brendon mcconnell

I am an Associate Professor in the Economics Department at City, University of London. My core research focus is on the economics of crime. I am also interested in other areas of applied micro — I currently have work in the areas of both family and environmental economics. Here is my CV and here is my office hour booking link for students.

working papers

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

Revise & Resubmit

Journal Articles

Book Chapters

/now

Reading: completely enthralled by Robert Sapolsky's Behave. Slight bit of information overload, but it's just so good
Riding: been riding my gravel bike more over the colder months, thinking of switching out the drop bars for a flat setup
Doing: trying to do enough gardening to justify my niwaki gear
Cooking: still loving Madhur Jaffrey
Listening to [music-wise]: on the hunt for good new music
Listening to [podcast-wise]: had to take a break from Cal Newport's deep questions when he was plugging his new book, but it may be time to return

contact

email: brendon dot mcconnell at city dot ac dot uk