Merin Sanil

.@CrimAdvStats Using propensity score matching as one of their statistical procedures, Blomberg et al. (2011) found that higher educational achievement is an important predictor of recidivism. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

.@CrimAdvStats Worrall and Kovandzic (2010) use a panel dataset and employ the instrumental variables approach to find that police presence was inversely related to four crime index rates. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

.@CrimAdvStats Hao and Cowan (2020) use the difference-in-differences design to examine the spillover effects of marijuana legalization in counties bordering non-legal states. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

.@CrimAdvStats Mitchell et al. (2016) used a regression discontinuity design in their study and found that imprisonment had little to no effect on recidivism. Alternatives to imprisonment might be more useful for non-violent/drug offenders. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@CrimAdvStats Across 5 experiments, Ariel et al. (2020) show that judgments of learning (JOL)- a strategy commonly recommended by educators for students has limited direct educational benefits. Overt retrieval has larger learning gains as compared JOL. link.springer.com/article/10.100…