Research

Working Papers

• "Women in policing, gender norms and police decisions" (with Randi Hjalmarsson; revise & resubmit) [Working Paper]

• "Murphy's Law or Luck of the Irish? Disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th century courts" (with Randi Hjalmarsson, Stephen Machin and Melissa Rubio; submitted) [CEP Discussion Paper] [ECONtribute Discussion Paper] [CEPR Discussion Paper]

Work in Progress

• "Labor demand and workforce diversity: Evidence from two natural experiments" (with Barbara Boelmann, Lena Janys, and Luisa Santiago Wolf)

•  "The hidden cost of crime: Crime victimization and mental health" (with Juliane Hennecke, Nadine Ketel, Gail Pacheco, and Alexandra Turcu)

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Bindler, Anna, Randi Hjalmarsson, Nadine Ketel and Andreea Mitrut (2024) "Discontinuities in the age-victimisation profile and the determinants of victimisation", The Economic Journal, 134(657): 95-134. 

• Bindler, Anna and Nadine Ketel (2022) "Scaring or scarring? Labour market effects of criminal victimisation", Journal of Labor Economics, 40(4): 939-970. [Awarded the "Wissenschaftspreis Opferschutz 2023" by WEISSER RING and Bundeskriminalamt; more information here (in German).]

• Bindler, Anna and Randi Hjalmarsson (2021) "The impact of the first professional police forces on crime", Journal of the European Economic Association, 19(6): 3063-3103.

• Bindler, Anna and Randi Hjalmarsson (2020) "The persistence of the criminal justice gender gap: Evidence from 200 years of judicial decisions," Journal of Law & Economics, 63(2): 297-339. 

• Bindler, Anna and Randi Hjalmarsson (2019) "Path dependency in jury decision-making", Journal of the European Economic Association, 17(6): 1971-2017. 

• Bindler, Anna and Randi Hjalmarsson (2018) "How punishment severity affects jury verdicts: Evidence from two natural experiments", American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 10(4): 36-78. (A previous working paper version can be found here.)

• Bell, Brian, Anna Bindler and Stephen Machin (2018) "Crime scars: Recessions and the making of career criminals", Review of Economics and Statistics, 100(3): 392-404.

• Bindler, Anna and Randi Hjalmarsson (2017) "Prisons, recidivism and the age-crime profile", Economics Letters, 152: 46-49.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

• Bindler, Anna, Randi Hjalmarsson, and Nadine Ketel (2020) "Costs of Victimization." In: Dave Marcotte and Klaus Zimmermann (eds) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham.

Other Publications

• Bindler, Anna and Randi Hjalmarsson (2022) "Hur strängare straff påverkar sannolikheten för bestraffning", Ekonomisk Debatt, 4/2022.

• Bindler, Anna and Randi Hjalmarsson (2021) "Do police reduce crime? Evidence from the 1829 introduction of the London Metropolitan Police", CAGE Policy Briefing, no.31.