Stephen Paolillo is a third-year PhD student in the Economics Department at UC Davis, working as a graduate student researcher for the CPL. His research interests are in criminal justice, specifically recidivism and gun legislation. Stephen received a BA in economics with a minor in Italian from Middlebury College in 2015. Prior to graduate school, he worked for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in the Capital Markets section, working on research and policy involving bond yields, issuances, and outstandings.