Overview
Bayer's research focuses on wide range of subjects including racial inequality and segregation, social interactions, housing markets, education, and criminal justice. His most recent work has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, Econometrica, and the Review of Financial Studies. He is currently working on projects that examine jury representation and its consequences, the intergenerational consequences of residential and school segregation, neighborhood tipping, gentrification, the effect of police and criminal justice interactions on families, and the impact of bail reform.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Gilhuly Family Distinguished Professor in Economics
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2018 - Present
Economics,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor of Economics
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2009 - Present
Economics,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Associate Chair of Economics
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2020 - Present
Economics,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Faculty Research Scholar of DuPRI's Population Research Center
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2010 - Present
Duke Population Research Center,
Duke Population Research Institute
Recent Publications
Distinguishing Causes of Neighborhood Racial Change: A Nearest-Neighbor Design
Journal Article American Economic Review · November 1, 2025 We study neighborhood choice using a novel research design that contrasts the move rate of homeowners who receive a new different-race neighbor immediately next-door versus slightly farther away on the same block. This approach isolates a component of pref ... Full text CiteOFFICER-INVOLVED: THE MEDIA LANGUAGE OF POLICE KILLINGS
Journal Article Quarterly Journal of Economics · May 1, 2025 This article examines language patterns in U.S. television news coverage of police killings. First, we document that the media use syntactic structures—such as passive voice, nominalizations, and intransitive verbs—that obscure responsibility more often in ... Full text CiteRacial inequality in the labor market☆
Conference Handbook of Labor Economics · January 1, 2025 In this chapter, we introduce a new framework for studying the evolution of racial inequality in the labor market. The framework encompasses two broad forces—distributional and positional—that affect labor market gaps by racial and ethnic identity over tim ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
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ResearchSenior Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2017 - 2022Large State Space Issues in Dynamic Models
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2011 - 2014Collaborative Research: Asymptotic Properties for Partially Identified Models
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2006 - 2013View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
Stanford University ·
1999
Ph.D.
Princeton University ·
1994
B.A.