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A conviction typically comes with hundreds of dollars in fines and fees. A lot of recent work (e.g. sites.lsa.umich.edu/mgms/wp-conten…) has questioned what this practice achieves. New paper with Sam Norris looks at when lowering fees would be unambiguously better for everyone. 🧵

Meanswear guy is … one of us?

I have a fantastic behavioural/dev/labour student on the market: Deivis Angeli (Deivis Angeli) While a vast literature measures labour market discrimination, Deivis studies the effects of *perceptions* of discrimination on jobseeker behaviour. deivisangeli.github.io/assets/pdfs/An… [1/8]

The Economist recently highlighted research suggesting health risks from first-cousin marriages are minimal, but my latest study, with "Sam" Il Myoung Hwang Deaglan Jakob, tells a different story. It is (surprise!) quite bad for the lifespan of offspring papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

I get that replication is painful, but if you’ve written good code this should only take a day. And if you’ve written good code, then it’s less likely there’s a mistake in your paper.

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That 2/3 of people in the world's most populous country get food through a public distribution system is a thing economists don't talk about as much as you'd expect.

Going to prison has large short-run earnings and employment effects but no long-run effects, pointing to the importance of more upstream challenges, from Andy Garin, Dmitri Koustas, McPherson, Sam Norris, Pecenco, Evan Rose, Yotam ShemTov, and Jeff Weaver nber.org/papers/w32747

Mortality risk is lower while incarcerated, primarily due to lower risk of overdose or murder. In the July issue, by Sam Norris (Sam Norris), Matt Pecenco (Matt Pecenco) and Jeff Weaver (Jeff_Weaver_) zurl.co/RvdE

Officially out in The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) today, we study the effect of incarceration on mortality. Mortality is lower in prison than out, driven by accidents/murders and (to a lesser degree) the poor health care that inmates face after release. My thread from when it was accepted👇

Sam Norris The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) There's an adage inside prisons that prison keeps you young. You've hit the nail on the head for why that's true

Jason Kelce blasts statistics in wild rant: 'Stats are numbers, numbers are nerds, nerds are losers' trib.al/IcQSLpp

Imbens and Angrist (1994)

you can laugh but this is how we build housing

Just published! "Laffer's Day in Court: The Revenue Effects of Criminal Justice Fees and Fines" By Sam Norris (University of British Columbia) & Evan Rose (@uchi_economics)

Study shows incarceration causes short-term earnings drops while in prison (13% in 5 years), but finds no long-term negative effects on employment or wages. Low earnings among formerly incarcerated likely stem from pre-existing factors, not incarceration. econometricsociety.org/publications/e…