Glaeser, EdwardKatz, LawrenceAlesina, AlbertoShleifer, AndreiDevi, Tanaya2020-09-152020-032020-01-222020Devi, Tanaya. 2020. Essays in the Economics of Crime and Education. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37365106My dissertation deals with topics in crime and education. In the first chapter (joint with Prof. Roland G. Fryer Jr.), I study the impact of federal and state “pattern-or-practice" investigations on crime and policing. In the second chapter, I analyze an unprecedented dataset from the Indian Judiciary for in-group biases among judges. In the third chapter (joint with Prof. Roland G. Fryer Jr. and Prof. Richard T. Holden), I study the impact of differently aligned incentives on student achievement.application/pdfenLabor-economicsMicro-EconomicsCrimeEducationThesis or Dissertation2020-09-15