Misdemeanor prosecution

A Agan, JL Doleac, A Harvey - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Communities across the United States are reconsidering the public safety benefits
of prosecuting nonviolent misdemeanor offenses, yet there is little empirical evidence to …

Internalizing governance externalities: The role of institutional cross-ownership

JJ He, J Huang, S Zhao - Journal of Financial Economics, 2019 - Elsevier
We analyze the role of institutional cross-ownership in internalizing corporate governance
externalities using granular mutual fund proxy voting data. Exploiting within-proposal and …

Reducing crime through environmental design: Evidence from a randomized experiment of street lighting in New York City

A Chalfin, B Hansen, J Lerner, L Parker - Journal of Quantitative …, 2022 - Springer
Objectives This paper offers novel experimental evidence that violent crimes can be
successfully reduced by changing the situational environment that potential victims and …

Early evidence on recreational marijuana legalization and traffic fatalities

B Hansen, K Miller, C Weber - Economic inquiry, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last few years, marijuana has become legally available for recreational use to
roughly a quarter of Americans. Policy makers have long expressed concerns about the …

Diversion in the criminal justice system

M Mueller-Smith, K T. Schnepel - The Review of Economic …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
This article provides the first causal estimates on the popular, cost-saving practice of
diversion in the criminal justice system, an intervention that provides offenders with a second …

Life and death in the fast lane: Police enforcement and traffic fatalities

G DeAngelo, B Hansen - American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014 - aeaweb.org
Simultaneity complicates the estimation of the causal effect of police on crime. We overcome
this obstacle by focusing on a mass layoff of Oregon State Police in February of 2003. Due …

A few bad apples? Racial bias in policing

F Goncalves, S Mello - American Economic Review, 2021 - aeaweb.org
We estimate the degree to which individual police officers practice racial discrimination.
Using a bunching estimation design and data from the Florida Highway Patrol, we show that …

The effects of DNA databases on crime

JL Doleac - American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017 - aeaweb.org
Every US state has a database of criminal offenders' DNA profiles. These databases receive
widespread attention in the media and popular culture, but there has been no rigorous …

Snapping back: Food stamp bans and criminal recidivism

C Tuttle - American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019 - aeaweb.org
I estimate the effect of access to food stamps on criminal recidivism. In 1996, a federal
welfare reform imposed a lifetime ban from food stamps on convicted drug felons. Florida …

Encouraging desistance from crime

JL Doleac - Journal of Economic Literature, 2023 - aeaweb.org
Half of individuals released from prison in the United States will be re-incarcerated within
three years, creating an incarceration cycle that is detrimental to individuals, families, and …