The article explores the ways in which pretrial incarceration affects job retention, job-seeking, and relative confidence or lack of…
November 2022. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Alex Keyssar, the Matthew W. Stirling, Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at…
November 10, 2022. GrowthPolicy is proud to present "Dispatches from COP27". This is the second in several posts from…
November 7, 2022. GrowthPolicy is proud to present "Dispatches from COP27". This is the first in several posts from our…
Reducing Racial Inequality in Crime and Justice: Science, Practice, and Policy synthesizes the evidence on community-based solutions,…
Segmented pricing would benefit lower-income residents and ease costly enforcement measures.
The leaders of America’s cities could take a…
October 10, 2022, Opinion: "Discrimination is both a societal and a business issue. And, the extent to which discrimination is allowed to…
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Social Costs of Pretrial Electronic Monitoring in San Francisco
In the year following Humphrey, a judicial decision mandating that judges consider both defendants' ability to pay cash bail and non-…
We develop new quasi-experimental tools to measure disparate impact, regardless of its source, in the context of bail decisions. We show…
Past studies have found that racial and ethnic minorities are more likely than White drivers to be pulled over by the police for alleged…