working papers

• Dissecting Demand-Side Welfare Manipulation [March 2025], joint with Jaime Millán-Quijano [submitted]


• Beyond Hot Spots: Enhancing Police Effectiveness by Incorporating a Spatial Network Approach [March 2025], joint with Corrado Giulietti and Yves Zenou [submitted]


• On the Marriage Wage Premium [February 2025], joint with Arnau Valladares-Esteban [submitted]


• It Takes a Village: The Impact of the New York City Community School Initiative on Student Behavior [October 2024], joint with Parunjodhi Munisamy and Mariyana Zapryanova [presentation mode]


• The Reluctant Bureaucrat: Decision-Making and Justification in Shifting Legal Contexts [September 2024], joint with Isaac Dalke [under review]


• Kicking You When You're Already Down: The Multipronged Impact of Austerity on Crime [April 2024], joint with Corrado Giulietti [presentation mode]


• Can't see the Forest for the logs: On the Perils of using Difference-in-Differences with a log-Dependent Variable [February 2024]


• Do Homebuyers Value Energy Efficiency? Evidence From an Information Shock [January 2024], joint with Arpita Ghosh and Jaime Millán-Quijano [presentation mode]


• Do Employers Positively Discriminate Married Workers? [January 2023], joint with Arnau Valladares-Esteban [presentation mode]


• Racial Sentencing Disparities and Differential Progression Through the Criminal Justice System: Evidence From Linked Federal and State Court Data [April 2022] [foundation-level reworking]

selected active projects

• House Prices and Homicides, joint with Corrado Giulietti [mid-way]


• An Alternative Approach to Measuring Assortative Matching, sole-authored [mid-way]


• The Changing Relationship Between Crime and Deprivation, sole-authored [mid-way]


• Measuring The Social Costs of Homicides Using Subjective and Objective Measures, joint with Arpita Ghosh and Corrado Giulietti [mid-way]

older working papers

• The Result of 11+ Selection: An Investigation into Opportunities and Outcomes for Pupils in Selective LEAs [April 2007], joint with Adele Atkinson and Paul Gregg. A slightly older version is available as CMPO Working Paper 06/150 {to rise again}

Revise & Resubmit

• Do Remote Workers Deter Neighborhood Crime? Evidence from the Rise of Working from Home [November 2023], joint with Jesse Matheson, James Rockey, and Argyris Sakalis [R&R, Review of Economic Studies]
  media: [NYT] [guardian]


• More Powerful Cluster Randomized Control Trials [April 2024], joint with Marcos Vera-Hernández [R&R, Economic Development and Cultural Change]
  Companion R package for the project: Optimal.sample

Journal Articles

• How do Parole Boards Respond to Large, Societal Shocks? Evidence from the 9-11 Terrorist Attacks [2024], joint with Kegon Teng Kok Tan and Mariyana Zapryanova
  Journal of Public Economics (Forthcoming)


• Contagious Animosity in the Field: Evidence from the Federal Criminal Justice System [2021] , joint with Imran Rasul
  Journal of Labor Economics vol. 39, 739-85, (2021)


• Racial and Ethnic Sentencing Differentials in the Federal Criminal Justice System [2018], joint with Imran Rasul
  AEA Papers and Proceedings vol. 108, 241-245 (2018)


• Crime and the Depenalization of Cannabis: Evidence from a Policing Experiment [2014], joint with Jérôme Adda and Imran Rasul
  Journal of Political Economy vol. 122(5), 1130-1202 (2014)
  View a short film made about the paper


• Modelling the Effect of Pupil Mobility on School Differences in Educational Achievement, joint with Simon Burgess and Harvey Goldstein
  Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, vol. 127(4), 941-954 (2007)


• Girls Rock, Boys Roll: An Analysis of the Age 14-16 Gender Gap in English Schools, joint with Simon Burgess, Carol Propper, and Deborah Wilson,
  Scottish Journal of Political Economy, vol. 51(2), 209-229 (2004)

Book Chapters

• The Impact of School Choice on Sorting by Ability and Socio-Economic Factors in English Secondary Education, joint with Simon Burgess, Carol Propper and Deborah Wilson
  Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem, MIT Press (2007). ISBN-13: 978-0-262-23257-9

/now

Reading: really enjoyed Grace Blakeley's Vulture Capitalism, which made me realise I never got through Naomi Klein's Shock Doctorine. Similar vibes.
Riding: right now a Ribble one-two: r872 for the hills and hybrid AL for commuting. The hybrid is way more fun to ride than it looks.
Doing: trying to do enough gardening to justify my niwaki gear
Cooking: still loving Madhur Jaffrey
Listening to [music-wise]: the new Four Tet -- three
Listening to [podcast-wise]: can't get enough of Rick Rubin's tetragrammaton podcast right now. Super eclectic, quite long, totally amazing.

contact

email: brendon dot mcconnell at city dot ac dot uk