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…
This article studies the conditions that lead peripheral minorities to identify with the state, their ethnic group, or neighboring…
I study whether exposure to teacher stereotypes, as measured by the Gender-Science Implicit Association Test, affects student achievement.…
The Trump transition team asked the State Department last week to submit details of programs and jobs that focus on promoting gender…
Last year, at a global conference on sexual violence during war, many speakers agreed that the best way to deter such crimes was…
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…