Welcome to my academic website. I am an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia with research interests in education, crime, and labor economics.
Email me: sam.norris@ubc.ca
My CV is here.
Working papers
Mobile Crisis Response Teams Support Better Policing: Evidence from CAHOOTS (with Jon Davis, Jadon Schmitt, Yotam Shem-Tov, and Chelsea Strickland)
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
Estimating Welfare Effects in a Nonparametric Choice Model: The Case of School Vouchers [Appendix] (with Vishal Kamat), accepted at Review of Economic Studies
Laffer's Day in Court: The Revenue Effects of Criminal Justice Fees and Fines (with Evan Rose), accepted at Journal of Public Economics
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), conditionally accepted at Econometrica
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 Pendaur, 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).