Randi Hjalmarsson
Last Updated: August 2011
Queen Mary, University of London Mobile: +44(0)75 761 85482 School of Economics and Finance Office: +44(0)20 7882 8839 Mile End Road Fax: +44(0)20 8983 3580 London E1 4NS, UK Email: r.hjalmarsson@qmul.ac.uk
Education
Yale University, Ph.D. Economics, 2005
Dissertation: The Impact of Arrest and Incarceration on Juvenile Crime and Education Advisors: Professor Joseph Altonji, Professor Patrick Bayer, and Professor John J. Donohue III Columbia University, B.A. Economics and Mathematics (with departmental honors), 1998
Employment and Affiliations
Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Research Affiliate, Public Policy, 2010 – Queen Mary, University of London
Lecturer, School of Economics and Finance, 2010 – University of Maryland
Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy, 2005 – 2009
Faculty Associate, Maryland Population Research Center, October 2005 – 2009 Project Manager, NYC Economic Development Corporation, 1999-2000
Financial Analyst, Technology Investment Banking Group, SG Cowen, 1998-1999
Fields
Economics of Crime; Labor Economics; Public Economics
Teaching
Queen Mary, University of London, School of Economics and Finance
Graduate Labour Economics (Spring 2010) Undergraduate Microeconomics 1 (Spring 2011) Undergraduate Microeconomics 2 (Spring 2011)
University of Maryland, School of Public Policy
Quantitative Methods in Public Policy (Fall 2005, Spring 2006)
Microeconomics and Policy Analysis (Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009)
Grants, Fellowships, and Awards
American Law and Economics Review Distinguished Article Prize, 2010, for best empirical paper published in the last two years.
National Science Foundation. Estimating and Explaining the Intergenerational Nature of Crime. SES0819032. Principal investigator, 2008 – 2010, $166,951.
Maryland Population Research Center Seed Grant, 2007, $15,000. Conference Travel Fund Award, Fall 2004
Yale Dissertation Fellowship, Fall 2004 John Perry Miller Award, Summer 2004 John F. Enders Award, Summer 2003 Yale University Fellowship, 2000-2004
Publications
1. Randi Hjalmarsson and Matthew Lindquist (forthcoming). “Like Godfather, Like Son: Exploring the Intergenerational Nature of Crime”. Journal of Human Resources
2. Mark Duggan, Randi Hjalmarsson, and Brian Jacob. (forthcoming). “The Short-term and Localized Effect of Gun Shows: Evidence from California and Texas,” Review of Economics and Statistics. Also NBER Working Paper #14371.
3. Randi Hjalmarsson and Matthew Lindquist (2010). “Driving Under the Influence of Our Fathers”
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. 10:1 (Topics).
4. Randi Hjalmarsson and Mark Lopez (2010). “The Voting Behavior of Disenfranchised Criminals: Would They Vote if They Could?” American Law and Economics Review. 12(2): 265-279.
5. Erik Hjalmarsson and Randi Hjalmarsson (2009). “Efficiency in Housing Markets: Which Home Buyers Know How to Discount?” Journal of Banking and Finance Volume 33(11): 2150-2163. 6. Patrick Bayer, Randi Hjalmarsson, and David Pozen (2009), “Building Criminal Capital Behind Bars:
Peer Effects in Juvenile Corrections”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 124(1): 105-147. 7. Randi Hjalmarsson. (2009) “Juvenile Jails: A Path to the Straight and Narrow or Hardened
Criminality?”, Journal of Law and Economics, Volume 52(4): 779-809.
8. Randi Hjalmarsson. (2009) “Crime and Expected Punishment: Changes in Perceptions at the Age of Criminal Majority.” American Law and Economics Review, Volume 11(1): 209-248. Awarded the American Law and Economics Review Distinguished Article Prize, 2010, for best empirical paper published in the last two years.
9. Randi Hjalmarsson. (2009) “Does Capital Punishment Have a ‘Local’ Deterrent Effect on Homicides?” American Law and Economics Review, Volume 11(2): 310-334.
10. Randi Hjalmarsson. (2008) “Criminal Justice Involvement and High School Completion”, Journal of
Working Papers
11. Randi Hjalmarsson. (2008). “The Impact of Social Institution Characteristics on Substance Abuse and Risky Behavior”, Invited Conference Paper. Transdisciplinary Prevention Research Center, Duke University: Reducing Substance Use Initiation Among Adolescents: Bringing Science Down to Earth, October 2008.
12. Jury Discrimination in Criminal Trials (with Patrick Bayer and Shamena Anwar) – NBER Working Paper 16366 – Revise and Resubmit Quarterly Journal of Economics
13. The Origins of Intergenerational Associations in Crime: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data (with Matthew Lindquist)
Working Projects
14. The Causal Effect of Education on Crime: Evidence from the Swedish Compulsory School Reform (with Matthew Lindquist)
15. Identifying the Effect of Jury Composition on Trial Verdicts (with Shamena Anwar and Patrick Bayer)
Conference Presentations
IZA 3rd Annual Conference on Economics of Risky Behavior, Discussant, April 2011 2nd Bonn & Paris Workshop on Law and Economics, October 2010
1st Bonn & Paris Workshop on Law and Economics, September 2009 European Economic Association, Barcelona, August 2009.
Reducing Substance Use Initiation among Adolescents: Bringing Science Down to Earth, Sanford Institute of Public Policy – October 2008 – Invited paper and talk.
APPAM November 2007.
Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (NYU) – November 2007 – invited session. ASC – November 2007 – two invited sessions.
NBER Working Group on the Economics of Crime, September 2007. European Economic Association, Budapest, August 2007.
North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Duke University, June 2007. 2007 Crime and Population Dynamics Summer Workshop, June 2007
Population Association of America, New York, NY March 2007.
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Wisconsin, November 2006. European Economic Association, Vienna, August 2006.
2006 Criminology and Economics Workshop, June 2006.
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington D.C, November 2005. Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Atlanta, October 2004.
North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Brown University, June 2004. Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington D.C., November 2003.
Invited Seminars
Gothenburg University, Sweden, September 2011 (scheduled) Center for Studies in Economics and Finance, Naples, February 2011 Queen Mary, University of London, December 2010
City University, November 2010 LSE, November 2010
UCL, November 2010
Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics, November 2010 University of Bonn, Max Plank, July 2010
Queen Mary, University of London, February 2009 Royal Holloway, University of London February 2009 Essex University, February 2009
University of Maryland, School of Public Policy, September 2008. Yale Law School, March 2008.
University of Maryland Baltimore County – Public Policy/Econ – October 2007. University of Maryland Population Research Center, September 2007.
The Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), May 2007. Stockholm University, Economics (2 talks), May 2007. Bureau of Labor Statistics, December 2006.
University of Maryland, Economics, March 2006.
University of Pittsburgh/Carnegie Mellon, Economics, November 2005. University of Maryland, School of Public Policy, February 2005. University of Wisconsin, Economics, February 2005.
Rochester University, Economics, February 2005. Rutgers University, Economics, January 2005. University of Chicago, Harris School, January 2005.
University of California, Santa Cruz, Economics, February 2005. Abt Associates, January 2005.
Referee Service
American Economic Journal – Applied; American Economic Journal – Economic Policy; American Economic Review; American Journal of Political Science; American Law and Economics Review; The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy; Crime and Delinquency; Economic Inquiry; Economic Journal; European Economic Review; Journal of American Statistical Association; Journal of Economic Surveys; Journal of Human Capital; Journal of Human Resources; Journal of Law and Economics; The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization; Journal of Policy Analysis and Management; Journal of Public Economics; Journal of Socio-Economics; Journal of Urban Economics; National Science Foundation; Quarterly Journal of Economics; Research Grants Council of Hong Kong; Review of Economics and Statistics; Review of Economic Studies
Selected Press Coverage
The Wall Street Journal, Christopher Shea, April 27, 2011
The New York Times. Social Science Palooza by David Brooks. December 6, 2010.
Cited “The Short-term and Localized Effect of Gun Shows”
Freakonomics Blog, The New York Times, September 22, 2010.
Cited “Jury Discrimination in Criminal Trials”
Nonicoclolasos.wordpress.com November 29, 2009 and Ekonomistas.se August 25, 2009.
University/Departmental Service
Queen Mary, University of London
Deputy to the Chair of the Undergraduate Board of Examiners 2010 Undergraduate Adviser 2010-2011
University of Maryland:
University Service: ELMS Planning Committee 2006-2007, 2007-2008; Course Evaluation advisory committee – 2006-2007, 2007-2008;
Gemstone Dissertation Discussant 2006
School Service: Admissions Committee 2005-2006, 2006– 2007; Faculty Recruiting Committee – 2007 – 2008; Faculty Merit Review Committee 2005-2006; Organized Applied Micro Seminar Series 2005-2006, 2006 - 2007
Service to the PhD Program: Chaired Microeconomics Comprehensive Exam Committee – 2007, Quantitative Methods Comprehensive Exam Committee – 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008 (Chair), 2008-2009 (Chair); Dissertation Committee: Hyun Koo Cho (2007), Chris Herbst (2007), Emily Owens (Economics - 2007), Sharon Huang (Psychology – 2008); Organized PhD Job Market Workgroup
