SI 2017 Crime

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

July 27-28, 2017

Longfellow Room

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Wednesday, July 26
6:00 pm
Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Thursday, July 27
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am
Jennifer Doleac, Arnold Ventures
Anita Mukherjee, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Moral Hazard of Lifesaving Innovations: Naloxone Access, Opioid Abuse, and Crime
9:30 am
Abby Alpert, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
David Powell, RAND Corporation
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, University of Southern California and NBER

Supply-Side Drug Policy in the Presence of Substitutes: Evidence from the Introduction of Abuse-Deterrent Opioids
10:30 am
Break
Joint Paper with Law and Economics
11:00 am
Beau Kilmer, Rand Corporation
Greg Midgette, University of Maryland

Using Certainty and Celerity to Deter Crime
12:00 noon
Lunch
1:00 pm
David Abrams, University of Pennsylvania
Ryan Fackler, University of Pennsylvania

To Plea or Not to Plea: Evidence from North Carolina
2:00 pm
Michael Chirico, University of Pennsylvania
Robert P. Inman, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Charles Loeffler, University of Pennsylvania
John MacDonald, University of Pennsylvania
Holger Sieg, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

Procrastination and Property Tax Compliance: Evidence from a Field Experiment
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Aurelie Ouss, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Anuj K. Shah, University of Chicago
Alissa Fishbane, ideas42

Beyond Bail: Using Behavioral Science to Improve Timely Court Appearance
4:30 pm
Adjourn
5:00 pm
Methods Lecture, John M. Abowd, U.S. Census Bureau and NBER
Data Matching
Ballroom B
Friday, July 28
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Joint morning session with Labor Studies in Ballroom A
8:30 am
Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Duke University and NBER
Rodrigo R. Soares, Institue of Labor Economics
Gabriel Ulyssea, University College London

Economic Shocks and Crime: Evidence from the Brazilian Trade Liberalization
9:30 am
Will S. Dobbie, Harvard University and NBER
Hans Grönqvist, Linnaeus University
Susan Niknami, Stockholm University
Mårten Palme, Stockholm University
Mikael Priks, Stockholm University

The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Incarceration
(paper not available for download)
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am
Felipe M. Gonçalves
Steven Mello, Dartmouth College and NBER

A Few Bad Apples? Racial Bias in Policing
12:00 noon
Lunch and return to the Longfellow Room for the afternoon Crime session
1:00 pm
Robert M. Gonzalez, Georgia Institute of Technology
Sarah A G. Komisarow, Duke University

Community Crime Monitoring and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence from Chicago’s Safe Passages Program
2:00 pm
Jordi Blanes, London School of Economics
Giovanni Mastrobuoni, Collegio Carlo Alberto

Police Patrols and Crime
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Daniel S. Nagin, Carnegie Mellon University
Charles F. Manski, Northwestern University and NBER

Assessing the Benefits, Costs, and Disparate Racial Impacts of Confrontational Proactive Policing
4:30 pm
Adjourn