The activity aims to provide students with the opportunity to engage with a research question of their interest and follow, in a guided and simplified way, the typical path of every researcher: from data research to the development of an analytical approach suitable for answering the question. Starting from the themes and methods discussed during the first two modules, students will work in groups to develop a project for analyzing a topic of their interest and will submit a short research plan to the teacher, which will be discussed and presented in class by the students to their colleagues.
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Programme
The evaluation is based on class attendance and participation to the discussion.Core Documentation
There is no textbook, only scientific papers that the instructor will upload to the e-learning platform before the first day of class. These papers are listed below as well as in the syllabus.Reference Bibliography
Immigration and Crime 1. Oliver Marie and Paolo Pinotti. 2024. "Immigration and crime: An international perspective." Journal of Economic Perspectives 38.1 (2024): 181-200. 2. Giovanni Mastrobuoni and Paolo Pinotti. 2015. "Legal status and the criminal activity of immigrants." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 7.2 (2015): 175-206. 3. Pinotti, Paolo. 2017. "Clicking on heaven’s door: The effect of immigrant legalization on crime." American Economic Review 107.1 (2017): 138-168. 4. Pinotti, Paolo. 2015. "Immigration enforcement and crime." American Economic Review 105.5 (2015): 205-209. Education and Crime 1. Stephen Machin and Matteo Sandi. 2024. "Crime and Education." Forthcoming at Annual Review of Economics. 2. Lance Lochner and Enrico Moretti. 2004. "The effect of education on crime: Evidence from prison inmates, arrests, and self-reports." American Economic Review 94.1 (2004): 155-189. 3. Stephen Machin, Olivier Marie, and Sunčica Vujić. 2011 "The crime reducing effect of education." The Economic Journal 121.552 (2011): 463-484. 4. Carmen Villa. 2024. “The effects of youth clubs on education and crime”. No. W24/51. Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2024. Incarceration and Crime 1. Charles E. Loeffler and Daniel S. Nagin. 2022. "The impact of incarceration on recidivism." Annual review of criminology 5.1 (2022): 133-152. 2. Giovanni Mastrobuoni and Daniele Terlizzese. 2022. "Leave the door open? Prison conditions and recidivism." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 14.4 (2022): 200-233. 3. Nadia Campaniello, Theodoros M. Diasakos, Giovanni Mastrobuoni. 2017. “Rationalizable Suicides: Evidence from Changes in Inmates’ Expected Length of Sentence”. Journal of the European Economic Association, 15(2):388-428 4. Francesca Calamunci, Gianmarco Daniele, Giovanni Mastrobuoni and Daniele Terlizzese. 2024. “Women Behind Bars: Do Female-Only Prisons Reduce Recidivism?”. Working Paper. Organized Crime and Corruption 1. Paolo Pinotti. 2015. "The causes and consequences of organised crime: Preliminary evidence across countries." The Economic Journal 125.586 (2015): F158-F174. 2. Gianmarco Daniele and Gemma Dipoppa. 2023. "Fighting organized crime by targeting their revenue: Screening, mafias, and public funds." The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 39.3 (2023): 722-746. 3. Giacomo Battiston, Gianmarco Daniele, Marco Le Moglie, and Paolo Pinotti. 2024. "Fueling Organised Crime: The Mexican War on Drugs and Oil Theft." The Economic Journal (2024): ueae047. 4. Massimo Pulejo and Pablo Querubín. 2024. "Plata y Plomo: How Higher Wages Expose Politicians to Criminal Violence". NBER Working Paper N. 31586.Attendance
In person only. If they cannot join a meeting, students must communicate their absence to the instructor in written.Type of evaluation
The instructor will take not of attendance and participation and, based on these two elements, will decide whether to confer the credits that each module is worth. In addition to that, students will be asked to submit a short document (2-3 pages) where they describe a research question of their interest within the topics discussed during the activity.