Ranae Jabri

I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the School of Economics at the University of Sydney.

Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (2022-2023). I received my Ph.D. in Economics from Duke University (2022), a Master of Legal Studies from the University of Chicago Law School (2020), and a B.A. in Economics-Mathematics from Columbia University (2013).

My research interests are in public economics, labor economics, and law and economics, with a focus on criminal justice, algorithmic decision-making, and inequality.

Email: ranae.jabri [at] sydney.edu.au

Research

When Does Crime Respond to Punishment?: Evidence from Drug-Free School Zones
(with Robert Gonzalez and Sarah Komisarow)
Journal of Urban Economics 147 (2025)

Algorithmic Policing
Reject and Resubmit at American Economic Review
Winner of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies Theodore Eisenberg Prize

Predictive Power at What Cost? Economic and Racial Justice of Data-Driven Algorithms
Reject and Resubmit at American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Select Works in Progress

Racial Differences in Earnings Flows to Prime Working-Age American Women
(with Patrick Bayer and Kerwin Charles)

Pretrial Detention of Children
(with Stefanie Schurer, Rebecca Wilcox, and Steve Yeong)

Algorithmic Feedback

Teaching

University of Sydney

ECON1006 - Economics of Everything (S1 2024, S1 2025, S1 2026)
ECOS3997 - Interdisciplinary Impact in Economics (S1 2024)
ECOS3026 - Economics of Crime (S1 2025, S1 2026)

Duke University

ECON201 - Intermediate Microeconomics (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) - Teaching Assistant

International Monetary Fund on edX (IMFx)

Debt Sustainability Analysis (2014) - Staff
Financial Programming and Policies, Part 1: Macroeconomic Accounts & Analysis (2014) - Staff

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