Research

Job Sorting and the Labor Market Effects of a Criminal Record (with Louis-Pierre Lepage, Matthew Lindquist, and Conrad Miller). CEPR Discussion Paper 20324; NBER Working Paper 33865

Diagnosing ADHD in Prison: The Effects on Inmates and Their Families (with Matthew Lindquist) (draft available on request)

The Short and Long-Run Effects of Gender Discrimination in the Courthouse (with Ozkan Eren and Orgul Ozturk) (draft available on request)

Murphy's Law or Luck of the Irish? Disparate Treatment of the Irish in 19th Century Courts (with Anna Bindler, Steve Machin, and Melissa Rubio), CEPR Discussion Paper 18083, R&R

The Role of Juror Demographics in Civil Trials (with Shamena Anwar and Patrick Bayer), R&R.  (draft available on request)

Women in Policing, Gender Norms and Police Decisions (with Anna Bindler), R&R

Longer Prison Time and Non-Incarcerated Peers (with Daniel Cunha Byström and Matthew Lindquist)

Hjalmarsson, Randi (2024) “Determinants of Recidivism: How Criminal Justice Interactions and the Post-Release Environment Affect Repeat Offending” SNS Research Report.

Hjalmarsson, Randi, Steven Machin, and Paolo Pinotti (2024) “Crime and the Labor Market” in Handbook of Labor Economics, 1st Edition, Volume 5, Eds. Christian Dustmann and Thomas Lemieux, North Holland

Bindler, Anna, Randi Hjalmarsson, Nadine Ketel, and Andreea Mitrut (2024) "Discontinuities in the Age-Victimization Profile and the Determinants of Victimization" Economic Journal, 134:95-134.  CEPR Discussion Paper DP  16770

Hjalmarsson, Randi (2022) "Social Policies as Crime Control", SNS Research Report.

Hjalmarsson, Randi and Matthew Lindquist (2022) The Health Effects of Prison  American Economic Journal: Applied,   14(4): 234-270. CEPR Discussion Paper DP15214.

Anwar, Shamena, Patrick Bayer, and Randi Hjalmarsson (2022) "Unequal Jury Representation and Its Consequences ," AER Insights, 4(2): 159-74.

Anwar, Shamena, Patrick Bayer, Randi Hjalmarsson, and Matthew Mizel (2021) "Racial Disparities in Misdemeanor Speeding Convictions," Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2021. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA1317-1.html 

Hjalmarsson, Randi, Andreea Mitrut and Cristian Pop-ELeches (2021) The Impact of Abortion on Crime and Crime-Related Behavior, Journal of Public Economics, Volume 200. NBER Working Paper 26024 and CEPR Discussion Paper DP 13800.

Bindler, Anna and Randi Hjalmarsson (2021) The Impact of the First Professional Police Forces on Crime, Journal of the European Economic Association. 19(6). Also  CEPR Discussion Paper DP14068.

Bindler, Anna and Randi Hjalmarsson (2020) The Persistence of the Criminal Justice Gender Gap: Evidence from 200 Years of Judicial Decisions, Journal of Law and Economics, 63(2): 297-339.  Also CEPR Discussion Paper DP 14067

Hjalmarsson, Randi and Matthew Lindquist (2019) The Causal Effect of Military Conscription on Crime and the Labor Market,  The Economic Journal, 129(622): 2522-2562. Also CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11110, 2016.  Online Appendix

Bindler, Anna and Randi Hjalmarsson (forthcoming) Path Dependency in Jury Decision Making,  Journal of the European Economic Association

Anwar, Shamena, Patrick Bayer and Randi Hjalmarsson (2019) A Jury of Her Peers: The Impact of the First Female Jurors on Criminal Verdicts,The Economic Journal, 129: 603-650. Also at NBER Working Paper No. 21960 and CEPR DP 11116, 2016.

Anwar, Shamena, Patrick Bayer and Randi Hjalmarsson (2019) Politics in the Courtroom: Political Ideology and Jury Decision Making, 17(3): 835-875.NBER W21145 and CEPR DP 10589,   Journal of the European Economic Association.

Bindler, Anna and Randi Hjalmarsson, (2018) "How Punishment Severity Affects Jury Verdicts: Evidence from Two Natural Experiments", American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 10(4): 36-78. (Earlier Version, CEPR Working paper, The Fall of Capital Punishment and the Rise of Prisons: How Expected Sentences Affect Jury Verdicts)

Bindler, Anna and Randi Hjalmarsson (2017), “Prisons, Recidivism and the Age-CrimeProfile”, Economics Letters, 152, 46-49

Hederos Eriksson, Karin, Randi Hjalmarsson, Matthew Lindquist and Anna Sandberg (2016), “The Importance of Family Background and Neighborhood Effects as Determinants of Crime”, Journal of Population Economics, 29(1), 219-262. Also CEPR Discussion Paper #9911.

Hjalmarsson, Randi, Helena Holmlund, and Matthew Lindquist, (2015) “The Effect of Education on Criminal Convictions and Incarceration: Causal Evidence from Micro-data,” The Economic Journal, 125, 1290–1326. Also CEPR Discussion Paper # 8646.

 Anwar, Shamena, Patrick Bayer, and Randi Hjalmarsson (2014) “The Role of Age in Jury Selection and Trial Outcomes” Journal of Law and Economics. 57(4), 1001-1030. Also NBER Working Paper 17887

 Randi Hjalmarsson and Matthew Lindquist (2013) “The Origins of Intergenerational Associations in Crime: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data” Labour Economics. 20, 68-81. Also CEPR Discussion Paper # 8318.

Anwar, Shamena, Patrick Bayer, and Randi Hjalmarsson (2012) “Jury Discrimination in Criminal Trials,” Quarterly Journal of Economics. 127 (2): 1017-1055. Also NBER Working Paper 16366.

 Randi Hjalmarsson and Matthew Lindquist (2012). “Like Godfather, Like Son: Exploring the Intergenerational Nature of Crime”.  Journal of Human Resources, 47(2): 550-582.

 Mark Duggan, Randi Hjalmarsson, and Brian Jacob. (2011). “The Short-term and Localized Effect of Gun Shows: Evidence from California and Texas,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 786-799, Volume 93, Number 3. Also NBER Working Paper #14371.

 Randi Hjalmarsson and Matthew Lindquist (2010). “Driving Under the Influence of Our Fathers”  The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. 10:1 (Topics).

 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.

 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.

 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. 

 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.

 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.

 Randi Hjalmarsson. (2009) “Does Capital Punishment Have a ‘Local’ Deterrent Effect on Homicides?” American Law and Economics Review, Volume 11(2): 310-334.

 Randi Hjalmarsson. (2008) “Criminal Justice Involvement and High School Completion”, Journal of Urban Economics, 63: 613-630.

Hjalmarsson, Randi (2024). “Swedish Academia and the Role of Grants: An International Perspective,” Chapter 10 in I samhällets tjänst? En ESO-antologi om villkoren för Forskning och samverkan, Eds Jonas Eliasson and Maria Vredin. Rapport till Expertgruppen för studier i offentlig ekonomi 2024:2.

Svensson, Jakob, Kerstin Enflo, Per Johansson, Peter Fredriksson, Randi Hjalmarsson, and Tommy Andersson (2023) "2023 års ekonomipris till Claudia Goldin," Ekonomisk Debatt  8/2023.

Bindler, Anna and Randi Hjalmarsson (2022) ”Hur Strängare straff påverkar sannolikheten för brestraffning,” Ekonomisk Debatt  4/2022.

Hjalmarsson, Randi, Matthew Lindquist and Axel Malmcrona (2022) “Kan bättre hälsa minska brottslighet?” Ekonomisk Debatt, 4/2022.

Bindler, Anna, Nadine Ketel, and Randi Hjalmarsson (2020) “Costs of Victimisation,” Chapter in Risky Behavior, Eds Dave Marcotte (Section Editor) and Klaus Zimmerman (Handbook editor), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population, Springer Nature.

Hjalmarsson, Randi & Lindquist, Matthew J., 2018. "Labour economics and crime," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 52(C), pages 147-148.

Bäckman, Olof, Randi Hjalmarsson, Matthew Lindquist and Tove Pettersson (2018) “Könsskillnader i brottslighet – hur kan de förklaras?”, Ekonomisk Debatt, 46(4).

Randi Hjalmarsson (2012) “Can Executions Have a Short-Term Deterrence Effect on Non-Felony Homicides?” – Criminology & Public Policy – Policy Essay. 11(3): 565-571.

Randi Hjalmarsson and Lance Lochner (2012) “The Impact of Education on Crime: International Evidence”, CESifo DICE Report - Journal for Institutional Comparisons, vol. 10(2), pp. 49-55.