Welcome to my academic website. I am an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia with research interests in crime and labor economics. I am also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
- Email: sam.norris@ubc.ca
- My CV is here.
- Grad students, sign up for office hours here.
Working papers
- Conviction, Incarceration, and Policy Effects in the Criminal Justice System (with Vishal Kamat and Matt Pecenco)
- Identification in Multiple Treatment Models under Discrete Variation (with Vishal Kamat and Matt Pecenco)
- Examiner Inconsistency: Evidence from Refugee Decisions, revise and resubmit at AEJ: Applied
Publications
- Mobile Crisis Response Teams Support Better Policing: Evidence from CAHOOTS (with Jon Davis, Jadon Schmitt, Yotam Shem-Tov, and Chelsea Strickland), conditionally accepted at American Economic Review
- Estimating Welfare Effects in a Nonparametric Choice Model: The Case of School Vouchers [Appendix] (with Vishal Kamat), Review of Economic Studies (2025)
- The Impact of Incarceration on Employment, Earnings, and Tax Filing (with Andy Garin, Dmitri Koustas, Carl McPherson, Matt Pecenco, Evan Rose, Yotam Shem-Tov, and Jeff Weaver), Econometrica (2025)
- Laffer's Day in Court: The Revenue Effects of Criminal Justice Fees and Fines (with Evan Rose), Journal of Public Economics (2024)
- In-Kind Transfers as Insurance (with Lucie Gadenne, Sandip Sukhtankar, and Monica Singhal), American Economic Review (2024)
- The Effect of Incarceration on Mortality (with Matthew Pecenco and Jeffrey Weaver), Review of Economics and Statistics (2024)
- Consumption peer effects and utility needs in India (with Arthur Lewbel, Krishna Pendakur, and Xi Qu), Quantitative Economics (2022)
- The Effects of Parental and Sibling Incarceration: Evidence from Ohio (with Matthew Pecenco and Jeffrey Weaver), American Economic Review (2021) Non-technical summary. Media: Plain Dealer, The Economist.
- Rise and shine: The effect of school start times on academic performance from childhood through puberty (with Jennifer Heissel), Journal of Human Resources (2017) Media: The Atlantic, Brookings, Chalkbeat, Wisconsin Public Radio.
- Consumption Inequality in Canada, 1997–2009 (with Krishna Pendakur), Canadian Journal of Economics (2015)
- Imputing Rent in Consumption Measures (with Krishna Pendakur), Canadian Journal of Economics (2013)