I am currently an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Economics at the University of Reading.
My research focuses mainly on empirical microeconomics, in particular forensic and crime economics. I also have an unhealthy interest in dynamic causal inference models. Here is my CV.
I obtained my undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and my PhD at the Tinbergen Institute and the University of Amsterdam. I joined the faculty at the University of Mannheim in 2013. Unfortunately, in mid 2015 I suffered a neck injury which affected my nervous system and collapsed my immune system, preventing me from doing any work from 2016 to 2019. After a long battle, I returned to research in 2020. In 2022-2023, I also took a year sabbatical working as a Senior Data Scientist for Deliveroo where I built a first integrated causal model for consumer purchasing behaviour.
You can get in touch with me at: s.p.kastoryano@reading.ac.uk
Publications:
Street Prostitution Zones and Crime (with P. Bisschop & B. van der Klaauw), 2017, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
[Estimation code in Stata and R tipp_code]
media coverage: Nature, Marginal Revolution, Vox, Cato Institute
Dynamic Evaluation of Job Search Assistance
(with B. van der Klaauw), 2022,
Journal of Applied Econometrics
[Estimation code in Ox and Stata
dyn_code]
Unseen Annihilation: Illegal Fishing Practices and Nautical Patrol
(with B. Vollaard), 2023,
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
[Estimation code in Python and R
fishy_code]
media coverage: VoxEU
Working papers:
Biological, Behavioural and Spurious Selection on the Kidney Transplant Waitlist
Strategic Bureaucratic Opacity: Evidence from Death Investigation Laws and Police Killings (with E. Celislami and G. Mastrobuoni)
[Estimation code and data coming soon]
Uncovering Strategic Wealth Tax Evasion through Auditing Announcements (short version)