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:

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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)

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 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!

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

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

The context here has to be fascinating

It just knew which memes would hit