Research
Publications
“Economics of Criminal Governance” with H. Thompson, forthcoming 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
(Working paper link)“Bride Kidnapping and Informal Governance Institutions”, Contemporary Economic Policy, 2024
(Working paper link)“Gentrification, Gun Violence, and Drug Markets”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023
(Working paper link)“Synthetic Difference-In-Differences Estimation With Staggered Treatment Timing”, Economics Letters, 2022
(Working paper link)“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)