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Appendix
Biographical Sketches of
Committee Members and Staff
Daniel S. Nagin (Chair) is Teresa and H. John Heinz III university professor
of public policy and statistics in the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon Uni-
versity. His research focuses on the evolution of criminal and antisocial be-
haviors over the life course, the deterrent effect of criminal and noncriminal
penalties on illegal behaviors, and the development of statistical methods
for analyzing longitudinal data. His work has appeared in such diverse out-
lets as the American Economic Review, the American Sociological Review,
the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Archives of General
Psychiatry, Psychological Methodology, Law & Society Review, and Stanford
Law Review. He is an elected fellow of the American Society of Criminol-
ogy and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and
he was the 2006 recipient of the American Society of Criminology’s Edwin
H. Sutherland Award. He holds a Ph.D. from the H. John Heinz III School
of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University.
Kerwin K. Charles is the Edwin and Betty L. Bergman distinguished service
professor in the Harris School of public policy studies at the University
of Chicago and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic
Research. His research focuses on a range of subjects in the broad area of
applied microeconomics, including how mandated minimum marriage ages
affects young people’s marriage and migration behavior; the effect of racial
composition of neighborhoods on the social connections people make;
differences in visible consumption across racial and ethnic groups; the ef-
fect of retirement on subjective well-being; and the propagation of wealth
across generations within a family. His recent work has studied the degree
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to which prejudice can account for wages and employment differences by
race and gender. He has a Ph.D. from Cornell University.
Philip J. Cook is the ITT/Sanford professor of public policy and professor
of economics and sociology at Duke University. Previously, he served as
director and chair of Duke’s Sanford Institute of Public Policy, and he has
been a visiting scholar at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
University. He has served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice
(Criminal Division) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Enforcement
Division). He has published on a wide range of topics, including punish-
ment, deterrence of crime, the costs of crime, homicide and economic
conditions, and the epidemic in youth violence of the late 1980s and early
1990s. His other research interests include evaluation methods; public
health policy; and the regulation of alcohol, guns, and gambling. He is a
member of the Institute of Medicine. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from
the University of California at Berkeley.
Steven N. Durlauf is the Kenneth J. Arrow and Laurents R. Christensen
professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a re-
search associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Previously,
he served as director of the economics program at the Santa Fe Institute and
as general editor of the revised edition of the New Palgrave Dictionary of
Economics. His primary research interests involve the integration of the so-
cial influences into the theoretical and statistical analysis of economic phe-
nomena, and he has also studied issues related to racial profiling, deterrence
and imprisonment, and deterrence and death penalty. He is a fellow of the
Econometric Society. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University.
Amelia M. Haviland holds the Anna Loomis McCandless chair at the Heinz
College at Carnegie Mellon University, and she is a senior statistician at
RAND. Her research focuses on causal analysis with observational data and
analysis of longitudinal and complex survey data with applications in health,
criminology, and economics. Her methodological work has included new
methods to combine semi-parametric mixture modeling for longitudinal data
with propensity score approaches to causal modeling and methods for creat-
ing minimum mean squared error composite estimates from a combination
of probability and nonprobability samples. She is a recipient of the Thomas
Lord Scholarship Award from the RAND Institute for Civil Justice. She holds
a Ph.D. in statistics and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University.
Gerard E. Lynch is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit, and he is the Paul J. Kellner professor of law at the Columbia Uni-
versity School of Law. Previously, he served on the U.S. District Court for
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the Southern District of New York. Prior to his appointment to the bench,
he served as vice dean of the Columbia University School of Law. His main
areas of expertise include sentencing and criminal law and procedure. He
is a recipient of the Edward Weinfeld Award for Distinguished Contribu-
tions to the Administration of Justice from the New York County Lawyers’
Association and of the Wien Prize for Social Responsibility from Columbia
University. He holds degrees from Columbia College and the Columbia Uni-
versity School of Law.
Charles F. Manski is a Board of Trustees professor in economics at North-
western University. Previously, he served on the faculties of the University
of Wisconsin–Madison, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Carnegie
Mellon University. His research spans econometrics, judgment and decision,
and the analysis of social policy. He is an elected member of the National
Academy of Sciences and an elected fellow of the Econometric Society, the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Association for
the Advancement of Science. He holds a B.S. and a Ph.D. in economics from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
John V. Pepper is associate professor of economics at the University of
Virginia. His research focuses on program evaluation methods, applied
econometrics, and public economics. He has published widely on a range
of topics, including evaluation of criminal justice data and programs, food
assistance programs, health and disability programs, and welfare programs.
He is on the board of the Michigan Retirement Research Center and of
the Southern Economics Association. He is a coeditor of the Southern
Economic Journal, and he served as a guest editor for a special issue of
the American Journal of Law and Economics, which focused on empirical
research on the death penalty. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the
University of Wisconsin–Madison.
James Q. Wilson was the Reagan professor of public policy at Pepperdine
University and a distinguished scholar in the Department of Political Sci-
ence and senior fellow at the Clough Center at Boston College. Previously,
he was the Shattuck professor of government at Harvard University and
the James Collins professor of management and public policy at the Uni-
versity of California at Los Angeles. His national positions related to issues
of public policy included chair of the White House Task Force on Crime,
chair of the National Advisory Commission on Drug Abuse Prevention,
member of the Attorney General’s Task Force on Violent Crime, member
of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, and member of the
board of directors of the Police Foundation. He held a Ph.D. from the
University of Chicago.
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