Current Appointments & Affiliations
Assistant Professor of Economics
·
2021 - Present
Economics,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
Alternatives to 911
Journal Article SSRN Electronic Journal · 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 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 CitePolitical diversity in U.S. police agencies.
Journal Article American journal of political science · February 2025 Partisans are divided on policing policy, which may affect officer behavior. We merge rosters from 99 of the 100 largest local U.S. agencies-over one third of local law enforcement agents nationwide-with voter files to study police partisanship. Police ske ... 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.