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. 

  • This paper was awarded the "Wissenschaftspreis Opferschutz 2023" by WEISSER RING and Bundeskriminalamt; more information here (in German).

  • This paper was awarded the H. Gregg Lewis Prize 2024 by the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE) for the best paper published in the Journal of Labor Economics in 2022 and 2023.

• 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.