The slides below are the materials that I prepared for the Journal Club activity for the department of Criminology in the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law. I presented it on 21. Jan. 2026. 

I used the Econometrica paper from Garin et al. (2025) to explain the causal inference techniques in economics to my colleagues, most of them are from psychology or criminology backgrounds. 

References

• Garin, Andrew, Dmitri Koustas, Carl McPherson, Samuel Norris, Matthew Pecenco, Evan K. Rose, Yotam Shem‐Tov, and Jeffrey Weaver. "The impact of incarceration on employment, earnings, and tax filing." Econometrica 93, no. 2 (2025): 503-538.

• Imbens, Guido W. "Causal inference in the social sciences." Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application 11 (2024).

• Norris, Samuel, Matthew Pecenco, and Jeffrey Weaver. "The effects of parental and sibling incarceration: Evidence from ohio." American Economic Review 111, no. 9 (2021): 2926-2963.

• Rose, Evan K., and Yotam Shem-Tov. "How does incarceration affect reoffending? Estimating the dose-response function." Journal of Political Economy 129, no. 12 (2021): 3302-3356.