Welcome! 

I am an applied microeconomist and received my PhD in Economics from Columbia University in 2018. My prior roles include Vice President of Criminal Justice Research at Arnold Ventures and Research Director at the University of Chicago Crime Lab. 

CV
ashna.arora@gmail.com

Working/Published Papers

Targeted Interventions for High-Risk Domestic Violence Victims with Xander Beberman, Zubin Jelveh, and Ashley Motta
Coverage: Probable Causation, The Niskanen Center (35:30)

Release from Prison, Parole, and Mortality

Juvenile Crime and Under-Recording

Policing Substance Use: Chicago's Treatment Program for Narcotics Arrests with Panka Bencsik
Coverage: Chicago Sun Times, The Crime Report, Better Government Association, Probable Causation, The Niskanen Center (45:20), City of Chicago, NewsNation, WTTW, California Law Revision Commission

Juvenile Crime and Anticipated Punishment
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023
Coverage: The Crime Report

Election by Community Consensus: Effects on Political Selection and Governance
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022
Coverage: Ideas For India

Pure-Chance Jobs vs. A Labor Market: The Impact on Careers of a Random Serial Dictatorship for First Job Seekers with Len Goff and Jonas Hjort
American Economic Association Papers & Proceedings, 2021

Work-in-Progress

Domestic Violence and Pre-Trial Detention
with Erick Andrade, Zubin Jelveh, and Melissa McNeill

Too Tough on Crime? The Impact of Prosecutor Politics on Incarceration
Coverage: Marginal Revolution

Can a Rehabilitative Approach to Incarceration Work in the U.S.? Experimental Evidence from Illinois with Ben Feigenberg

The Impact of Free Communication Technology in Prison with Nour Abdul-Razzak, Panka Bencsik, and Omair Gill
Coverage: ASHEcon Program Chair Award

Popular Writing

Chicago Program Aims to Reduce Substance Use -- Without Punishment with Panka Bencsik, Chicago Tribune, December 2022

Is Electronic Monitoring Contributing to Gun Violence? Here's a Look at the Data with Jens Ludwig, Chicago Tribune, May 2022
Coverage: The Intercept