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David A. Rivers
Associate Professor |
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Fields of Interest: Industrial Organization, Productivity, Economics of Crime, Applied Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics |
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Contact Information |
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Office #: 4024 Social Science Centre
London, ON N6A 5C2 Canada Office Phone: (519) 661-2111 ext. 80446 drivers2 (at) uwo.ca |
Research
Working Papers
“The Heterogeneous Impact of Referrals on Labor Market Outcomes,”
Revision Requested by the Review of Economic Studies (with Benjamin Lester and Giorgio Topa).
“Criminal Discount Factors and Deterrence,”
Reject and Resubmit at the Review of Economic Studies (with Giovanni Mastrobuoni).
“Are Exporters More Productive than Non-Exporters?”
working paper.
Published Papers
“Financial Shocks, Productivity, and Prices,”
conditionally accepted by the Review of Economic Studies (with Simone Lenzu and Joris Tielens).
“The ABCs of Firm Heterogeneity when Firms Sort into Markets: The Case of Exporters,”
Journal of Political Economy, 132(4), 2024 (with Bernardo S. Blum, Sebastian Claro, and Ignatius Horstmann).
“Optimizing Criminal Behavior and the Disutility of Prison,”
The Economic Journal, 129(619), 2019 (with Giovanni Mastrobuoni).
“Separating State Dependence, Experience, and Heterogeneity in a Model of Youth Crime and Education,”
Economics of Education Review, 54, 2016 (with Maria Antonella Mancino and Salvador Navarro).
“Model Uncertainty and the Effect of Shall-Issue Right-to-Carry Laws on Crime,”
European Economic Review, 81, 2016 (with Steven N. Durlauf and Salvador Navarro).
“Understanding Aggregate Crime Regressions,”
Journal of Econometrics, 158(2), 2010 (with Steven N. Durlauf and Salvador Navarro).
“On the Interpretation of Aggregate Crime Regressions,”
in R. Rosenfeld and A. S. Goldberger (eds.), Understanding Crime Trends, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C. (with Steven N. Durlauf and Salvador Navarro).
Work in Progress
“Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of the Bias of Technological Change”
working paper (with Salvador Navarro).
“Ex-Post Merger Analysis Using Production Data”
working paper (with Bernardo S. Blum, Sebastian Claro, and Ignatius Horstmann).
Featured by The Economist, March 29, 2016.
Featured by Indian Newslink, July 12, 2017.
A previous version of the paper:
“Identifying Production Functions Using Restrictions from Economic Theory”
Featured by Marginal Revolution, May 29, 2017.
Featured by Quartz, June 1, 2017.
