SI 2018 Crime

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

July 26-27, 2018

Longfellow Room

Royal Sonesta Hote, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Wednesday, July 25
6:00 pm
Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Thursday, July 26
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am
Christopher Blattman, University of Chicago and NBER
Donald Green, Columbia University
Daniel Ortega, Instituto de Estudios Superior de Administracion
Santiago Tobón, Universidad EAFIT

Place-Based Interventions at Scale: The Direct and Spillover Effects of Policing and City Services on Crime
9:30 am
Max Kapustin, Cornell University and NBER
Terrence Neumann, University of Texas, Austin
Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago and NBER

Crime in Chicago
10:30 am
Cheng Cheng, Amazon
Wei Long, Tulane University

The Spillover Effects of Highly Publicized Police-Related Deaths on Policing and Crime: Evidence from Large U.S. Cities
11:30 am
Randi Hjalmarsson, University of Gothenburg
Anna Bindler, University of Cologne

The Impact of the First Professional Police Forces on Crime
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
Marcin Kacperczyk, Imperial College London
Emiliano Pagnotta, Singapore Management University

Inside Insider Trading
2:30 pm
Lucia PM. Rizzica, Bank of Italy
Sauro Mocetti, Dr., Bank of Italy
Litterio Mirenda, Bank of Italy

The Real Effects of 'Ndrangheta: Firm Level Evidence
3:30 pm
Sam Norris, University of British Columbia

Judicial Errors: Evidence from Refugee Appeals
4:30 pm
Jonah Gelbach, University of California at Berkeley

Search Distaste at the Highway Stop Level (slides)
5:30 pm
Adjourn
Friday, July 27
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning starts with Labor Studies in the Ballroom
8:30 am
Abhay Aneja, University of California, Berkeley
Carlos Avenancio, University of California, San Diego

Credit-Driven Crime Cycles: The Connection Between Incarceration and Access to Credit
9:30 am
Alicia S. Modestino, Northeastern University

How Do Summer Youth Employment Programs Improve Criminal Justice Outcomes, and for Whom?
10:30 am
Anna Bindler, University of Cologne
Nadine Ketel, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Scaring or Scarring? Labour Market Effects of Criminal Victimisation
Labor Studies ends and Crime continues
11:30 am
Bryan Stuart, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Evan J. Taylor, University of Arizona

The Effect of Social Connectedness on Crime: Evidence from the Great Migration
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
Amanda Agan, Cornell University and NBER
Michael D. Makowsky, Clemson University

The Minimum Wage, EITC, and Criminal Recidivism (slides)
2:30 pm
Benjamin Hansen, University of Oregon and NBER
Keaton S. Miller, University of Oregon
Caroline Weber, University of Kentucky

The Grass is Greener on the Other Side: How Extensive is the Interstate Trafficking of Recreational Marijuana?
3:30 pm
Manudeep Bhuller, University of Oslo
Gordon Dahl, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Katrine V. Løken, Norwegian School of Economics
Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago and NBER

Incarceration Spillovers in Criminal and Family Networks
4:30 pm
Adjourn