NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2008

 

Economics of Crime Working Group

 

July 24, 2008

 

Philip Cook, Jens Ludwig and Justin McCrary, Organizers

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Skyline Suite CDE, West Tower

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, JULY 24

 

 

 8:15 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 8:45 am

IAN AYRES, Yale University and NBER

 

ISRA BATTY, Yale University

 

Using Dollar Severity Weights to Provide a Better Aggregate Assessment of Crime Trends

 

 

 

Discussant: PHILIP COOK, Duke University and NBER

 

 

 9:45 am

Break

 

 

10:00 am

CHRISTOPHER CARPENTER, UC, Irvine and NBER

 

CARLOS DOBKIN, UC, Santa Cruz and NBER

 

The Drinking Age, Alcohol Consumption, and Crime

 

 

 

Discussant: ANNE PIEHL, Rutgers University and NBER

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

ETHAN COHEN-COLE, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

 

STEVEN DURLAUF, University Of Wisconsin and NBER

 

JEFFREY FAGAN, Columbia University

 

DANIEL NAGIN, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Model Uncertainty and the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment

 

 

 

Discussant: JOHN DINARDO, University of Michigan and NBER

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

AFTERNOON SESSION JOINT WITH LABOR STUDIES & LAW AND ECONOMICS

 

 

 1:00 pm

BRIAN JACOB, University of Michigan and NBER

 

JENS LUDWIG, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Neighborhood Effects on Crime

 

 

 2:00 pm

Break

 

 

 2:15 pm

ANNA AIZER, Brown University and NBER

 

PEDRO DAL BO, Brown University

 

Love, Hate, and Murder: Commitment Devices in Violent Relationships

 

 

 3:15 pm

Break

 

 

 3:30 pm

RADHA IYENGAR, Harvard University and NBER

 

JONATHAN MONTEN, Harvard University

 

Is there an Emboldenment Effect? Evidence from the Insurgency in Iraq

 

 

 4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 pm

Dinner celebration to thank Martin Feldstein for his service to the NBER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5/20/08