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

Working Papers

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

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

    • SSRN

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

  • • link, download

    • summary

• 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)

  • • status: submitted (manuscript available upon request)

• The Impacts of Government Grants in College Savings Accounts: Evidence from the Canada Learning Bond  (with Laëtitia Renée and Fernando Saltiel)

  • • status: manuscript available upon request

Work in progress

• What Occupations Do (with David Price)

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