2003 PIER Conference on Crime and Public Policy

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PIER Conference
University of Pennsylvania

3620 Locust Walk
1206 Steinberg-Dietrich Hall

Philadelphia, PA
19104

United States


Program

Friday, April 11
2:00-3:15pm Kenneth Burdett, Ricardo Lagos and Randall Wright “An On-the-job Search Model of Crime, Inequality and Unemployment.”
3:15-4:30pm Lance Lochner "Education, Work, and Crime"
4:30-5:00pm Coffee break
5:00-6:15pm Chien-Chieh Huang, Derek Laing and Ping Wang “Crime and Poverty: A Search-Theoretic Approach.”
6:30-9:30pm Conference Party and Dinner at L2 Restaurant
Saturday, September 12
9:00-10:00am Breakfast
10:00-11:15am Antoni Calvo-Armengol and Yves Zenou "Social Networks and Crime Decisions. The Role of Social Structure in Facilitating Delinquent Behavior."
11:15-12:30pm Jan Eeckhout, Nicola Persico and Petra Todd “Crackdowns.”
12:30-2:00pm Lunch
2:00-3:15pm François Bourguignon, Jairo Nuñez and Fabio Sanchez “What Part of the Income Distribution Does Matter for Explaining Crime? The Case of Colombia.”
3:15-4:30pm Dan Silverman “Street Crime and Street Culture”
4:30-5:00pm Coffee break
5:00-6:15pm Susumu Imai and Kala Krishna “Employment, Dynamic Deterrence and Crime.”
6:30-9:30pm Conference Reception and Dinner at Palladium Restaurant
Additional Information  
  Participant List

Organizers: Antonio Merlo and Randall Wright

With support from the James C. Gentle Foundation