Research Interests

Prof. Anna Bindler's, Ph.D. research interests broadly lie in the areas of Applied Microeconomics and Labour Economics, with particular interests in the Economics of Crime and Empirical Law and Economics. In her research, Prof. Anna Bindler, Ph.D. applies micro-econometric methods to research questions within these fields using data from a variety of sources, including aggregate-level panel data, individual-level administrative and/or survey data as well as data collected and transcribed from historical sources.
 

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Bindler, Anna and Nadine Ketel (2022) "Scaring or scarring? Labour market effects of criminal victimisation", Journal of Labor Economics, 40(4): 939-970. [Awarded the "Wissenschaftspreis Opferschutz 2023" by WEISSER RING and Bundeskriminalamt; more information here (in German).]

• Bindler, Anna and Randi Hjalmarsson (2021) "The impact of the first professional police forces on crime", Journal of the European Economic Association, 19(6): 3063-3103.

• Bindler, Anna and Randi Hjalmarsson (2020) "The persistence of the criminal justice gender gap: Evidence from 200 years of judicial decisions", Journal of Law & Economics, 63(2): 297-339. 

• Bindler, Anna and Randi Hjalmarsson (2019) "Path dependency in jury decision-making", Journal of the European Economic Association, 17(6): 1971-2017. 

• Bindler, Anna and Randi Hjalmarsson (2018) "How punishment severity affects jury verdicts: Evidence from two natural experiments", American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 10(4): 36-78. (A previous working paper version can be found here.)

• Bell, Brian, Anna Bindler and Stephen Machin (2018) "Crime scars: Recessions and the making of career criminals", Review of Economics and Statistics, 100(3): 392-404.

• Bindler, Anna and Randi Hjalmarsson (2017) "Prisons, recidivism and the age-crime profile", Economics Letters, 152: 46-49.

Other publications

• Bindler, Anna and Randi Hjalmarsson (2022) "Hur strängare straff påverkar sannolikheten för bestraffning", Ekonomisk Debatt, 4/2022.

• Bindler, Anna and Randi Hjalmarsson (2021) "Do police reduce crime? Evidence from the 1829 introduction of the London Metropolitan Police", CAGE Policy Briefing, no.31.

• Bindler, Anna, Randi Hjalmarsson, and Nadine Ketel (2020) "Costs of Victimization". In: Dave Marcotte and Klaus Zimmermann (eds) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham.

Working Papers

• "Discontinuities in the age-victimization profile and the determinants of victimization" (with Randi Hjalmarsson, Nadine Ketel and Andreea Mitrut).

• "Murphy's Law or Luck of the Irish? Disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th century courts" (with Randi Hjalmarsson, Stephen Machin and Melissa Rubio) [CEP Discussion Paper] [ECONtribute Discussion Paper] [CEPR Discussion Paper]

• "Women in policing, gender norms and police decisions" (with Randi Hjalmarsson) 

• "Unemployment and crime' revisited: Evidence from temporary benefit extensions", revise and resubmit.

Work in progress

• "Labor demand and workforce diversity: Evidence from two natural experiments" (with Barbara Boelmann, Lena Janys, and Luisa Santiago Wolf)

•  "The hidden cost of crime: Crime victimization and mental health" (with Juliane Hennecke, Nadine Ketel, Gail Pacheco, and Alexandra Turcu)