My name is Aaron Chalfin. I'm a Ph.D. Candidate at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. My primary research interests include criminal justice policy and the economics of crime. My current research endeavors include a paper (forthcoming in the American Law & Economics Review) that uses temporal variation in Mexican rainfall to estimate the effect of Mexican immigration on crime in U.S. cities and a second paper, joint with Justin McCrary, that documents the degree to which errors in the measurement of police obfuscate prevailing estimates of the effect of police on crime. My past work includes published research on both the cost and the deterrence effect of capital punishment and and a paper that reports the results of a randomized controlled trial on the effectiveness of collecting DNA evidence at residential burglary scenes. I have also been involved in research on the social and economic impacts of Mexican immigration to the United States. This research includes a paper in progress, joint with Morris Levy, in which I leverage historical data on Mexican fertility to estimate the effect of Mexican immigration on the wages and employment outcomes of U.S. workers.
Prior to returning graduate school, I received a terminal master's degree in Economics from Yale University and worked for three years as a research associate at the Urban Institute in Washington D.C. At Berkeley, my research has been supported by a National Science Foundation IGERT Fellowship, an NICHD Training Grant administered by the National Institutes of Health and an NSF/NBER Pre-Doctoral Crime Research Fellowship.
In August, I will join the faculty in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati as an Assistant Professor.
A copy of my curriculum vitae can be viewed here.
Prior to returning graduate school, I received a terminal master's degree in Economics from Yale University and worked for three years as a research associate at the Urban Institute in Washington D.C. At Berkeley, my research has been supported by a National Science Foundation IGERT Fellowship, an NICHD Training Grant administered by the National Institutes of Health and an NSF/NBER Pre-Doctoral Crime Research Fellowship.
In August, I will join the faculty in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati as an Assistant Professor.
A copy of my curriculum vitae can be viewed here.