Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
Kathleen Kaylor and G. Richard Wagoner, Jr. Assistant Professor of Economics
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2026 - Present
Economics,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Assistant Professor of Economics
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2021 - Present
Economics,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Scholarly Works
The relationship between officer misconduct and convictionless arrests.
Journal article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · August 2026 This paper examines whether officers with high prior alleged misconduct are more likely to make convictionless arrests (arrests that result in no or dismissed charges or where the defendant is found not guilty). Using the Chicago Police Department's rotati ... Full text CiteAlternatives to 911
Journal article · 2026 Almost a quarter-billion calls are placed to 911 each year in the United States. A large share of them involve social problems, not crimes or emergencies---yet police are dispatched in response. This review traces how the 911 emergency system&a ... Full text CiteThe Effect of Police Oversight on Crime and Misconduct Allegations: Evidence from Chicago
Journal article Review of Economics and Statistics · January 1, 2026 Does police oversight increase crime? Studies examining this relationship often rely on major scandals as shocks, but the simultaneous effect of public outrage on officer behavior and crime contaminates the results. Using a framework distinguishing oversig ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
The Effect of Police Alternatives on Public Safety Outcomes in Durham, NC
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Arnold Ventures · 2025 - 2027Social Movements and Corporate Opportunities
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2026AV Fellowship Postdoc - Shinjini Pandey
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Social Science Research Council · 2025 - 2026View All Grants
Education
The University of Chicago ·
2018
Ph.D.