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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2014 Economics of Crime Working Group

Philip Cook, Jens Ludwig, and Justin McCrary, Organizers

July 24-25, 2014

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Charles Rooms AB
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

 

Wednesday, July 23:

6:00 pm

Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel

Thursday, July 24:

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries


8:30 am


Olivier Marie, Maastricht University
Ulf Zoelitz, Maastricht University
“High” Achievers? Cannabis Access and Academic Performance

Discussant:  Brian Jacob, University of Michigan and NBER


9:30 am


Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University
Himabindu Lakkaraju, Stanford University
Jure Leskovec, Stanford University
Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago and NBER
Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University and NBER
Using Big Data to Improve Social Policy


Discussant:  Matthew Harding, Stanford University

10:30 am

Break


11:00 am


David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Christopher Palmer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Parag Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Gentrification and Crime: Evidence from the Elimination of Rent Control in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Discussant:  Ingrid Gould Ellen, New York University

12:00 pm

Lunch


1:00 pm


Ryan Sakoda, Harvard University
Efficient Sentencing? The Effect of Post-Release Supervision on Low-Level Offenders

Discussant:  Seth Sanders, Duke University

2:00 pm

Break


2:30 pm


Paul Heaton, RAND Corporation
Beau Kilmer, RAND Corporation
Nancy Nicosia, RAND Corporation
Deterring Crime in Community Supervision: Evidence from 24/7 Sobriety

Discussant:  Harold Pollack, University of Chicago


3:30 pm


Amalia Miller, University of Virginia and NBER
Carmit Segal, University of Zurich
Do Female Officers Improve Law Enforcement Quality? Effects on Crime Reporting and Domestic Violence Escalation

Discussant:  Justin McCrary, UC-Berkeley and NBER


4:30 pm


Benjamin Lessing, Stanford University
Fernando Hidalgo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Endogenous State Weakness: Paramilitaries and Electoral Politics in Rio de Janeiro

Discussant:  Oeindrila Dube, New York University

5:30 pm

Adjourn

Friday, July 25:

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

Morning joint with Labor Studies


8:30 am


Michael Mueller-Smith, Columbia University
The Criminal and Labor Market Impacts of Incarceration: Identifying Mechanisms and Estimating Household Spillovers


9:30 am


Paolo Pinotti, Bocconi University
Clicking on Heaven's Door: The Effect of Immigrant Legalization on Crime


10:30 am


Mirko Draca, Warwick University
Theodore Koutmeridis, University of St Andrews
Stephen Machin, University College London
The
Changing Returns to Crime: How do Criminals Respond to Changes in Goods Prices?

11:30 am

Roberto Galbiati, CNRS and Sciences Po
Aurelie Ouss, Harvard University
Arnaud Philippe, University of Paris 1 and CREST
Jobs and Re-offending after Incarceration


12:30 pm


Lunch


1:30 pm


Paul Carrillo, George Washington University
Dina Pomeranz, Harvard University and NBER
Monica Singhal, Harvard University and NBER
Dodging the Taxman: Evidence on Firm Misreporting Behavior and Evasion Substitution

Discussant:  Mark Kleiman, University of California at Los Angeles

2:30 pm

Sara Heller, University of Pennsylvania
Jonathan Guryan, Northwestern University and NBER
Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago and NBER
Reducing Juvenile Delinquency: Experimental Evidence from Juvenile Detention

Discussant:  Candice Odgers, Duke University

3:30 pm

Daniel Mejia, Universidad de los Andes
Pascual Restrepo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bushes and Bullets: Illegal Cocaine Markets and Violence in Colombia

Discussant:  Viridiana Rios, Mexico Como Vamos?

4:30 pm

Adjourn