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Philip J. Cook
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ITT/Sanford Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics and Sociology
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Economics
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215 Sanford Inst Building
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Campus Box 90245
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Phone: (919) 613-7360
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Fax: (919) 681-8288
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Homepage
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Curriculum Vitae
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Specialties
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Research Description
One strand of Dr. Cook's research addresses the prevention of alcohol-related problems through restrictions on alcohol availability. A second strand concerns the economics of crime, with focus on violence. His recent books (with Jens Ludwig) include Gun Violence: The Real Costs (Oxford University Press, 2000), which develops and applies a framework for assessing costs that is grounded in economic theory and is quite at odds with the traditional "COI" framework; and Evaluating Gun Policy (Brookings Institution Press, 2003), an edited collection of original contributions. Dr. Cook has also written on the state lotteries with Charles Clotfelter (Selling Hope: State Lotteries in America, Harvard University Press, 1989), and with Robert H. Frank on the causes and consequences of the growing inequality of earnings (The Winner-Take-All Society, The Free Press, 1995).
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Education
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- PhD (Economics),
- University of California, Berkeley,
- 1973
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- BA (with high distinction),
- University of Michigan,
- 1968
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Awards, Honors and Distinctions
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Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology,
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May 2012
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Raymond Vernon Memorial Prize,
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Association of Public Policy and Management,
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November, 2008
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Richard A. Stubbing Teacher Mentor Award,
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Sanford Institute of Public Policy,
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May 2008
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Member, National Academies Institute of Medicine,
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National Academy of Sciences,
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2001-present
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy,
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2002
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Fellow of the American Society of Criminology,
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2000-present
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Who's Who in America 2001,
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annual
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Recent Publications
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- P.J. Cook, D.C. Gottfredson, and C. Na.
- (2014).
- School crime statistics.
- In G.J.N. Bruinsma and D.L. Weisburd (Eds.),
- Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice
- New York:
- Springer Science+Business Media.
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- P.J. Cook.
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- How we can reduce gun violence.
- Chronicle of Higher Education
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- [web]
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- P.J. Cook and J. Ludwig.
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- The limited impact of the Brady Act: evaluation and implications.
- In Daniel W. Webster and Jon S. Vernick (Eds.),
- Reducing Gun Violence in America
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- Baltimore, MD:
- JHU Press.
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- P.J. Cook.
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- Foreward.
- In Brandon C. Welsh, Anthony A. Braga, Gerben J. N. Bruinsma, (Eds.),
- Experimental Criminology: Prospects for Advancing Science and Public Policy
- New York:
- Cambridge University Press.
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- P.J. Cook.
- (December 26, 2012).
- Craig Whitney's Living With Guns.
- New York Times
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