Aurélie OUSS (U of Pennsylvania)

Aurélie OUSS is the Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn). She is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and an Affiliate at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). Prior to joining UPenn, she was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago Crime Lab, working with Jens Ludwig. She was awarded her PhD in Economics in 2013 at the Harvard Department of Economics.

Her research examines how good design of criminal justice institutions and policies can make law enforcement fairer and more efficient.

Before graduate school, she worked as a research assistant for JPAL, running field experiments on microcredits and conditional cash transfers in rural Morocco. She received a BA in Economics and Sociology from École Normale Superieure (ENS), and a Master's in Economics from the Paris School of Economics (PSE).

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Professor Ouss will be visiting with us until the end of June 2024.