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?…
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…
For many Americans, cities have become a beacon of hope. They are widely recognized as engines of the U.S. economy and laboratories of…