#RDDers check it out: "Regression discontinuity design with multivalued treatments" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

I'm looking forward to presenting our work on the Age of Criminal Majority (with Mike Mueller-Smith 🏳️‍🌈 and Caroline Walker)! A summary thread and link to the paper can be found here: x.com/econ_mike/stat…

Thanks Mike Mueller-Smith 🏳️‍🌈! I am so grateful for the support & mentorship my committee (Mike Mueller-Smith 🏳️‍🌈 J.J. Prescott , Brian Jacob , Charlie Brown) and many others have so generously given! I feel very fortunate to have learned from and community with CJARS, U-M Economics & Michigan Law School

While not all retweets may be endorsements, this one most certainly is!

Changes in sanction severity from criminal age-of-majority impact employment and recidivism. Machine learning supports decomposing net regression discontinuity into mechanism-specific treatment effects, from Mike Mueller-Smith 🏳️‍🌈, Benjamin Pyle, and Caroline Walker nber.org/papers/w31523

#ICYMI, the EEOC signed an agreement with the Census Bureau to provide secure access to EEOC data, including workforce demographic data and charge data. Researchers who complete the U.S. Census Bureau vetting process can access and analyze the EEOC data. eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-…

1/2 The following #BULawProf will be sharing their expertise at AALS 2024 Annual Meeting: Dean Angela Onwuachi-Will, Aziza Ahmed, Julie Dahlstrom, @brooklyntaxprof, Jonathan Feingold, Jasmine Gonzales Rose, Ngozi Okidegbe, Ben Pyle, & Jessica Silbey. Find their sessions: spr.ly/6012RXeP4 #BULaw #AALS2024

Banning felony convicts from safety-net assistance reduces long-term SNAP receipt, lowers program take-up for family members, and harms educational outcomes for their children, from Mike Mueller-Smith 🏳️‍🌈, James Reeves, Kevin Schnepel, and Caroline Walker nber.org/papers/w31983

I'm so looking forward to attending the Texas Economics of Crime Workshop (TxECW) this Fri & Sat! Huge thanks to Jamein P. Cunningham & Cody Tuttle for organizing. Check out this terrific program:

First Evidence on the Use of Training Repayment Agreements in the US Labor Force promarket.org/2024/03/27/fir… via ProMarket

Mark your calendars! In just one week from today, May 1st, the Criminal Justice Administrative Records System (CJARS) is launching a game-changing data product, the Justice Outcome Explorer (JOE).

Important data release! I'm looking forward to reading all the analysis and papers that come out of this (and have some ideas for my own)

Just posted: The summer 2024 schedule for the Virtual Crime Economics (ViCE) seminar series! 🤓🥳 jenniferdoleac.com/vice-seminar/

Meet CISS' May faculty affiliate of the month, Ben Pyle (Boston University School of Law)! Prof. Benjamin Pyle teaches and writes in empirical legal studies, employment law, and criminal law - bu.edu/ciss/2024/05/0… University of Michigan Michigan Law School BU Law Review

The next ViCE seminar is this Thursday, June 13, at 1pm ET. Ben Pyle will present: "Negligent Hiring: Recidivism and Employment with a Criminal Record" More info: jenniferdoleac.com/vice-seminar/

📢New Paper📢 After the summer of 2020, news outlets widely reported that cops were quitting in droves and that George Floyd-related activism was a main cause. But we don’t know what really happened without national data. [1]

Ban the box may not actually lead to discrimination against minority men. annemburton.com/pages/working_…

This new working paper argues that Ban the Box policies improve labor market outcomes and lower recidivism for misdemeanor defendants. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

The 19th Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment & Labor Law (COSELL) is fast approaching! Download the program & the abstracts on our website: cosellaw.org/index.html! See you in SD (USanDiegoLaw California Western School of Law) on Sept. 14! Thanks to the organizers Orly Lobel & Susan Bisom-Rapp🙏

Enjoyed moderating a fantastic COSELL panel on empirical approaches to study employment discrimination ft. new WIP by Naomi Schoenbaum Ben Pyle & Heidi Liu of GW Law! Thank you for the photos, Marcy Karin 🙏