There is enough excellent, cutting-edge research on crime being done by economists that I can easily fill a weekly online seminar and biweekly podcast with those papers. But you'd never know that if you use the NBER mailing list as your primary source of new econ research!

And if you are someone who wants to follow the amazing research economists are doing on crime and the CJ system, well, attend the ViCE seminar or listen to Probable Causation.

The California Policy Lab's UCLA team is hiring a Research Manager, focused on labor economics: capolicylab.org/careers/resear…

Hiring RA to work on various projects w/me starting ASAP. You must have strong STATA, LaTeX & writing skills. Must be authorized to work in US (unfortunately can't sponsor work visa). However, you can work from anywhere. Please email me your CV if interested. Econ RA Listings

Every time I read about another generous funder giving many millions of $$$ to an elite university, I think of the community college I’ve been working with to evaluate the effectiveness of student support programs and how they can’t come up with $50K to hire a student coach. 😩

Advice for expecting parents who could, in theory, breastfeed: this is the sort of note that is helpful to leave in various places around the house for your post-delivery self.

Look at these nice posters UCI made for everyone. ehs.uci.edu/public-health/…

Interesting new post doc opening for students in sociology, psychology, political science, economics, communications, or criminology with an interest in data and social justice. careers.barnard.edu/postings/6535

Meet Hina Usman, a fifth-year PhD candidate in applied microeconomics at UC Irvine, whose essay examined whether economic insecurity fuels racially motivated crimes in the U.S.

Hina will be on the market next year.

My colleague Ana Muñiz has a *trailer* for her latest book, Borderland Circuitry. Interdisciplinary departments are great. youtu.be/fYXsDqWpM3Q

Please help spread the word: June 30th is the deadline to apply for 3 opportunities for funding and to use administrative data for policy-relevant research. Thread (1/5) ➡️CPL Seed Grants ➡️Graduate Fellowships ➡️Life Course Dataset

Huge news! 🎉🥳🍾 "A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime", the handbook I edited with @buonanno_paolo and @paolo_vanin, is coming out this October! #EconTwitter #PoliSciTwitter 🧵 (1/N)

.Federico Masera reviews the recent developments in the econ of policing and discusses the determi/nts of police effectiveness. M.Freedman Dr. Emily Owens & Derek Christopher document the evolution of crime & police in🇺🇸 since the 1980s highlighting city-level heterogeneity (10/N)

UCI Criminology Law and Society is hiring at associate to full. We are interested in people thinking about the limits of formal legal systems and specific policies that can work against systemic anti-Blackness. Advanced assistants welcome. full ad here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF07628

Congratulations to CLS PhD student Justin Sola!

Fantastic new book by Christopher Seeds Assistant Prof ⁦UC Irvine⁩ tells the story of #LWOP How did #PerpetualConfinement become normal in the US? Cover art by writer and artist Spoon Jackson who was sentenced to Life without Parole when he was 20 years old.

AREUEA Junior Scholar @Liebersohn works on housing and task estate markets, and in various topics in retail banking. His recent research on real estate markets are about affordable housing and recent trends in commercial real estate. jackliebersohn.com

(whispers) It's been *really* nice to see the NYT run not one, but two articles on how fines and fees are a major source of regressive taxation financing local governments, but man, my work clearly isn't showing up in google enough.

Two chances to catch our new paper at #NBERSI: Thursday at 4:00 pm in Crime Friday at 10:45 am in Children Happy to be among a really great lineup of other papers! Find the programs and youtube links here👇 nber.org/conferences/si… nber.org/conferences/si…