Contact Information
E-mail: r(dot)d-este(at)sussex(dot)ac(dot)uk
Office: Jubilee Building 280, BN19SL, Falmer (United Kingdom).
Selected Work in Progress
"(Managing) Violence Across UK Prisons", with Rocco Macchiavello and Ottavia Pesenti
"Social Injustice and Civil Society: The Impact of US Innocence Organizations", with Noam Yuchtman
Working Papers
“Shadow Lobbyists” with Mirko Draca and Christian Fons-Rosen, IZA Discussion Paper No. 15918. This Version: February 2024. Media Coverage: INET. Revision Requested at the Review of Economic Studies
“Inside Prisons: The Effects of a Blanket Ban on New Psychoactive Substances”, IZA Discussion Paper No. 15248. This Version: May 2024. Revision Requested at the Economic Journal
“Correcting Racial Injustice: Forensic DNA Technology and the Exoneration of the Wrongfully Convicted”, with Noam Yuchtman, IZA Discussion Paper No. 16076, April 2023. New Draft Coming Soon
Publications
“The Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reforms: Universal Credit, Financial Insecurity, and Crime” with Alex Harvey, The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, May 2022.
Media Coverage: The Independent I, The Independent II, Yahoo News, The Evening Standard Around 150 national, regional, and local UK media have discussed the research findings. For a non-exhaustive list of outlets click here.
“Breaking the Crystal Methamphetamine Economy: Illegal Drugs, Supply-Side Interventions, and Crime Responses”, Economica, Volume 88, Issue 349, January 2021, 208-233. [Top 10 Wiley most downloaded papers].
“The Effects of Stolen Goods Markets on Crime: Pawnshops, Property Thefts and the Gold Rush of the 2000s”, The Journal of Law and Economics, Volume 63, Number 3, August 2020, 449-472.
“Beyond Black and White: The Impact of Asian Peers on Scholastic Achievement” with Elias Einiö, Economics of Education Review, Volume 83, August 2021, 102129.