How do high-profile acts of police brutality affect public trust and cooperation with law enforcement? To investigate this question, we…
States and districts are increasingly incorporating measures of achievement growth into their school accountability systems, but there is…
How can we improve academic achievement and college attainment for disadvantaged students? To address this question, education researchers…
How do the different elements in the standard bundle of property rights, including those of possession and transfer, influence the shape of…
A central challenge in securing property rights is the subversion of justice. We present a model of a polluter whose discharges harm…
For decades, social theorists have posited—and descriptive accounts have shown—that students isolated by both social class and ethnicity…
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…