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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2013 Economics of Crime Working Group

Justin McCrary, Jens Ludwig, Philip J. Cook, and Christine Jolls, Organizers

July 25-26, 2013

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Charles AB Meeting Room

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

 

Wednesday, July 24:

6:00 pm

Clambake, Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Boulevard, Cambridge, MA

Thursday, July 25:


8:00 am


Coffee and Pastries


8:30 am


Derek Neal, University of Chicago and NBER
Armin Rick, University of Chicago
The Prison Boom and the Lack of Progress since Smith and Welch

Discussant: Bruce Western, Harvard University



9:30 am


Raymond Fisman, Columbia University and NBER
Yongxiang Wang, University of Southern California
The Mortality Cost of Political Connections

Discussant: Peter Reuter, University of Maryland

10:30 am

Break


11:00 am


Aurelie Ouss, Harvard University
Sensitivity Analyses in Economics of Crime: Do Monitored Suspended Sentences Reduce Recidivism?

Discussant:
Justin Wolfers, University of Michigan and NBER

12:00 pm

Lunch


1:00 pm


Benjamin Lessing, Stanford University
The Logic of Violence in Drug Wars: Cartel-State Conflict in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia

Discussant:
Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, University of Chicago


2:00 pm


Charles Loeffler, University of Pennsylvania
Ben Grunwald, University of Pennsylvania
Tried as an Adult: Evidence of the Crime Effects of Juvenile Transfer Using a Regression Discontinuity Design

Discussant:
Thomas Miles, University of Chicago

3:00 pm

Break

(Last two papers joint with Law and Economics)


3:30 pm


Giovanni Mastrobuoni,
Collegio Carlo Alberto
Crime is Terribly Revealing: An Evaluation of Predictive Policing

Discussant:
Mark Kleiman, University of California at Los Angeles


4:30 pm


Amanda Agan, Princeton University
Sex Offender Registration and Plea Bargaining

Discussant:
John Donohue, Stanford University and NBER

5:30 pm

Adjourn

Friday, July 26:

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

(Morning session joint with Labor Studies)


8:30 am


Yann Algan, Sciences Po
Elizabeth Beasley, Mrs, Sciences Po
The Long-Term Impact of Social Skills Training at School Entry: A Randomized Control Trial

Discussant:
Lawrence Katz, Harvard University and NBER


9:30 am


Keith Finlay, Tulane University
Stigma in the Labor Market

Discussant:
Bentley MacLeod, Columbia University and NBER


10:30 am


Break


11:00 am


Andrea Chandrasekher, University of California at Davis
Police Labor Unrest and Lengthy Contract Negotiations: Does Police Misconduct Increase with Time Spent Out of Contract?

Discussant:
Jeffrey Smith, University of Michigan and NBER

12:00 pm

Lunch


1:00 pm


Claudio Ferraz, PUC-Rio
Bruno O. Vaz, PUC-Rio
State Presence and Urban Violence: Evidence from the Pacification of Rio's Slums

Discussant:
Melissa Dell, Harvard University and NBER

2:00 pm

Alexander Dyck, University of Toronto
Adair Morse, University of Chicago and NBER
Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago and NBER
How Pervasive is Corporate Fraud?

Discussant:
Michael Guttentag, Loyola Law School - Los Angeles

3:00 pm

Gregory DeAngelo, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Emily Owens, Cornell University
Learning the Ropes: Task Specific Experience and the Output of Idaho State Troopers

Discussant:
Steven Raphael, University of California at Berkeley

4:00 pm

Adjourn