Randi Hjalmarsson is a Professor at the University of Gothenburg and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Professor Hjalmarsson’s current research focuses on identifying the dynamics of jury decision making, the causal effects of the demographic composition of juries on verdicts, and other empirical questions in the economics of crime. She received her PhD in economics from Yale University in 2005 and was previously a Professor at Queen Mary University of London and Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, School of Public Policy.

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Murphy’s Law versus the luck of the Irish: Disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th-century courts
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The price of becoming an adult

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Unequal jury representation and its consequences
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The impact of the first professional police forces on crime
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Path dependency in jury decision making
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