Local job market conditions & recidivism

This project won the 2014 LIEPP call for project. 

Research team: 

Roberto Galbiati (OSC/Dpt.Eco/SciencesPo)

Aurelie Ouss (U.of Chicago Crime Lab)

Arnaud Philippe (Paris1/CREST)

While theoretically important, the relationship between crime and employment is difficult to measure empirically. This project addresses major identification challenges by exploiting high frequency data of daily online postings on job openings and closings at the county level, merged with individual-level administrative data about all inmates released from French prisons. 

Publications:

Roberto GALBIATI, Aurélie OUSS, Arnaud PHILIPPE, Jobs, News and Re-Offending after incarceration, LIEPP Working paper n° 41, November 2015

Roberto GALBIATI, Paolo BUONANNO, Francesco DRAGO, How much should we trust crime statistics? A comparison between EU and US, LIEPP Working paper n°19, February 2014