Stephen Kastoryano

I am currently an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Economics at the University of Reading.

My research focuses mainly on empirical microeconomics, in particular crime and forensic economics. I also have an unhealthy interest in non-standard causal decomposition frameworks. Here is my CV.

Here a somewhat uncommon CV summary: 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 as an Assistant Professor 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. I returned to research in 2020 after a long battle, with bumpy, yet continued, improvement since then. 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:

Causally Evaluating Selection on the Kidney Transplant Waitlist
[Estimation code in R kidney_code]

Strategic Bureaucratic Opacity: Evidence from Death Investigation Laws and Police Killings (with E. Celislami and G. Mastrobuoni)
[Estimation code in R and ready to use dataset deathinvpolice_code]

The Unintended Consequences of Tax Code Complexity

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