Automated Court Date Reminders Reduce Warrants for Arrest: Evidence from a Text Messaging Experiment
Millions of people in the U.S. every year are required to attend mandatory court dates as their cases proceed through the criminal legal…
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…
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When does self-interest influence public opinion on contentious public policies? The bulk of theory in political science suggests that self…
Do 40-Year-Old Facts Still Matter? Long-Run Effects of Federal Oversight under the Voting Rights Act
In 2013, the Supreme Court struck down parts of the Voting Rights Act that mandated federal oversight of election laws in discriminatory…
For many Americans, cities have become a beacon of hope. They are widely recognized as engines of the U.S. economy and laboratories of…