NATIONAL BUREAU of ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2010

 

Economics of Crime Working Group

 

Philip Cook, Jens Ludwig and Justin McCrary, Organizers

 

July 30-31, 2010

 

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Skyline DE

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

  

FRIDAY, JULY 30:

 

 

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

8:30 am

William Brock, University of Wisconsin

 

Jane Cooley, University of Wisconsin

 

Steven Durlauf, University of Wisconsin

 

Salvador Navarro, University of Wisconsin

 

On the Observational Implications of Taste-Based Discrimination in Racial Profiling

 

Discussant:  Jonah Gelbach, University of Arizona

9:30 am

Break

9:45 am

David Deming, Harvard University

 

Better Schools, Less Crime?

 

Discussant: Giovanni Mastrobuoni, Collegio Carlo Alberto

10:45 am

Break

11:00 am

Stephen Machin, University College London

 

Olivier Marie, Maastricht University

 

Suncic Vijic, London School of Economics

 

The Crime Reducing Effect of Education

 

Discussant: Andrea Cann Chandrasekher, Northwestern University

12:00 n

Lunch

1:00 pm

James Heckman, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Lena Malofeeva, University of Arizona

 

Rodrigo Pinto, University of Chicago

 

Peter Savelyev, University of Chicago

 

Understanding the Mechanisms Through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes

 

Discussant: Ken Dodge, Duke University

2:00 pm

Angela Duckworth, University of Pennsylvania

 

Ralf Loeber, University of Chicago

 

Magda Loeber, University of Chicago

 

Donald Lynam, University of Kentucky

 

Sergio Urzua, Northwestern University

 

Avshalom Caspi, Duke University

 

Terri Moffit, Duke University

 

Nice Guys Finish First: Big Five Agreeableness Predicts Positive Life Outcomes Among Inner-City Boys

 

Discussant: Daniel Nagin, Carnegie Mellon University

3:15 pm

Break

3:30 pm

Charles Loeffler, Harvard University

 

The Effects of Imprisonment on Labor Market Participation

 

Discussant: Steven Raphael, UC,-Berkeley

4:30 pm

David Abrams, University of Pennsylvania

 

Building Criminal Capital versus Specific Deterrence: The Effect of Incarceration Length on Recidivism

 

Discussant: Shawn Bushway, State University of New York, Albany

5:30 pm

Adjourn

6:00 pm

Dinner
Legal Sea
Foods at Kendall Square

 

 

 

SATURDAY, JULY 31:

8:00 am

Coffee and pastries

8:30 am

Jerome Adda, European University Institute

 

Brendon McConnell, University College London

 

Imran Rasul, University College London

 

Crime and the decriminalization of cannabis : Evidence from a localized policing experiment

 

Discussant: Peter Reuter, University of Maryland

9:30 am

Break

9:45 am

Thomas Loughran, University Of Southern Florida

 

Greg Pogarsky, State University of New York, Albany

 

Alex Piquero, Florida State University

 

Raymond Paternoster, University of Maryland

 

Reassessing the Certainty Effect in Deterrence Theory Using Insight from Prospect Theory

 

Discussant: Mark Kleiman, UC, Los Angeles

10:45 am

Break


11:00 am

Shamena Anwar, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Patrick Bayer, Duke University and NBER

 

Randi Hjalmarsson, Queen Mary, University of London

 

Jury Discrimination

 

Discussant: Christopher Winship, Harvard University

12:00 n

Lunch