Publications
  1. Juvenile Jails: A Path to the Straight and Narrow or Hardened Criminality?, forthcoming Journal of Law and Economics, November 2009
    Current version: March 2008

  2. Building Criminal Capital Behind Bars: Peer Effects in Juvenile Corrections, with Patrick Bayer and David Pozen, forthcoming Quarterly Journal of Economics
    Current version: February 2007


  3. Crime and Expected Punishment: Changes in Perceptions at the Age of Criminal Majority, Accepted with minor revisions American Law and Economics Review
    Current version: August 2008


  4. Does Capital Punishment Have a 'Local' Deterrent Effect on Homicides?, forthcoming American Law and Economic Review

  5. Criminal Justice Involvement and High School Completion, Journal of Urban Economics, March 2008, 63: 613-630.



    Current Working Papers

  6. Efficiency in Housing Markets: Which Home-Buyers Know How to Discount?, with Erik Hjalmarsson
    Current version: June 2008

  7. Like Godfather, Like Son: Explaining the Intergenerational Nature of Crime, with Matthew Lindquist
    Current version: December 2007


  8. The Voting Behavior of Disenfranchised Felons: Would They Vote if They Could?, with Mark Lopez, Revise and Resubmit Journal of Legal Studies
    Current version:
    May 2008

  9. The Effect of Gun Shows on Gun-Related Deaths: Evidence from California and Texas, with Mark Duggan and Brian Jacob
    Current version: September 2008


  10. The Impact of Social Institution Characteristics on Substance Abuse and Risky Behavior
    Invited Conference Paper: Transdisciplinary Prevention Research Center , Duke University : Reducing Substance Use Initiation Among Adolescents: An Interdisciplinary Conversation, October 2008
    Current version: Coming Soon