The study of urban and local politics in the United States has long been hindered by a lack of centralized sources of election data. We…
This paper documents the impact of popular media on racial hate by examining the first American blockbuster: 1915's The Birth of a Nation,…
How do media portrayals of potential policy beneficiaries’ identities sway public support for these policies in a public health setting?…
We develop a framework to measure the role of hospital allocation in racial disparities in health care and use it to study Black and white…
Policymakers, conceptualized here as principals, disagree as to whether US student performance has changed over the past half century. To…
Do urban children live more segregated lives than urban adults? Using cellphone location data and following the ‘experienced isolation’…
Principals (policymakers) disagree as to whether U. S. student performance has changed over the past half century. To inform conversations…
How do high-profile acts of police brutality affect public trust and cooperation with law enforcement? To investigate this question, we…
Nearly 1,000 officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This article documents the large, racially disparate effects…
Roughly a thousand people are killed by American law enforcement officers each
year, accounting for more than 5% of all homicides. We…