Ranae Jabri
Welcome! I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the School of Economics at the University of Sydney. My research interests are at the intersection of law and economics, public economics, and labor economics.
I was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research in 2022-2023. I graduated with a Ph.D. in Economics from Duke University in 2022. I have a Master of Legal Studies from the University of Chicago Law School and a B.A. in Economics-Mathematics from Columbia University.
Please find my CV here
Email: ranae.jabri [at] sydney.edu.au
X: @rmjabri
Research
Working Papers
When Does Crime Respond to Punishment?: Evidence from Drug-Free School Zones (with Robert Gonzalez and Sarah Komisarow)
Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of Urban Economics
Reject and Resubmit at the American Economic Review
Winner of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies Theodore Eisenberg Prize (2022)
Predictive Power at What Cost? Economic and Racial Justice of Data-Driven Algorithms
Selected Works in Progress
The Evolution of Racial Differences in the Economic Well-being of Women: 1940-2020 (with Patrick Bayer and Kerwin Charles)
The Impacts of a Rule to Eliminate Racial Bias in Jury Selection