John J. Donohue III

The bio below comes from a published article and may now be dated.

John Donohue is the Surbeck Professor at Yale Law School. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from Yale in 1986 and a J.D. for Harvard in 1977. He has written extensively on crime and criminal justice policy, and he is the co-editor for empirical issues of the American Law and Economics Review.

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