Authors, please upload your paper here.

 

NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SI 2012 Economics of Crime Working Group

 

Philip Cook, Jens Ludwig, and Justin McCrary, Organizers

 

July 26-27, 2012

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Charles A/B

40 Edwin Land Boulevard

Cambridge, MA

 

PROGRAM


Wednesday, July 25:


6:00 pm


Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge


Thursday, July 26:

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries



9:00 am

Morning Crime Session

William Evans, University of Notre Dame and NBER
Craig Garthwaite, Northwestern University and NBER
Timothy Moore, University of Maryland
The White/Black Educational Gap, Stalled Progress, and the Long Term Consequences of the Crack Epidemic

Discussant:  Peter Reuter, University of Maryland


10:00 am


Matthew Freedman, Cornell University
Emily Owens, Cornell University
Your Friends and Neighbors: Localized Economic Development, Inequality, and Criminal Activity

Discussant:  Philip Cook, Duke University and NBER

11:00 am

Break


11:15 am


Daniel Nagin, Carnegie Mellon University
Summary of the NRC report Deterrence and the Death Penalty
(commentary by Guido Imbens and Justin McCrary)

12:45 pm

Lunch



1:45 pm

Afternoon Joint Crime/Law and Economics Session

Dara Lee, University of Missouri-Columbia
The Digital Scarlet Letter: The Effect of Online Criminal Records on Crime and Recidivism

Discussant:  JJ Prescott, University of Michigan

2:45 pm

Break


3:00 pm


Nancy Nicosia, RAND Corporation
John MacDonald, University of Pennsylvania
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, RAND Corporation and NBER
Does Mandatory Diversion to Drug Treatment Eliminate Racial Disparities in the Incarceration of Drug Offenders? An Examination of California's Proposition 36

Discussant:  Patrick Bayer, Duke University


4:00 pm


Jennifer Doleac, Stanford University
The Effects of DNA Databases on Crime

Discussant:  Chris Winship, Harvard University

5:00 pm

Adjourn


Friday, July 27:

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries



9:00 am

Morning Joint Crime/LS Session

Steven Raphael, University of California at Berkeley
Prison and Crime: The Case of California Realignment

9:50 am

Aaron Chalfin, University of California at Berkeley
Justin McCrary, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
The Effect of Police on Crime: New Evidence from U.S. Cities, 1960-2010

10:40 am

Break


11:00 am


Marit Rehavi, University of British Columbia
Sonja Starr, University of Michigan
Racial Disparity in Federal Criminal Charging and Its Sentencing Consequences

11:50 am

Sara Heller, University of Chicago
Harold Pollack, University of Chicago
Roseanna Ander, University of Chicago
Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago
Improving Social-Cognitive Skills Among Youth

12:40 pm

Lunch

Afternoon Crime Session

1:40 pm

Stephen Machin, University College London
Emma Hanes, University College London
Hate Crime in the Wake of Terror Attacks: Evidence From 7/7 and 9/11

Discussant:  Shawn Bushway, SUNY at Albany

2:40 pm

David Skarbek, Duke University
Prison Gangs, Norms, and Organizations

Discussant:  Mark Kleiman, UCLA

3:40 pm

Olivier Marie, Maastricht University
Arnaud Chevalier, Royal Holloway, University of London
Crime after a Fertility Shock: Offending Behaviour of the ‘Children of the Wall’

Discussant: Justin Wolfers, University of Pennsylvania

4:40 pm

Adjourn