Calendrier du 24 mars 2020
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 24/03/2020 de 17:00 à 18:00
RACHIDI Tobias(PSE)
RACHIDI Tobias(University Bonn)
Committee Search: Evaluating One or Multiple Candidates at a Time?
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 24/03/2020 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
MICHEL Bastien (PSE)
Custodial vs. Non-Custodial Punishments: Measuring the Impact of an Anticipated Reform - REPORTÉ
écrit avec Camille Hemet (ENS, PSE)
We study a reform of the Danish legislation after which most offenders tried for drunk-driving received a non-custodial sanction instead of a custodial one. We show that stakeholders anticipated the consequences of the reform as selection is observed in the nature of the cases tried before and after the reform. To measure its impact, we use an instrumental variable approach exploiting the fact that the closer to the reform a crime was committed, the more likely the defendant was to be tried after. Offenders who received a non-custodial sentence commit fewer crimes and have stronger ties to the labor market.