Current Appointments & Affiliations
Assistant Professor of Economics
·
2021 - Present
Economics,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
Officer-Involved: The Media Language of Police Killings
Journal Article The Quarterly Journal of Economics · April 8, 2025 AbstractThis 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 int ... Full text CitePolitical diversity in U.S. police agencies
Journal Article American Journal of Political Science · January 1, 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 CiteJUE Insight: Hot temperatures, aggression, and death at the hands of the police: Evidence from the U.S
Journal Article Journal of Urban Economics · July 1, 2024 We study the effect of temperature on police-involved civilian deaths in the U.S. from 2000 to 2016. We show that both violent crimes and the number of officers assaulted or killed increase on warmer days (≥17°C), indicating greater personal danger to offi ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
Social Movements and Corporate Opportunities
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2026Causal Research on Alternatives to Policing
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Arnold Ventures · 2024 - 2025The Impact of Policing and Criminal Justice on Families
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by United States Naval Academy · 2022 - 2023View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
The University of Chicago ·
2018
Ph.D.