SI 2025 Economics of Crime
Organized by Jens Ludwig and Crystal Yang
Supported by Arnold Ventures
July 24-25, 2025
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd, Cambridge, MA
Format: Authors will be given the full hour of each session, with questions during the presentation.

Thursday, July 24

8:15 am

Coffee and Pastries

Morning Joint with Law and Economics

8:45 am

Selection Bias and Racial Disparities in Police Use of Force

Felipe M. Gonçalves, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Steven Mello, Dartmouth College and NBER
Emily K. Weisburst, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

9:45 am

Prose and Cons: Measuring Policing Disparities with Text Data

David Abrams, University of Pennsylvania
Jonathan Choi, Washington University in St. Louis

10:45 am

Break

11:00 am

What is the Best Response? Examining the Impact of Police and Their Alternatives

Bocar A. Ba, Duke University and NBER
Patton Chen, Duke University
Tony Cheng, Duke University
Martha C. Eies, Duke University
Justin E. Holz, University of Michigan

12:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm

Revisiting the Lasting Effects of Incarceration

John E. Humphreis, Yale University and NBER
Cécile Macaire, Yale University
Aurelie Ouss, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Megan T. Stevenson, University of Virginia
Winnie van Dijk, Yale University and NBER

2:00 pm

The Universal Pursuit of Safety and the Demand for (Lethal, Non-Lethal or No) Guns

Marcella Alsan, Harvard University and NBER
Joshua Schwartzstein, Harvard University
Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER

3:00 pm

Break

3:15 pm

The Effects of Street Cleaning on Serious Crime and Gun Violence: A Block Randomized Controlled Trial

John MacDonald, University of Pennsylvania
Wilson Hernández Breña, University of Pennsylvania
Anthony Braga, University of Pennsylvania
Charles Branas, Columbia University

4:15 pm

Adjourn

6:00 pm

Group Dinner - Location TBA

Friday, July 25

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

8:30 am

"A Danger to Self and Others:" Involuntary Hospitalization's Health and Criminal Consequences

Natalia Emanuel, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Valentin Bolotnyy, Stanford University
Pim Welle, Stanford University

9:30 am

Women Behind Bars: Do Gender-Specific Prisons Reduce Recidivism?

Gianmarco Daniele, Bocconi University
Francesca Calamunci, University "La Sapienza" of Rome
Giovanni Mastrobuoni, Collegio Carlo Alberto
Daniele Terlizzese, Banca d'Italia

10:30 am

Break

10:45 am

The Impacts of Parole Supervision

Luke D. Brinkman, Washington University in St. Louis
Andrew Jordan, Washington University in St. Louis
Derek Neal, University of Chicago and NBER

11:45 am

The Fragility of Social Norms: Evidence from a Youth Reformative Training Center

Kaiwen Leong, Griffith University
Huailu Li, Fudan University
Linh T. Tô, Boston University

12:45 pm

Lunch

2:00 pm

School Re-enrollment and Crime Prevention: The Role of Centralized Dropout Monitoring Systems

Manuel Alcaino, UNESCO Statistics
Raimundo Undurraga, Universidad de Chile

3:00 pm

A Second Chance at Schooling? Unintended Consequences of Prison Education

Romaine A. Campbell, Cornell University
Logan M. Lee, Grinnell College

4:00 pm

Adjourn