Research

Publications

• “Economics of Criminal Governance” with H. Thompson, in Handbook of Labor, Human Resources, and Population Economics, 2024

• “The Right to Counsel: Criminal Prosecution in 19th Century London” with B. McCannon, Economica, 2024
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• “Bride Kidnapping and Informal Governance Institutions”, Contemporary Economic Policy, 2024
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• “Gentrification, Gun Violence, and Drug Markets”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023
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• “Synthetic Difference-In-Differences Estimation With Staggered Treatment Timing”, Economics Letters, 2022
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• “Assessing Ocean Temperature’s Role in Fishery Production”, Journal of Bioeconomics, 2021

Working Papers

• “Identifying the General Equilibrium Effects of Narcotics Enforcement” (GLO Discussion Paper No. 1455; BAFFI CAREFIN Centre Research Paper No. 227; funded by the Institute for Humane Studies under grant number IHS016506)

Other Writing

• “Se il Fentanyl arriva in Europa”(Eco Rivista, 2024, in Italian)
• “Precision policing: The Kensington Initiative’s targeted approach to combating the opioid epidemic”(Commentary for the Niskanen Center, 2024)
• “Policy Brief - Inelastic Demand, Rational Consumers, and Drug Policy” (IEP@BU Policy Brief, 2024)

Works in Progress

• “The Departed: Origins and Persistence of Organized Crime in the United States” (with M. Anelli and P. Pinotti, draft coming soon)
• “Anonymity and Crime: Causal Effects of Mask Mandates and Bans” (with J. Heflin and M. Stockman, draft coming soon)
• “Who Are Those Peers Really?: Improving our Understanding of Peer Effects in Prison” (with B. Van Tiem, proposal submitted)
• “The Impact of Retaliatory Violence on Homicide Clearence Rates” (with A. Golestani, proposal submitted)
• “An RCT to improve take up of the Federal Bonding Program among recently released former inmates” (with D. Britto and E. Rackstraw, proposal submitted)

Resting Papers

• “Three Golden Balls: Pawn Shops and Crime” (with B. McCannon and Z. Rodriguez)
• “A Note on Uncertainty Quantification for Maximum Likelihood Parameters Estimated with Heuristic Based Optimization Algorithms”
• “Letter Grading Government Corruption” (with B. McCannon and A. Tsiukes, potentially just napping)