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econ.EM2023★ 11 cited
What's Logs Got to do With it: On the Perils of log Dependent Variables and Difference-in-Differences
Brendon McConnell
The log transformation of the dependent variable is not innocuous when using a difference-in-differences (DD) model. With a dependent variable in logs, the DD term captures an appr…
econ.GN2022★ 1 cited
Racial Sentencing Disparities and Differential Progression Through the Criminal Justice System: Evidence From Linked Federal and State Court Data
Brendon McConnell
Several key actors -- police, prosecutors, judges -- can alter the course of individuals passing through the multi-staged criminal justice system. I use linked arrest-sentencing da…
econ.GN2020
Kicking You When You're Already Down: The Multipronged Impact of Austerity on Crime
Corrado Giulietti, Brendon McConnell
The UK Welfare Reform Act 2012 imposed a series of deep welfare cuts, which disproportionately affected ex-ante poorer areas. In this paper, we provide the first evidence of the im…