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Dr Priscillia Evelyne Hunt
1776 Main Street
Santa Monica, CA 90407
T: +1.310.393.0411 ext 8390
E: phunt@rand.org
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Economics University of Warwick, 2011
Thesis: “Wages, Discrimination & Well-being: Is immigration worth it?”
Supervisors: Professor Ian Walker, Dr Jennifer Smith
Referees: Dr Christian Dustmann, Dr Robin Naylor
M.A. Economics University of Connecticut, 2005
Thesis: “Supply and demand for undocumented workers in the US”
Supervisor: Dr Kenneth Couch
B.A. International Trade L’Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Montpellier, 2002
B.A. International Business Texas Tech University, 2001
EMPLOYMENT AND AFFILIATIONS
08/2012-Present Associate Economist, RAND (California)
03/2012-Present
Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA, Germany)
10/2008-04/2012 Senior Analyst, RAND Europe (UK and Belgium)
2008 summer Graduate Summer Associate, RAND (California)
01/2008-06/2008 Teaching Assistant, Strategy, London School of Economics
2006 – 2007 Research Assistant, Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation
2005 – 2006 Teaching Assistant, Micro-/Macro-economics, University of Warwick
2005 Research Assistant, Connecticut Center of Economic Analysis
2003 – 2004 Event Inventory Management Associate, Antigua Group Inc.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
General Field: Applied Economics and Econometrics
Specialized Fields: Program Evaluation (especially crime, drug and migration policies),
Workforce modeling, Productivity Measurement (especially police)

COMPLETED REPORTS, WORKING PAPERS AND ARTICLES
Hunt, P. (2012). “From the bottom to the top: A more complete picture of the immigrant-native
wage gap in Britain,” IZA Journal of Migration, 1:9.
Pacula, R.L., S. Kadiyala, P. Hunt and A. Malchiodi (2012). “An alternative framework for
empirically assessing changes in the size of counterfeit markets,” National Bureau of
Economic Research, NBER Working Paper No. 18171.
S. Hoorens, P. Hunt, A. Malchiodi, R. L. Pacula, S. Kadiyala, L. Rabinovich and B. Irving
(2012). “Measuring IPR infringements in the internal market: Development of a new
approach to estimating the impact of infringements on sales,” RAND Europe report for the
European Commission, DG Internal Market and Services, Report TR-1279-EC.
Rabinovich, L., P. Hunt, S. Goshev, L. Staetsky, E. Nolte, C. Tiefensee and J. Peterson (2012).
“Further study on alcohol affordability in the European Union,” RAND Europe report for
Executive Agency of Health and Consumers, Report TR-1203-EC.
Rohr, C., U. Trinkner, A. Lawrence, P. Hunt, C. Woo, D. Potoglou and R. Sheldon (2011).
“Study on Appropriate Methodologies to Better Measure Consumer Preferences for Postal
Services,” Studies and Reports, Swiss Economics, 1-136.
Hunt, P., B. Kilmer, and J. Rubin (2011). “Development of a European Crime Report,” RAND
Europe report for the European Commission Directorate General Home Affairs,” Report TR-
936-EC.
Hunt, P., L. Rabinovich, and B. Baumberg (2010). “Preliminary assessment of potential
economic impacts of alcohol pricing policy options,” RAND Europe report for the UK Home
Office, Report TR-858-HO.
Hunt, P., B. Irving, and L. Farnia (2010). “Workforce Modernisation Programme: An outline
labour economics model to test the Police workforce ‘Resilience Hypothesis’,” RAND
Europe report for the National Policing Improvement Agency, Report TR-838-NPIA.
Hassan, E., C. Austin, P. Hunt, E. Celia, E. Disley, L. Villalba van Dijk, S. Maranjovic, A.
Shehabi, and C. van Stolk (2009). “Health and wellbeing at work in the United Kingdom,”
RAND Europe for the Department of Health, Report TR-758-DH.
Pacula, R. L., S. Hoorens, P. Reuter, B. Kilmer, J. Burgdorf, and P. Hunt (2009). “Issues in
estimating the economics cost of drug abuse in consuming nations,” RAND Corporation for
the European Commission, Report TR-709-EC.
CURRENT PROJECTS
National Institute of Drug Abuse Role: Investigator 9/2011 – 08/2015
“Implementation of Medical Marijuana and Its Impact on Health”
The overall goal of this four-year project is to provide the most complete accounting to date of
the nuanced features of medical marijuana laws and their implications for health at three
geographic levels: state, county and local neighborhoods. County and local analyses are limited
to California.

National Institute of Justice Role: Investigator 10/2012 – 3/2015
“National Evaluation of District Attorney Diversion Programs”
Pre-Trial Diversion is a program offered to certain offenders who qualify for participation as an
alternative to prosecution. Participants receive coordinated assistance in personal and group
counseling, drug and alcohol rehabilitation and other community agencies appropriate to their
needs. The purpose of this 30-month project is to better understand the effectiveness and costs
associated with a diversity of defendant samples and program sites. We will analyze the process,
impacts and costs of district attorney’s pretrial diversion programs in multiple sites.
National Institute of Justice Role: Investigator 10/2012 – 9/2015
“Evaluation of a Police Training Program to Prevent/Intervene in Domestic Radicalization”
To help the U.S. government counter domestic radicalization, RAND will evaluate a law
enforcement training program in different geographic locations to assess the near-term and
longer-term impacts. We focus primarily on tools designed for state, local, and tribal law
enforcement officers to understand, detect, deter, and investigate acts of terrorism in the United
States by both international and domestic terrorists.
National Institute of Justice Role: Investigator 10/2009 – 9/2013
“Predictive Policing: Analytical and Evaluation Research Support”
The purpose of this 4-year project is to evaluate sites conducting predictive policing projects.
Sites have implemented a predictive police strategy for a number of reasons including for
example to reduce tactical crime. RAND is responsible for evaluating the processes and costs of
implementation and to provide research support in conducting the evaluation methodology to
understand project impacts within a site (between their control and treatment groups).
INVITED PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES
“Alcohol pricing policy options: implications for inflation and excise duty pass-through,” The
price of alcohol and harms in the UK (London, Cabinet Office), February 2012.
“Economic implications of improved malaria control: A CGE approach to health-induced labour
improvements,” Sustainable Development Conference on Malaria (Wilton Park, UK),
February 2012.
“How big is the business of addictions?”, Briefing to UK Science Media Centre journalists,
November 2011.
“Business-side of addictions”, Alcohol Policy in Poland and around the Europe: Medical and
Economic Disadvantages of Using Alcohol (Poland), September 2011.
“A method to estimate the size, scope and impact of counterfeiting and piracy in the European
Union,” joint presentation with Stijn Hoorens, Meeting of Member States' representatives to
the European Observatory on Counterfeiting and Piracy (Hungary), May 2011.
“Developing a Blueprint for a European Crime Report”, presentation to the Expert Group on
Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics Meeting of European Commission DG HOME
(Belgium), December 2010.
“Preliminary assessment of economic implications of alcohol pricing policies in the UK”,
Alcohol pricing policy meeting of UK ministries and agencies (UK), March 2010.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Committees & Roles
2011 – 2012 RAND Europe Quality Assurance Deputy Manager
2010 Advisory panel “Cost-benefit analysis and governance of alcohol policy”
2008 Creator/Chair, New employee Brown Bag Series
2006 Creator/Chair, Warwick Economic Ph.D. Candidate Presentation Series
Reviewer for
Addiction, Journal of Drug Policy Analysis, Economics
COMPUTER SKILLS
Data Analysis: STATA (Advanced), GAMS (Intermediate), UCINET (Intermediate), EViews
(Basic), R (Basic), SAS (Basic) and SPSS (Basic)
Productivity Software: Latex, Lyx, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, FileMakerPro, Sharepoint,
Zotero, EndNote, etc.
MISCELLANEOUS
Citizenship: US, France
Languages: English (native), French (fluent)