Zach Porreca

It's a pretty short paper, but we think it's a pretty fun one.

The link to the current version can be found here:

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Happy Valentine's Day! (6/6)

With that estimator, we jump forward to 19th century London to look at the birth of the city's first professional police force, finding that within their jurisdiction the concentration of violence around markets declined over 50%... (5/N)

We show that many of these murders were business related disputes that should not have escalated to violence. We then derive a novel DiD estimator for changes in spatial concentration. (4/N)

We introduce a simple model to serve as our conceptual framework, and show that in medieval London violence was disproportionately concentrated around the era's marketplaces. We then use a locally hosted LLM to unpack the accounts of these murders. (3/N)

We make the argument that the factors driving violence in illicit markets are not unique to the commodities being sold, rather that violence would exist in any market if the participants were similarly cut off from formal institutions of enforcement and dispute resolution. (2/N)

Happy to share a new working paper with Alex Cardazzi and Victoria Biagi, a wonderful grad student at University of Liverpool. Here's a quick thread. (1/N)

Economics of Criminal Governance Despite existing outside of formal institutional constraints, repeated interactions in criminal markets give birth to criminal organizations that function as institutions of governance over participan...

Handbook chapter out today on the economics of criminal governance

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The fog and Christmas time together can do some cool things

the last chapter of my dissertation is online now at Economica. Joint work with Bryan McCannon
......We look at criminal trials in 19th century London, documenting the impacts of the guaranteed right to defense for those accused of felonies. fun paper, lots of cool stuff in there

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Is this site a thing now?

Really it looked good to me too

Great news, how can incarcerated folks be expected to set up the post-release housing and employment parole boards often require if they're required to pay (at minimum) $1 per 15 minutes? Each call being the equivalent of at least 2 hours of prison labor

I find myself reading textbooks more now that I'm done grad school. Fairly unexpected turn of events

I recently went back and tracked down digital copies of some issues so I could order something advertised in one round 20 years ago. Surprisingly successful

Thank you!

Periodic dog content

Hey Vitor. Hope all's well. Your job market paper keeps crossing my path!

GitHub - kylebutts/nber_methods_lecture_slides: Slides from NBER Methods Lecture (extracted from the... Slides from NBER Methods Lecture (extracted from the Wayback Machine) - GitHub - kylebutts/nber_methods_lecture_slides: Slides from NBER Methods Lecture (extracted from the Wayback Machine)

Hi all! I'm Kyle at CU Boulder in the Economics department (and a job market candidate !!). I mostly tweet about my papers and my open source software/resources.

I'll start off with a bsky exclusive. All the pdf slides from NBER methods lectures back to 2007: github.com/kylebutts/nb...

I have a friend from high school whose a psychiatrist now. He does "psychodrama" now, if relevant I'd be happy to make an email intro

Kebab shop is playing Avril Lavigne as I sit on the sidewalk having a beer with my dog. All is right in the world

📈📉 FGCU is hiring 3 positions in the Department of Economics and Finance: 1 junior AP in Finance, 1 junior/senior AP in Finance and 1 Instructor of Economics.

Come and join me in SWFL!!

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Hear me out... a master login for editorial manager that works for all journals #EconSky

Female politicians face an additional gender gap: they are 3️⃣ times more likely to experience violence while in office.

We study the reasons and consequences of violence in a new paper, summarized in this column cepr.org/voxeu/column...

With @mpulejo.bsky.social and Gianmarco Daniele

The context here has to be fascinating

It just knew which memes would hit

Sounds like folks are worried about losing data access during a possible government shutdown, so I quickly whipped up this Education Data Portal with all the major datasets on schools, districts, and colleges: educationdata.urban.org/documentation/

Reupping this offer.

It's the flannel!

As for coffee, that'd be great. I assume we're on the same floor, lots of accounting offices here on the 5th

The number 10 suggested feed here is one for furries. The new world is an interesting place

Seeing intros on here. So:

I'm Zach, I'm a post doc at the CLEAN unit at Bocconi University. I finished my PhD last year at West Virginia University. Primarily, at the moment, I work on crime topics but really just into applied micro stuff.

My dog is pretty cool.