Biography

Daniel Cunha Bystrom is a research economist at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics (LSE). He is also a postdoctoral researcher at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University. He obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Gothenburg.

Current areas of research include:

• Economics of crime: Criminal networks and peer effects; Gang recruitment and criminal careers; Family transmission of criminal behaviour; Crime and economic inequality.
• Labour economics: Employer responses to criminal records; Local labour-market effects of violence; Barriers to employment and economic reintegration.