William Arbour

Publications

• Prison Rehabilitation Programs and Recidivism: Evidence from Variations in Availability  (with Steeve Marchand and Guy Lacroix), accepted for publication at the Journal of Human Resources

  • • Link to journal (open access)

• Beyond Traditional Risk Scores: Tackling LS/CMI Offender Misclassifications with Machine Learning (with Sébastien Brouillette-Alarie, Guy Giguère, Guy Lacroix and Steeve Marchand), accepted for publication at the Journal of Quantitative Criminology

  • • Link to journal

    • Preprint version

• Normative Data, Predictive Validity, and Factor Structure of a Fourth-Generation Risk Assessment Tool (ORAC-PCQ) in a Population of Adjudicated Individuals Serving Short Sentences in the Province of Québec (Canada) (with Guy Giguère, Sébastien Brouillette-Alarie and Yanick Charette), accepted for publication at Criminal Justice and Behavior

  • • Link to journal (open access)

• The Effect of a Police Crackdown on Online Drug Sales: on the Importance of Targeting Vendors' Reputation? (with Étienne Blais, David Décary-Hêtu, Camille Gagné, Roxanne Périn-Plouffe and Arielle Chaîné), accepted for publication at International Journal of Drug Policy

  • • Link to journal (open access)

• From Twitter to the Headlines? Uncovering Social Media's Role as a Political Agenda-Building Tool During an Election (with Jérémie Drouin, Adrien Cloutier and Yannick Dufresne), accepted for publication at French Politics

Working Papers

• Can Parole Reduce Both Time Served and Crime? (with Steeve Marchand)

  • • status: revisions requested at American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

    • SSRN

• What Occupations Do (with David Price)

  • status: submitted

  • SSRN

  • Occupations statistics

• Can Recidivism Be Prevented from Behind Bars? Evidence from a Behavioral Program 

  • • link, download

    • summary

• Small Seeds, Big Returns: Delivering Student Grants Through College Savings Accounts  (with Laëtitia Renée and Fernando Saltiel)

  • • status: draft coming soon!

Work in progress

• What Does a Good Teacher Sound Like? (with Marlène Koffi and Philip Oreopoulos)