Nearly a thousand officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This paper documents the large, racially-disparate…
One of the core tasks of a well-functioning state is providing fair and adequate criminal justice. Recent events have raised concerns that…
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…
I study whether exposure to teacher stereotypes, as measured by the Gender-Science Implicit Association Test, affects student achievement.…
Reforming public-sector organizations--their structures, policies, processes and practices--is notoriously difficult, in rich and poor…
We collect a new dataset on capital punishment in the US and we propose a test of racial bias based upon patterns of sentence reversals. We…