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Aurélie Ouss

Affiliated Researcher

The Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP)

Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania

Discipline(s): Economy

Research Group(s): Discriminations and Category-Based Policies

Biography

Aurélie Ouss is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research examines how good design of criminal justice institutions and policies can make law enforcement fairer and more efficient. She has published studies in several journals, including Science, the Journal of Political Economy, the Economic Journal, and the Journal of Legal Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, a Masters in Economics from the Paris School of Economics and a B.A. in Econometrics and Sociology from Ecole Normale Superieure. She came to Penn after a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago Crime Lab.

Contributions: 

Discriminations and Category-Based Policies Seminar : Prosecutor discretion in courtroom workgroups, October 6th 2022.

Interview with Aurélie Ouss :  Evaluer les politiques pénales en France et aux Etats-Unis (November 2022). 

publications

Articles and Contributions to Collective Works