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Selected media coverage is listed here (by paper).
Selected media coverage is listed here (by paper).
Research Overview:
Research Overview:
Borås Tidning, October 24, 2021, pdf, "Fängslande studier om brott och straff"
Vetenskapsradio Forskarsliv, September 30, 2021, link, 20 minute interview highlighting my research and life as a researcher in Sweden (in Swedish and English)
Göteborg Posten, September 21, 2013
Svenska Dagbladet, October 17, 2013, link
göteborg, magazine distributed with Dagens Industri May 20, 2015
“Jury Discrimination in Criminal Trials”
“Jury Discrimination in Criminal Trials”
Cited by Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch dissent, November 7, 2022:
The Washington Post, The Fix, May 30, 2016, “How big a difference does an all-white jury make? A leadingexpert explains”
The Washington Post, The Fix, May 23, 2016, “What the Supreme Court Just Said – and What it Didn’t –about all-white Juries”
Vox, “A Supreme Court Case about Juries Could Have a Big Impact on Racism in the Justice System,” May 23, 2016
Freakonomics Blog, The New York Times, September 22, 2010.
“A Jury Pool’s Race CanDeny Justice” – CNN Opinion Piece – May 23, 2012
The Economist, Race and Juries
"The Health Effects of Prison"
"The Health Effects of Prison"
Vetenskapsradion Interview, October 2021, Längre tid i fängelse verkar ha påverkat intagnas hälsa - positivt
ProbableCausation Podcast, Episode 41, November 24, 2020 (with co-author Matthew Lindquist)
“Social Policies as Crime Control” - SNS Report
“Social Policies as Crime Control” - SNS Report
Altinget Omsorg, November 30, 2022, "Ekonomiprofessorns uppmaning: Utvärdera vården för att minska brott", See link.
Dagens Samhälle, November 22, 2022, "Forskare: Då väljer unga i riskzon bort en kriminell bana", See link.
Dagens Arena, December 7, 2022, "Starkt forskningsstöd för att en bra skola minskar brottsligheten", See link.
"Murphy's Law versus the luck of the Irish: Disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th-century courts"
"Murphy's Law versus the luck of the Irish: Disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th-century courts"
Economics Observatory, October 2023, How have minorities been treated by the UK's judicial system?
“The Impact of the First Professional Police Forces on Crime”
“The Impact of the First Professional Police Forces on Crime”
Vetenskapsradion Interview: October 2021, Att går långsamt och vara synliga en av polisens knep 1829
Do Police Reduce Crime? Evidence from the 1829 Introduction of the London Metropolitan Police, CAGE Policy Briefing no. 31, March 21, with Anna Bindler
The Impact of the First Professional Police Forces on Crime, with Anna Bindler, VOX CEPR’s Policy Portal, January 2020.
"How Punishment Severity Affects Jury Verdicts: Evidence from Two Natural Experiments"
"How Punishment Severity Affects Jury Verdicts: Evidence from Two Natural Experiments"
ProbableCausation Podcast, Episode 31, June 9, 2020
The Economist, April 12, 2017, "Tough Love: How Abolishing the Death Penalty Led to More Convictions"
AEA Research Highlight, November 30, 2018, Fitting the punishment to the crime
NEP-HIS Blog, November 2016, Off with his head? Capital punishment and jurors' dilemmas in 19th and 20th Ccentury Britain
“Path Dependency in Jury Decision-Making”
“Path Dependency in Jury Decision-Making”
Jury Verdicts: evidence from eighteenth century London of the dangers of sequential deicison-making, Microeconomic Insights, February 25, 2020.
Path Dependency in Jury Decision Making, with Anna Bindler, VOX CEPR’s Policy Portal, September 2, 2018
“The Causal Effect of Military Conscription on Crime and the Labor Market”
“The Causal Effect of Military Conscription on Crime and the Labor Market”
Cited in The Economist, The Military Draft is Making a Comeback, October 2, 2021
Cited in Dagen Nyheter ledare, March 3, 2017
What are the effects of mandatory militaryconscription on crime and the labour market?, with Matthew Lindquist, VOX CEPR’s Policy Portal, April 2, 2016
Op-ed in Dagens Samhelle, ”Värnpliktens hyllningskör har fel om integrationen” by Gabriel Heller Sahlgren, August 16, 2016
“A Jury of Her Peers: The Impact of the First Female Jurors on Criminal Convictions”
“A Jury of Her Peers: The Impact of the First Female Jurors on Criminal Convictions”
Diversity Coaching from the Olympic Dressage Event, Financial Times, Sarah O'Connor, August 21, 2018
Female Representation: Impact of First Female Jurorson Criminal Convictions, VOX CEPR’s Policy Portal, April 19, 2016.
The Impact of Early Female Jurors on Criminal Cases, NBER Digest, April 2016.
Picked up by PBS NewsHour (April 18), Making Sen$e,
The Conversation: How women change outcomes incourtrooms and beyond, February 29, 2016,
Reprinted by The Huffington Post
“Politics in the Courtroom: Political Ideology and Jury Decision Making”
“Politics in the Courtroom: Political Ideology and Jury Decision Making”
Dagen Nyeter, March 7, 2017
SverigesRadio, March 30, 2015
SverigesRadio, P4 Göteborg, ”Nämndemännens färg påverkar domar”
Aftonbladet, May 13, 2015, “Skamligt att politik tillåts påverka domar”
Göteborg Posten (leader), May 14, 2015 ”Malin Lernfelt: Politik bör lämnas utanför rätten”
LesEchos.fr Quand les juges sont jugés par les économistes
“Education and Crime”
“Education and Crime”
Policing in America: Roland Fryer on Better Alternatives to Defunding the Police, The Economist, July 10, 2020
Can Education Policy Be Used to Fight Crime? (with Matthew Lindquist and Helena Holmlund), VOX: Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists, http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/7356, November 29, 2011.
“A Fair and Impartial Jury? The Role of Age in Jury Selection and Trial Outcomes”
“A Fair and Impartial Jury? The Role of Age in Jury Selection and Trial Outcomes”
The Washington Post, “In this Louisiana courtroom, statisticallyimprobable jury pools give prosecutors an advantage,” Radley Balko, July 10, 2019.
Wall Street Journal blog, “Senior Citizens with Conviction”, Christopher Shea, March 7 2012
Freakonomics Blog, “Are Older Jurors More Likely to Convict?”, March 7, 2012
“The Short-term and Localized Effect of Gun Shows”
“The Short-term and Localized Effect of Gun Shows”
The Wall Street Journal, Christopher Shea, April 27, 2011
The New York Times. Social Science Palooza by David Brooks. Dec 6, 2010.
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