SI 2024 Economics of Crime

Jens Ludwig and Crystal Yang, Organizers

July 25-26, 2024

Longfellow BC

Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, July 25
7:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Law and Economics
9:00 am
Longfellow
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

Community Engagement and Public Safety: Evidence from Crime Enforcement Targeting Immigrants
Discussant: Bocar A. Ba, Duke University and NBER
10:00 am
Longfellow
Susan T. Parker, Northeastern University
Matthew B. Ross, Northeastern University
Stephen Ross, University of Connecticut and NBER

Driving Change: Evaluating Connecticut's Collaborative Approach to Reducing Racial Disparities in Policing (slides)
Discussant: Benjamin Feigenberg, University of Illinois Chicago and NBER
11:00 am
Break
11:15 am
Longfellow
Elliott Ash, ETH Zurich
Claudia Marangon, ETH Zurich

Judging Disparities: Recidivism Risk, Image Motives, and In-Group Bias on Wisconsin Criminal Courts (slides)
Discussant: Marit Rehavi, University of British Columbia
12:15 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
Christian Dustmann, University College London
Mikkel Mertz, The Rockwool Foundation

Victims of Crime
2:00 pm
Abi Adams-Prassl, University of Oxford
Kristiina Huttunen, Aalto University
Emily E. Nix, University of Southern California
Ning Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

The Economic Costs of Rape (slides)
3:00 pm
Break
3:15 pm
Matthew Gudgeon, Tufts University
Andrew Jordan, Washington University in St Louis
Taeho Kim, University of Toronto

Do Teams Perform Differently Under Black and Hispanic Leaders? Evidence from the Chicago Police Department
4:15 pm
Valentina Duque, American University
Michael Gilraine, Simon Fraser University and NBER
Fabio Sanchez, Universidad de los Andes

Neighbors
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
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

Does Wealth Inhibit Criminal Behavior? Evidence from Swedish Lottery Winners and Their Children
9:30 am
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

Deliver Us from Crime? Online Platforms, Gig Jobs, and Offending.
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am
Stephen Machin, London School of Economics
Sandra McNally, London School of Economics
Matteo Sandi, London School of Economics

Crime and Basic Skills
11:45 am
Christoph Engel, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Daniel S. Nagin, Carnegie Mellon University

Informal Social Control: A Randomized Experiment
12:45 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
Yilin Zhuo, University of California at Los Angeles
Emily G. Owens, University of California, Irvine
M. Keith Chen, University of California at Los Angeles

Does Neighborhood Investment Actually Affect Crime? New Evidence from Low Income Housing Tax Credit program (LIHTC) and Smartphone-based Measures of Policing
3:00 pm
Adjourn