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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2015 Economics of Crime Working Group

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

July 23-24, 2015

Longfellow Room
Royal Sonesta Hotel
40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

 

Wednesday, July 22:

6:00 pm


Clambake, Royal Sonesta Hotel

Thursday, July 23:

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

8:30 am

Ben Lessing, University of Chicago
Graham Denyer Willis, Cambridge University
Legitimate Criminals: How to Build a Drug Empire from Behind Bars

Discussant:
Mark Kleiman, University of California at Los Angeles


9:30 am


Christian Dustmann, University College London
Rasmus Landerso, Rockwool Foundation
The Boys are Back in Town: The Effects of Child’s Gender on Young Fathers’ Crime

Discussant: Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

10:30 am

Break


11:00 am


John J. Donohue, Stanford University and NBER
Abhay Aneja, Stanford University
Kyle D. Weber, Stanford University
Do Handguns Make Us Safer? A State-Level Synthetic Controls Analysis of Right-to-Carry Laws

Discussant:
David Rivers, University of Western Ontario

12:00 n

Lunch


1:00 pm


Alexander M. Gelber, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Adam Isen, Department of the Treasury
Judd Kessler, University of Pennsylvania
The Effects of Youth Employment: Evidence from New York City Summer Youth Employment Program Lotteries

Discussant:
Sara Heller, University of Pennsylvania

2:00 pm

Break


2:30 pm


Anita Mukherjee, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Do Private Prisons Distort Justice? Evidence on Time Served and Recidivism

Discussant:
Anne Morrison Piehl, Rutgers University  and NBER


3:30 pm


Jordi Blanes, London School of Economics
Tom Kirchmaier, London School of Economics
The Effect of Police Response Time on Crime Detection

Discussant:
Giovanni Mastrobuoni, University of Essex


4:30 pm


David Powell, RAND Corporation
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, RAND Corporation and NBER
Mireille Jacobson, University of California at Irvine and NBER
Do Medical Marijuana Laws Reduce Addictions and Deaths Related to Pain Killers?

Discussant:
Harold Pollack, University of Chicago

5:30 pm

Adjourn

Friday, July 24:


8:00 am


Coffee and Pastries

Morning session is joint with the Labor Studies group in Ballroom A


8:30 am


Alesha D. Seroczynski, University of Notre Dame
William N. Evans, University of Notre Dame and NBER
Amy Jobst, Thomas N. Frederick Juvenile Justice Center
Luke Horvath, University of Notre Dame
Giuliana Carozza, University of Notre Dame
Reading For Life and Adolescent Re-Arrest: Evaluating a Unique Juvenile Diversion Program


9:30 am


Stephen B. Billings, University of North Carolina Charlotte
Kevin Schnepel, The University of Sydney
Life Unleaded: Effects of Early Interventions for Children Exposed to Lead


10:30 am


Ignacio Munyo, Universidad de Montevideo
Martín Rossi, Universidad de San Andres
Real Exchange Rate, the Wage Gender Gap and Domestic Violence


11:30 am


Stephen B. Billings, University of North Carolina Charlotte
David J. Deming, Harvard University and NBER
Stephen Ross, University of Connecticut
Partners in Crime: Schools, Neighborhoods and the Formation of Criminal Networks

12:30 pm

Lunch


1:30 pm


John MacDonald, University ot Pennsylvania
Jeffrey Fagan, Columbia University
Amanda Geller,
New York University
The Effects of Local Police Surges on Crime and Arrests in New York City

Discussant:
Justin McCrary, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

2:30 pm

Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University and NBER
Jeffrey Miron, Harvard University and NBER
A Tale of Two Crises: Did HIV/AIDS Help Fuel the Crack Epidemic?

Discussant:  Paul Heaton, RAND Corporation


3:30 pm


Crystal Yang, Harvard University
Resource Constraints and the Criminal Justice System: Evidence from Judicial Vacancies

Discussant:
Tom Miles, University of Chicago

4:30 pm

Adjourn