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Preprint · 2025 Cities across America are adopting civilian crisis response programs as alternatives to traditional policing, yet causal evidence on their impact and cost-effectiveness is scarce. This paper evaluates Durham, North Carolina’s HEART program, which d ... Full text Cite

Mispricing Narratives after Social Unrest

Preprint · 2024 We study how negative sentiment around an industry impacts beliefs and behaviors, focusing on demands for racial justice after the murder of George Floyd and the salience of the "defund the police" movement. We assess stakeholder beliefs on the imp ... Full text Cite

Mispricing Narratives after Social Unrest

Preprint · 2024 We study how negative sentiment around an industry impacts beliefs and behaviors, focusing on demands for racial justice after the murder of George Floyd and the salience of the “defund the police” movement. We assess stakeholder beliefs on the imp ... Full text Cite

Understanding Demand for Police Alternatives

Preprint · 2024 In a series of experiments, we present evidence of bipartisan public demand for police alternatives, contrasted with persistent policy resistance from key stakeholders. First, our survey experiment demonstrates that introducing U.S. respondents to ... Full text Cite

The Relationship between Officer Misconduct and Conviction-less Arrests

Preprint · 2024 Given the use of an individual’s arrest history for many economic and social outcomes, policymakers have enacted criminal justice reform measures. This paper examines which officers are making conviction‐less arrests (arrests that result in no char ... Full text Cite

Market Response to Racial Uprisings

Preprint · 2023 Do investors anticipate that demands for racial equity will impact companies? We explore this question in the context of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement—the largest racially motivated protest movement in U.S. history—and its effect on the U. ... Full text Cite

Forecasting the Impact of Racial Uprisings, Market versus Stakeholders' Expectations

Preprint · 2023 Given police abolitionism’s new visibility after the 2020 racial justice protests, we assess stakeholder beliefs on the protests’ stock impacts on police-affiliated firms. Experts generally underestimate the firms’ stock gains, except situated expe ... Full text Cite

Officer-Involved: The Media Language of Police Killings

Preprint · 2022 This paper examines language patterns in US television news coverage of police killings. We first document that the media employ semantic structures that obfuscate responsibility—such as passive voice, nominalizations, and intransitive verbs—more f ... Full text Cite

In-Group Bias and the Police: Evidence from Award Nominations

Preprint · 2020 This paper examines the impact of in-group bias on the internal dynamics of a police department. Prior studies have documented racial bias in policing, but little is known about bias against officers due to lack of available data. We construct a no ... Full text Cite

The Effect of Police Oversight on Crime and Allegations of Misconduct: Evidence from Chicago

Preprint · 2019 Does policing the police increase crime? We avoid simultaneity effects of increased public oversight following an officer-involved shooting scandal by identifying events in Chicago that only impacted officers’ self-monitoring. We estimate crimes’ r ... Full text Cite