SI 2024 Economics of Crime
Organized by Jens Ludwig and Crystal Yang
Supported by Arnold Ventures
July 25-26, 2024
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and zoom.us
Thursday, July 25
7:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Law and Economics
9:00 am

Community Engagement and Public Safety: Evidence from Crime Enforcement Targeting Immigrants

Elisa Jácome, Northwestern University and NBER
Felipe M. Gonçalves, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Emily K. Weisburst, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

Discussant:
Bocar A. Ba, Duke University and NBER
10:00 am

Driving Change: Evaluating Connecticut's Collaborative Approach to Reducing Racial Disparities in Policing (slides)

Susan T. Parker, Northeastern University
Matthew B. Ross, Northeastern University
Stephen Ross, University of Connecticut and NBER

Discussant:
Benjamin Feigenberg, University of Illinois Chicago and NBER
11:00 am
Break
11:15 am

Judging Disparities: Recidivism Risk, Image Motives, and In-Group Bias on Wisconsin Criminal Courts (slides)

Elliott Ash, ETH Zurich
Claudia Marangon, Harvard University

Discussant:
Marit Rehavi, University of British Columbia
12:15 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

Victims of Crime

Christian Dustmann, University College London
Mikkel Mertz, The Rockwool Foundation
2:00 pm

The Economic Costs of Rape (slides)

Abi Adams-Prassl, University of Oxford
Kristiina Huttunen, Aalto University
Emily E. Nix, University of Southern California and NBER
Ning Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
3:00 pm
Break
3:15 pm

Do Teams Perform Differently Under Black and Hispanic Leaders? Evidence from the Chicago Police Department

Matthew Gudgeon, Tufts University and NBER
Andrew Jordan, Washington University in St. Louis
Taeho Kim, University of Toronto
4:15 pm

Neighbors

Valentina Duque, American University and NBER
Michael Gilraine, Simon Fraser University and NBER
Fabio Sanchez, Universidad de los Andes
5:15 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Group Dinner at State Park Bar - One Kendall Square
Friday, July 26
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
The following paper will not be available on Youtube.
8:30 am

Does Wealth Inhibit Criminal Behavior? Evidence from Swedish Lottery Winners and Their Children

David Cesarini, New York University and NBER
Adam Isen, Johns Hopkins University
Erik Lindqvist, Stockholm University
Robert Östling, Stockholm School of Economics
Christofer Schroeder, European Central Bank
9:30 am

Deliver Us from Crime? Online Platforms, Gig Jobs, and Offending.

Olivier Marie, Erasmus University Roterdam
José De Sousa, University of Paris Pantheon-Assas
Grazia Cecere, Institut Mines Telecom
Hugo Allouard, Université Paris-Saclay
Ines Estel. Picard, CREST-GENES-Institut Polytechnique de Paris
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am

Crime and Basic Skills

Stephen Machin, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Sandra McNally, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Matteo Sandi, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
11:45 am

Informal Social Control: A Randomized Experiment

Christoph Engel, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Daniel S. Nagin, Carnegie Mellon University
12:45 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm

Does Neighborhood Investment Actually Affect Crime? New Evidence from Low Income Housing Tax Credit program (LIHTC) and Smartphone-based Measures of Policing

Yilin Zhuo, University of California, Los Angeles
Emily G. Owens, University of California, Irvine
M. Keith Chen, University of California, Los Angeles
3:00 pm
Adjourn