Editing John Lott (section)

==Academic career==

John Lott studied economics at [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]], receiving his [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in 1980, [[Master's degree|M.A.]] in 1982, and [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in 1984. Lott has held positions in law and economics at several institutions, including the [[Yale Law School]], the [[Hoover Institution]], UCLA, the [[Wharton Business School]], [[Texas A&M University]], and [[Rice University]]. Lott was the chief economist at the [[United States Sentencing Commission]]<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/archive/author/john-lott/index.html|title=Dr. John R. Lott Jr.|date=2016-07-27|publisher=Fox News|access-date=2016-07-27}}</ref> (1988–1989). He spent five years at the [[University of Chicago]], as a visiting professor from 1994 to 1995 and as a [[John M. Olin fellow]] from 1995 to 1999. Lott was a resident scholar at the [[American Enterprise Institute]] from 2001 to 2006. He left AEI for [[Binghamton University|SUNY Binghamton]].<ref>[http://johnrlott.tripod.com/Lott_CV_03_08.pdf Curriculum Vitae of John R. Lott Jr., dated March 17, 2008.]</ref> From July 2007 to 2010, Lott was a senior research scientist at the University of Maryland Foundation at the [[University of Maryland, College Park]] and lectured on law and economics.<ref>[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=16317 Social Science Research Network]</ref><ref>[http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/ Blogspot.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

Lott has written op-eds for ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', ''[[The New York Times]]'', the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', ''[[USA Today]]'', and the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''. Since 2008, he has been a columnist for [[Fox News]], initially weekly.<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/column_archive/0,2976,198,00.html Fox News]</ref><ref name=":0" />