Seminars
Send an email to clean@unibocconi.it if you are interested in attending CLEAN online seminars.
2025
May 21st (online)
TBD
Jens Ludwig (University of Chicago)
May 14th (online)
TBD
Henrik Sigstad (BI Norwegian Business School)
April 30th (online)
TBD
Katie Bollman (Oregon State University)
April 16th (online)
TBD
Magdalena Dominguez (Institute for Fiscal Studies)
April 15th (in person)
TBD
Austin Smith (University of Arizona)
April 2nd (online)
TBD
Stephen Machin (London School of Economics)
March 19th (in person)
TBD
Olivier Marie (Rotterdam University)
March 11th (in person)
TBD
Francesco Ambrosini (Università di Padova)
March 5th (online)
TBD
Romain Ferarali (Aix Marseille School of Economics)
February 19th (online)
TBD
Bocar Ba (Duke University)
February 5th (online)
TBD
Rodrigo Soares (Insper, Brazil)
2024
December 16th (in-person)
Juan Vargas (Carlo Alberto)
December 11th (online)
Analisa Packham (Vanderbilt University)
November 27th (online)
Patricio Dominguez (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)
November 20th (online)
Karmini Sharma (Imperial College London)
November 13th (online)
Dean Knox (University of Pennsylvania)
November 6th (online)
Rocco d’Este (University of Sussex)
October 30th (online)
Bruno Caprettini (University of St Gallen)
October 16th (online)
Mike Laforest (US Air Force Academy)
October 2nd (online)
Pablo Slutzky (University of Maryland)
September 30th (in-person)
Once Upon a Time in America: the Mafia and the Unions
Andrea Matranga (University of Turin)
September 23rd (in-person)
The Institutional Role of the Italian Mafia: Enforcing Contracts When the State Does Not
Federica Braccioli (Vienna University)
May 22nd (online)
The Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War
Felipe Valencia Caicedo (University of British Columbia)
May 15th (online)
Uncertainty, Peace, and Investment: Evidence from Credit Microdata in Colombia
Luis R. Martínez (Chicago University)
May 8th (online)
Mafias and Firms
Rocco Macchiavello (London School of Economics)
April 24th (online)
Unfolding State Capture by Legalized Non-state Armed Actors in Colombia
Javier Osorio (University of Arizona)
April 17th (in person)
Place-Based Policies in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Effects on Crime, Inactivity, Residential Composition and House Prices
Anna Piil Damm (Aarhus University)
April 10th (online)
Does Neighborhood Investment Actually Affect Crime? New Evidence from LIHTC and Smartphone-base Measures of Policing
Emily Owens (University of California - Irwine)
April 8th (in person)
Understanding the Punitive Cost of a Mug Shot: A Machine Learning Application
Gary Wagner (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
April 3rd (online)
The Big Short (Interest): Closing the Loopholes in the Dividend-Withholding Tax
Evelina Gavrilova (Norwegian School of Economics)
March 27th (online)
Did Violence Against Asian-Americans Rise in 2020? Evidence from a Novel Approach to Measuring Potentially Racially-Motivated Attacks
Aaron Chalfin (University of Pennsylvania)
March 20th (online)
The Economic Costs of Rape
Huttunen Kristiina (Aalto University)
March 13th (online)
Victimisation and Birth Outcomes
Livia Menezes (University of Birmingham - Boulder)
March 6th (online)
Better Stealing Than Dealing? The Effects of Felony Theft Thresholds
Mike Makowsky (Clemson University)
February 28th (online)
Surviving Childhood: Health and Crime Effects of Removing a Child From Home
Ronja Helensdotter (Gothenburg University)
February 21st (online)
We're Building Something Here: Reducing Gun Violence Without Exacerbating the Harms of Policing in Baltimore's Western District
Max Kapustin (Cornell University)
February 14th (online)
Local Media Reports about Sexual Crimes and Judicial Outcomes in India
Mahima Vasishth (Bocconi University)
February 7th (in person)
The Erosion of Homeownership and Minority Wealth
Adam Soliman (Visiting Bocconi, London School of Economics)
2023
4 December (online)
Ordinary Men: Inside one of the Largest Armed Organizations of the Congo
Raul Sanchez de la Sierra (University of Chicago)
29 November (online)
A Cognitive View of Policing
Oeindrila Dube (University of Chicago)
22 November (online)
The Franchise, Policing, and Race: Evidence from Arrests Data and the Voting Rights Act
Brian Knight (Brown University)
15 November (online)
Beauty pays for crime? Evidence from criminal sentencing
Tang Cheng Keat (Nanyang Technological University)
10 November (in person)
When Nation Building Goes South: Draft Evasion, Government Repression, and the Origins of the Sicilian Mafia
Gianni Marciante (University of Bologna)
8 November (online)
The Race Between Tax Enforcement and Tax Planning: Evidence From a Natural Experiment in Chile
Dina Pomeranz (University of Zurich)
30 October (in person)
Does School Choice Increase Crime?
Stephen Billings (University of Colorado - Boulder)
27 October (in person)
Does refusing legal aid cause harm? A design-based double-machine-learning approach
Fabio Martinenghi (UNSW Sydney)
18 October (online)
Digging Deeper: Mining Companies and Armed Bands in the DRC
Davide Zufacchi (University College London)
11 October (online)
From Lapdogs to Watchdogs: Random Auditor Assignment and Municipal Fiscal Performance
Silvia Vannutelli (Northwestern University)
9 October (online)
Criminal Charges, Risk Assessment, and Violent Recidivism in Cases of Domestic Abuse
Jeffrey Grogger (Harris School of Public Policy Chicago)
4 October (online)
Convicts and Comrades: Coerced Labor’s Impact on Early Labor Unions
Hazal Sezer (Tilburg University)
19 June (in person)
Ethnic discrimination throughout the criminal justice system
Nadine Ketel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
12 June (online)
The Effects of Teacher Quality on Adult Criminal Justice Contact
Yotam Shem-Tov (UCLA)
22 May
Elections for sale? Evidence from Italian local elections
Giacomo De Luca (Università di Bolzano)
8 May (online)
The Dynamics of Abusive Relationships
Emily Nix (University of Southern California)
3 April (online)
Immigration Enforcement, Crime, and Community Trust in Police
Emily Weisburst (UCLA)
27 March (online)
Exploring Inmates' Perceptions: Evidence from Survey in Czechia
Arnaus Philippe (Bristol University)
13 March (online)
Bless or Curse for Organized Crime? The Long-Term Effects of an Energy Transition from Coal to Oil on the Yakuza
Takuma Kamada (Osaka University)
27 February (in person)
The Local Effect of Executions on Serious Crime (joint with Diego Battiston)
Jordi Blanes i Vidal (LSE)
13 February (online)
Rules Matter: How Tax Enforcement Increases Revealed Preference for Redistribution
Simone Paci (Columbia)
30 January (online)
Behavioral Responses to Wealth Taxation: Evidence from Colombia
Juliana Londono-Velez (UCLA)
2022
19 December
How Criminal Governance Undermines Elections
Jessie Trudeau (Brown University)
5 December
Uncovering illegal and underground economies: the case of mafia extortion racketeering
Lavinia Piemontese (Bocconi University, CLEAN)
21 November
The Co-opted State: Bureaucrats, Development, and Corruption in Ghana
Sarah Brierley (LSE)
7 November
Murphy’s Law or the Luck of the Irish? Disparate Treatment of the Irish in 19th Century Courts
Anna Binder (University of Cologne)
24 October
Fear to Vote: Explosions and Elections in Colombia
Mounu Prem (Rosario-EIEF)
17 October
The Impact of Incarceration on Employment and Earnings
Evan Rose (University of Chicago)
3 October
Measuring Effects of Conviction and Incarceration on Recidivism using Multi-Treatment Random Judge Designs
Aurelie Ouss (UPenn)
13 June
Do politicians in power receive special treatment in courts? Evidence from India
Rubén Poblete-Cazenave (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
31 May
Gangs of London: Public Housing, Bombs and Knives
Tom Kirchmaier (LSE)
23 May
Can political fiscal cycles be stopped? Evidence from a public spending ban near elections
Nelson Ruiz (University of Oxford)
17 May
A Manufactured Tragedy: The Origins and Deep Ripples of the Opioid Epidemic
Carolina Arteaga (University of Toronto)
2 May
Commuting for crime
Monica Langella (LSE)
11 April
The Fascist Roots of Migrant Labor Exploitation
Shanker Satyanath (NYU)
5 April
Job Loss and Conflict in the Household
Ria Ivandic (University of Oxford)
21 March
Gang rule: Understanding and countering criminal governance
Santiago Tobon (Universidad EAFIT)
7 March
The Logic and Impacts of Rebel Public Services Provision: Evidence from Taliban Courts in Afghanistan
Austin L. Wright (University of Chicago)
21 February
Policing Substance Use: Chicago's Treatment Program for Narcotics Arrests
Ashna Arora (University of Chicago)
7 February
The spatial structure of police violence
Patrick Sharkey (Princeton University)
31 January
Nautical Patrol and Illegal Fishing Practices
Stephen Kastoryano (University of Reading)
2021
20 December
Discontinuities in the Age-Victimization Profile and the Determinants of Victimization
Randi Hjalmarsson (University of Gothenburg)
22 November
The role of officer race and gender in police-civilian interactions in Chicago
Jonathan Mummolo (Princeton University)
8 November
The Impact of Financial Sanctions in the U.S. Justice System: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Michigan's Driver Responsibility Program
Mike Mueller-Smith (University of Michigan)
25 October
Deterrence or Backlash? The Causal Effect of Arrest on the Dynamics of Domestic Violence
Sofia Amaral (University of Munich)
11 October
Firms amid Conflict: Performance, Production Inputs, and Market Competition
Michele Di Maio (Sapienza University of Rome)
4 October
De-escalation technology: the impact of body-worn cameras on citizen-police interactions
Pedro Souza (Warwick University)
27 September
Misdemeanor Prosecution
Jennifer Doleac (Texas A&M University)
21 June2021
Prison work and convict rehabilitation
Giulio Zanella (Università di Bologna)
7 June 2021
The Political Economy of Assassinations
Mariana Carvalho (UC San Diego)
24 May 2021
Using Mobile Salary Payments to Reduce Corruption and Promote Financial Development in Afghanistan
Stefano Fiorin (Università Bocconi)
10 May 2021
Corruption Corrupts:Scandals and Supermarket Thefts
Giorgio Gulino (Pompeu Fabra University)
26 April March 2021
Highway to Hell? Interstate Highway System & Crime
Francesca Calamunci (Università di Catania)
12 April 2021
The Big House far from Home: Spatial Distance and Criminal Recidivism
Anna Weber (Boston University)
22 March 2021
Mexican Cartel Wars: Fighting for the U.S. Opioid Market
Fernanda Sobrino (University of Chicago)
8 March 2021
Gangs, Labor Mobility and Development
Micaela Sviatschi (Princeton University)
22 February 2021
Freedom of Speech, Deterrence, and Compellence in the Parliament
Naci Mocan (Louisiana State University)
8 February 2021
Self-Selecting Candidates or Compelling Voters: How Organized Crime Affects Political Selection
Giovanni Immordino (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
25 January 2021
School Indiscipline and Crime
Matteo Sandi (London School of Economics)
11 January 2021
The economic effects of removing corrupt city councils
Alessandra Fenizia (George Washington University)
2020
14 December 2020
Organized Crime, Earthquakes and Local Public Procurement: Evidence from Italy
Giovanna Marcolongo (Bocconi University)
23 November 2020
The Geography of Gang Violence
Jesse Bruhn (Brown University)
9 November 2020
Politics by Denunciation
Giovanna Invernizzi (Columbia University)
26 October 2020
Judicial Corruption, Favor Exchange and the Rule of Law
Bakhtawar Ali (CERP)
12 October 2020
Individual Economic Shocks and Access to Justice: Evidence from Matched Labor and Court Data
Diogo Britto (Bocconi University)
28 September 2020
Immigrants, Legal Status, and Illegal Trade
Brett McCully, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
14 September 2020
Machine Learning can Predict Bank Frauds
Rohrkemper Robert, Associate Director Worldline and Atos
9 July 2020
Urban criminal networks and the optimality of tough-on-crime policies (reading group)
Magdalena Dominguez Perez, University of Barcelona
25 June 2020
Do far-right mayors increase the probability of hate-crimes? Evidence from Italy
Alessio Romarri, University of Barcelona
15 June 2020
The Spirit of Ramadan and Criminal Acquittals: Causal Evidence from Pakistan
Sultan Mehmood, Aix-Marseille School of Economics
3 June 2020
Corruption and Extremism
Massimo Morelli, Bocconi University
14 May 2020
How Criminal Organizations Expand to Strong States: Migrants’ Exploitation and Vote Buying in
Northern Italy
Gemma Dipoppa, University of Pennsylvania
15 April 2020
Who Watches the Watchmen? Local News and Police Behaviour in the United States
Nicola Mastrorocco, Trinity College Dublin
1 April 2020
Urban criminal networks and the optimality of tough-on-crime policies
Magdalena Dominguez Perez, University of Barcelona
5 February 2020
Corruption under Austerity
Gianmarco Daniele, Bocconi University
15 January 2020
Life-Course Criminal Trajectories of Mafia Members
Gian Maria Campedelli, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
2019
4 December 2019
Are Biometric Identification Machines Helping to Clean Up Elections? Evidence from Colombia
Manoel Gehrke, Bocconi University
31 October 2019
Fueling Organized Crime: Oil Thefts and the Mexican Drug War
Marco Le Moglie, Bocconi University