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Affiliated PhD Student

Wilson Hernandez

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PhD Student, Criminology, School of Arts & Sciences

About

Wilson is a researcher interested in how urban and social interventions impact crime victimization. He focuses on Latin America, and in particular Peru, in an effort to analyze the side effects of interventions and policies that, by improving neighborhoods, create advantages or negative outcomes in people’s lives, with an emphasis on gender and racial inequalities.

Currently, Wilson is a Ph.D. student in Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. He studied Economics in Peru and obtained a master’s degree in comparative development studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris. Wilson has worked as a researcher at GRADE (Peru) on issues related to policing, gender-based violence, and justice, where he led studies that achieved key policy changes.

Faculty Fellow

John MacDonald

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Professor of Criminology and Sociology

Director of the Master of Science in Criminology

About

John M. MacDonald is a Professor of Criminology and Sociology in the School of Arts and Sciences. He focuses primarily on the study of interpersonal violence, race, and ethnic disparities in criminal justice, and the effect of public policy responses on crime. His contributions to public policy research include numerous studies using rigorous, quasi-experimental and experimental designs showing the effects of social policies on crime, of institutional social justice reforms on crime, and the health effects of various policy interventions. He was awarded the Young Experimental Scholar Award by the Academy of Experimental Criminology for significant contributions to experimental research. He also received the David N. Kershaw Award for distinguished contribution to the field of public policy analysis and management from the American Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology.

Selected Publications

MacDonald, J., Branas, C., & Stokes, R. (2019). Changing Places: The Science and Art of New Urban Planning. Princeton University Press.

Ridgeway, Greg and John M MacDonald. 2017. “Effect of Rail Transit on Crime: A Study of Los Angeles from 1988 to 2014.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 33 (2): 277-291.

Chirico, Michael, Robert Inman, Charles Loeffler, John MacDonald, and Holger Sieg. 2017 “Procrastination and Property Tax Compliance: Evidence from a Field Experiment.” National Bureau of Economic Research 23243.

Kondo, MC, SH Han, GH Donovan, and JM MacDonald. 2017. “The association between urban trees and crime: Evidence from the spread of the emerald ash borer in Cincinnati.” Landscape and Urban Planning 157: 193-199

MacDonald, JM, N Nicosia, and BD Ukert. 2017. “Do Schools Cause Crime in Neighborhoods? Evidence from the Opening of Schools in Philadelphia.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 1-24.

Branas, CC, MC Kondo, SM Murphy, EC South, D Polsky, and JM MacDonald. 2016. “Urban blight remediation as a cost-beneficial solution to firearm violence.” American Journal of Public Health 106(12): 2158-2164.

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