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Aaron Chalfin

Associate Professor of Criminology · University of Pennsylvania

Associate Professor and Graduate Chair of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. Studies the costs and benefits of policing, police officers' preferences, place-based crime prevention and crime victimization. PhD in Public Policy, UC Berkeley (2013).

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Published American Economic Review Published Aug 2026

Professional Motivations in the Public Sector: Evidence from Police Officers

Aaron Chalfin · Felipe Gonçalves

This paper studies how public sector workers balance professional motivations against private economic concerns, using arrest decisions by Dallas Police Department (DPD) officers as the empirical …

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