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) Revisions Requested at Journal of Urban Economics
• “Murder in the Marketplace” (with V. Biagi and A. Cardazzi; GLO Discussion Paper No. 1569; BAFFI CAREFIN Research Paper No. 239)

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: Italian Migration and the American Mafia” (with M. Anelli and P. Pinotti, draft coming soon)
• “PAIDUP: Planning Analyses of Interventions on Drug Markets in Urban Philadelphia” (Arnold Ventures funded project evaluating recent efforts to disrupt Philadelphia narcotics markets)
• “Who Are Those Peers Really?: Improving our Understanding of Peer Effects in Prison” (with B. Van Tiem, in coordination with Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, proposal approved, data transfers in progress)
• “The Impact of Retaliatory Violence on Homicide Clearence Rates” (with A. Golestani, in coordination with Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office DataLab, analysis in progress)
• “An RCT to improve take up of the Federal Bonding Program among recently released former inmates” (with D. Britto and E. Rackstraw, in coordination with Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, proposal approved, planning efforts in progress)
• “Beyond Opioids: Exploring the Drug Epidemic in the Third Federal Reserve District” (with A. Scavette, prepared for Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia: Community Development Report)

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)