Ph.D. in economics, University of Warwick (UK); M.A. in economics, University of Connecticut; B.A. in international commerce, L'Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Montpellier (France); B.A. in international business, Texas Tech University
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More ExpertsPriscillia Hunt is an economist at the RAND Corporation, a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, and research fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). Her research interests focus on the economics of crime, including criminal behavior, operations of the criminal justice system, and criminal justice policy. Hunt recently completed a set of survey-based experiments to better understand employers' preferences for policies designed to improve the labor market outcomes of people with criminal records. She also conducted a series of cost-effectiveness analyses of pre-trial diversion and deferred prosecution programs in California, Illinois, and Vermont; studies on the impact of ‘predictive policing’ strategies on crime in both experimental and quasi-experimental settings; and several legal and economic studies on the impact of medical marijuana laws on health, safety, and legal outcomes. Her current studies include an assessment of providing m-health and m-learning in jail settings and an analysis of the patterns of work of police officers, judges/clerks, and probation officers. Hunt is active on Twitter at @priscilliahunt. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Warwick.
Jackson, B., V. Towe, L. Wagner, P. Hunt, S. Greathouse, and J. Hollywood, "Managing Officer Behavioural Risk Using Early Intervention Systems: Addressing System Design Challenges for Law Enforcement and Corrections Environments," Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 10(2), 2016
Saunders, J., P. Hunt, and J. Hollywood, "Predictions Put Into Practice: A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of Chicago's Predictive Policing Pilot," Journal of Experimental Criminology, 0, 2016
Hunt, P., J. Anderson, and J. Saunders, "The price of justice: New national and state-level estimates of the judicial and legal costs of crime to taxpayers," American Journal of Criminal Justice, 0, 2016
Hunt, P. and J. Miles, "An Introduction to Monte Carlo Simulations in Criminal Psychology: Applications in Evaluating Biased Estimators for Recidivism," Journal of Criminal Psychology, 5(2), 2015
Hunt, P. and J. Miles, "The Impact of Legalizing and Regulating Weed: Issues with Study Design and Emerging Findings in the USA," Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, 0, 2015
Heaton, P., P. Hunt, J. Saunders, and J. MacDonald, "Short- and Long-Run Effects of Private Law Enforcement: Evidence from University Police," Journal of Law and Economics, 59(4), 2016
Pacula, R.L., A. Boustead, and P. Hunt, "Words Can Be Deceiving: A Review of Variation Among Legally Effective Medical Marijuana Laws in the United States," Journal of Drug Policy Analysis, 7(1), 2014
P. Hunt, R. Smart, L. Jonsson, and F. Tsang , Breaking Down Barriers: Experiments into Policies That Might Incentivize Employers to Hire Ex-Offenders, RAND (RR-2142), 2018
