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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

The Costs and Benefits of Crime Control and Prevention Pre-conference

 

July 23, 2009

 

Philip Cook, Jens Ludwig, Justin McCrary, Organizers

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 22:

 

 6:00 pm          Group Dinner

                        Bambara Restaurant at Hotel Marlowe, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd. (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)

 

THURSDAY, JULY 23:

 

 8:30 am          Coffee and Pastries

 

 9:00 am          Introductions and Introductory Remarks

                                   

 9:15 am          STEVEN DURLAUF, University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER

                        DANIEL NAGIN, Carnegie Mellon

                        Imprisonment and Crime: Evidence, Policy Implications, & Future Research Directions

 

 9:45 am          PETER REUTER, University of Maryland

                        HAROLD POLLACK, University of Chicago

                        Adapting Drug Policy to the Changing Demographics of Abusers

 

10:15 am         Break

 

10:30 am         JOHN DONOHUE, Yale University and NBER

                        Rethinking America's Drug Policy

 

11:00 am         JUSTIN McCRARY, UC, Berkeley and NBER

                        Tradeoffs Between Police and Prisons

 

11:30 am         ANNE PIEHL, Rutgers University and NBER

                        Organizational Requirements for Effective Imposition of Fines and other Alternative Sanctions

 

12:00 n            Lunch

 

 1:00 pm          STEVE RAPHAEL, UC, Berkeley

                        Improving Employment Prospects for Former Prison Inmates: Challenges and Policy

 

 1:30 pm          PHIL COOK, Duke University and NBER

                        Limiting Criminal Opportunities

 

 2:00 pm          SETH SANDERS, Duke University

                        Crime and the Family: Lessons from Teen Chilbearing

 

 2:30 pm          LANCE LOCHNER, University of Western Ontario and NBER

                        Education Policy and Crime  

 

 3:00 pm          Break

 

 3:30 pm          JENS LUDWIG, University of Chicago and NBER

                        BRIAN JACOB, University of Michigan and NBER

                        Housing Policy Effects on Crime

 

 4:00 pm          RICHARD FRANK, Harvard University and NBER

                        TOM McGUIRE, Harvard University

                        Mental Health Treatment and Criminal Justice Outcomes

 

 4:30 pm          CARLOS DOBKIN, UC, Santa Cruz and NBER

                        KITT CARPENTER, UC, Irvine and NBER

                        Alcohol Control Policy and Crime

 

 5:00 pm          JEFFREY GROGGER and JONATHAN GURYAN,

                        University of Chicago and NBER

                        BRENT ROBERTS, University of Illinois

                        Improving Non-Cognitive Skills as a Means of Reducing Adolescent Crime

 

 5:30 pm          Adjourn

 

 

 

 

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