John Quiggin concludes that "with a high degree of confidence that no survey was ever undertaken", but suggests that declining ethical standards at the American Enterprise Institute mean that Lott will keep his job for now.
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Ever since Lott started at the American Enterprise Institute there have been people there who have wanted to get rid of him.
I was forwarded a copy of Lott's final email to AEI staff. It suggests that he was abruptly forced to leave:
From: John Lott
Sent: Sun 4/2/2006 4:00 AM
To: Everyone…
Stuart Benjamin writes:
[John Lott's] core thesis, though, was called into doubt by a number of researchers, most prominently in a study (and reply, both complete with data sets) written by Ian Ayres and John Donohue, two top empirical economists. They concluded that the data did not support…