that he knew that "scholars with varying opinions" had been invited to participate.^[36]

Lott appealed the dismissal of the first count of defamation, but his appeal was rejected, with the judge noting that “Lott persists in the same "lawyering" and "gamesmanship" for which he was sharply criticized by the District Court.”^[37]

Anti-gun group posing as Lott on website and emails

An anti-gun organization set up a website pretending to be run by Lott.^[38] The website was run and emails sent out under Lott's name to claim that Lott opposed legislation designed to limit suits against gun makers and that Lott had reconsidered his position on how individuals could sell guns, positions that Lott had not taken.^[39] "E-mails from visitors questioning whether or not the site was actually run by Lott were responded to with messages signed by 'John Lott,' arguing that the site was, in fact, run by the academic well known for his research into the reductions in violent crime resulting from citizens carrying concealed handguns. But comments on the site and claims made in e-mails purportedly from Lott were inconsistent with his research and beliefs."^[40]

Mary Rosh online persona

In early 2003, some critics suggested that Lott had created and used "Mary Rosh" as a fake persona to defend his own works on Usenet and elsewhere. After three years of investigative work by blogger Julian Sanchez, Lott immediately admitted to use of the Rosh persona, but insists that he had not done anything academically unusual, let alone unprofessional.^[41] A sock puppet, after which internet sock puppets are named. ... Usenet (USEr NETwork) is a global, decentralized, distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name. ... Julian Sanchez is a libertarian writer living in Washington, DC. He first came to public attention in 2003 when he helped to expose gun control critic John Lott for defending himself in online forums using an assumed identity. ...

Lott's opponents, however, maintain that several uses of his nom de plume transgressed normal practice, arguing that he praised himself while posing as one of his former students,^[42][43] and that "Rosh" was used to post a favorable review of More Guns, Less Crime on Amazon.com. Lott has claimed that the "Rosh" review was written by his son and wife.^[43] A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author. ... Amazon. ...

Bibliography

• Are Predatory Commitments Credible? (ISBN 0-226-49355-5)
• More Guns, Less Crime (ISBN 0-226-49364-4)
• The Bias Against Guns (ISBN 0-89526-114-6)
• Straight Shooting (ISBN-10: 0936783478)
• Freedomnomics

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External links

Lott's websites

• John Lott's website
• John Lott's Personal Blog
• John Lott's data, available for downloading
• Blog For John Lott's 2007 Book, Freedomnomics

Regarding Lott's research

• John Lott's Research Papers at the Social Science Research Network
• Opinion pieces by Lott in the general press
• National Academy of Science: NAS panel report on right-to-carry laws
• Michelle Malkin: The Other Lott Controversy

Studies based on Lott's gun research

These studies discuss, dispute, replicate or duplicate Lott's gun research

Refereed Articles in Academic Journals.

• Using Placebo Laws to Test “More Guns, Less Crime”
• Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns and Violent Crime: Crime Control Through Gun Decontrol?
• Does the right to carry concealed handguns deter countable crimes?
• Testing for the effects of concealed weapons laws
• David Olson/Michael Maltz, Homicide in Large U.S. Cities
• The Effect of Concealed Weapons Laws: An Extreme Bound Analysis
• Privately Produced general deterence
• Michael Maltz/Joseph Targonski, A Note on the Use of County-Level UCR Data -
• A Note on the Use of County-Level UCR Data: A Response

Publications in student-edited journals

• The Latest Misfires in Support of the “More Guns, Less Crime” Hypothesis
• Confirming More Guns, Less Crime
• Shooting Down the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis.