Browsing by Author "Hjalmarsson, Randi"
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A Jury of Her Peers: The Impact of the First Female Jurors on Criminal Convictions
Anwar, Shamena; Bayer, Patrick; Hjalmarsson, Randi (2016-02)This paper uses an original data set of more than 3000 cases from 1918 to 1926 in the Central Criminal Courts of London to study the effect of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919. Implemented in 1921, this Act ... -
Discontinuities in the Age-Victimization Profile and the Determinants of Victimization
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Ketel, Nadine; Mitrut, Andreea (2021-12): Many rights are conferred on Dutch youth at ages 16 and 18. Using national register data for all reported victimizations, we find sharp and discontinuous increases in victimization rates at these ages: about 13% for both ... -
EFFICIENCY IN HOUSING MARKETS: DO HOME BUYERS KNOW HOW TO DISCOUNT?
Hjalmarsson, Randi; Hjalmarsson, Erik (2006)We test for efficiency in the market for Swedish co-ops by examining the negative relationship between the sales price and the present value of future rents. If the co-op housing market is efficient, the present value ... -
Politics in the Courtroom: Political Ideology and Jury Decision Making
Anwar, Shamena; Bayer, Patrick; Hjalmarsson, Randi (2015-05)This paper uses data from the Gothenburg District Court in Sweden and a research design that exploits the random assignment of politically appointed jurors (termed nämndemän) to make three contributions to the literature ... -
The Causal Effect of Military Conscription on Crime and the Labor Market
Hjalmarsson, Randi; Lindquist, Matthew J. (2016-02)This paper uses detailed individual register data to identify the causal effect of mandatory peacetime military conscription in Sweden on the lives of young men born in the 1970s and 80s. Because draftees are positively ... -
The Fall of Capital Punishment and the Rise of Prisons: How Punishment Severity Affects Jury Verdicts
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi (2016-10)This paper studies the effect of punishment severity on jury decision-making using a large archival data set from the Old Bailey Criminal Court in London from 1715 to 1900. We take advantage of three natural experiments ... -
The Impact of Abortion on Crime and Crime-Related Behavior
Hjalmarsson, Randi; Mitrut, Andreea; Pop-Eleches, Cristian (2019-06)The 1966 abolition and 1989 legalization of abortion in Romania immediately doubled and decreased by about a third the number of births per month, respectively. To isolate the link between abortion access and crime while ... -
The Impact of the First Professional Police Forces on Crime
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi (2019-10)This paper evaluates how the introduction of professional police forces affected crime using two natural experiments in history: the 1829 formation of the London Metropolitan Police (the first police force ever tasked ... -
The Persistence of the Criminal Justice Gender Gap: Evidence from 200 Years of Judicial Decisions
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi (2019-10)We document persistent gender gaps favoring females in jury convictions and judge sentences in nearly 200 years of London trials, which are unexplained by case characteristics. We find that three sharp changes in punishment ... -
Unequal Jury Representation and Its Consequences
Anwar, Shamena; Bayer, Patrick; Hjalmarsson, Randi (University of Gothenburg, 2021-03)We analyze the extent and consequences of unequal representation on juries in Harris County, Texas. We first document that residents from predominantly white and high-income neighborhoods are substantially over-represented ...