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Working Papers

2025

1. Understanding Racial Disparities in Criminal Court Outcomes
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)

2018

2. Failing to Follow the Rules: Can Imprisonment Lead to More Imprisonment Without More Actual Crime?
   Discussion Paper Series in Economics, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Economics

2011

3. Sentencing Guidelines and Judicial Discretion: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Human Calculation Errors
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (7)
   See also Journal Article Sentencing Guidelines and Judicial Discretion: Quasi‐Experimental Evidence from Human Calculation Errors, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, John Wiley & Sons (2012) View citations (9) (2012)

Journal Articles

2026

1. Possible effects of cheap fentanyl on drug markets, use, and harm: A theoretical analysis
   Global Crime, 2026, 27, (1), 61-80

2023

2. Federal criminal sentencing: race-based disparate impact and differential treatment in judicial districts
   Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2023, 10, (1), 1-10 View citations (1)
   Also in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2023, 10, (1), 1-1 (2023) View citations (1)
3. Racial Disparities in Criminal Sentencing Vary Considerably across Federal Judges
   Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), 2023, 179, (1), 92-113
4. The thin blue line in schools: New evidence on school‐based policing across the U.S
   Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2023, 42, (4), 941-970 View citations (2)

2022

5. Getting Tough? The Effects of Discretionary Principal Discipline on Student Outcomes
   Education Finance and Policy, 2022, 17, (2), 255-284 View citations (5)
6. Job-Related Programs for People on Supervision: Reframing the Problem
   The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2022, 701, (1), 98-113
7. Letters and cards telling people about local police reduce crime
   Nature, 2022, 603, (7900), 233-235

2019

8. A natural experiment study of the effects of imprisonment on violence in the community
   Nature Human Behaviour, 2019, 3, (7), 671-677 View citations (3)
   Also in Nature Human Behaviour, 2020, 4, (9), 983-983 (2020)

2018

9. Using Longitudinal Self-Report Data to Study the Age–Crime Relationship
   Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2018, 34, (2), 367-396

2015

10. Book Review: The New Scarlet Letter? Negotiating the U.S. Labor Market with a Criminal Record
    ILR Review, 2015, 68, (4), 963-965
11. On the Measurement and Properties of Ambiguity in Probabilistic Expectations
    Sociological Methods & Research, 2015, 44, (4), 636-676

2013

12. Deterability by age
    International Review of Law and Economics, 2013, 36, (C), 70-81 View citations (3)
13. Framing Punishment: Incarceration, Recommended Sentences, and Recidivism
    Journal of Law and Economics, 2013, 56, (2), 301 - 331 View citations (10)

2012

14. Is Plea Bargaining in the “Shadow of the Trial” a Mirage?
    Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2012, 28, (3), 437-454
15. Sentencing Guidelines and Judicial Discretion: Quasi‐Experimental Evidence from Human Calculation Errors
    Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 2012, 9, (2), 291-319 View citations (9)
    See also Working Paper Sentencing Guidelines and Judicial Discretion: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Human Calculation Errors, NBER Working Papers (2011) View citations (7) (2011)
16. The Overall Effect of the Business Cycle on Crime
    German Economic Review, 2012, 13, (4), 436-446 View citations (8)
    Also in German Economic Review, 2012, 13, (4), 436-446 (2012) View citations (5)

2011

17. Location, Location, Location: The Impact of Guideline Grid Location on the Value of Sentencing Enhancements
    Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 2011, 8, (s1), 222-238 View citations (1)

2009

18. Measuring Long Term Individual Trajectories of Offending Using Multiple Methods
    Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2009, 25, (3), 259-286

2007

19. Measuring and Explaining Charge Bargaining
    Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2007, 23, (2), 105-125
20. Revisiting Incapacitation: Can We Generate New Estimates?
    Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2007, 23, (4), 259-265
21. Sentencing Using Statistical Treatment Rules: What We Don’t Know Can Hurt Us
    Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2007, 23, (4), 377-387

2005

22. Temporal Linkages in Violent and Nonviolent Criminal Activity
    Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2005, 21, (2), 149-174

2003

23. Desistance as a Developmental Process: A Comparison of Static and Dynamic Approaches
    Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2003, 19, (2), 129-153

2001

24. Theoretical and Empirical Work on the Relationship Between Unemployment and Crime
    Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2001, 17, (4), 391-407