Published and Accepted Papers

Release, Detain, or Surveil? The Effect of Electronic Monitoring on Defendant Outcomes
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2026
Paper
The Effect of Police Oversight on Crime and Allegations of Misconduct: Evidence from Chicago
with Bocar Ba
The Review of Economics and Statistics, January 2026
Paper
Do Peers Matter in the Police Academy?
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2025
Paper
Political Diversity in U.S. Police Agencies
with Bocar Ba, Haosen Ge, Jacob Kaplan, Dean Knox, Mayya Komisarchik, Gregory Lanzalotto, Rei Mariman, Jonathan Mummolo, and Michelle Torres
American Journal of Political Science, February 2025
Paper
The Black-White Recognition Gap in Award Nominations
with Nayoung Rim, Andrea Kiss, and Bocar Ba
Journal of Labor Economics, January 2024
Paper
Peer Effects in Police Use of Force
with Justin Holz and Bocar Ba
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2023
Paper
The Role of Officer Race and Gender in Police-Civilian Interactions in Chicago
with Bocar Ba, Dean Knox, and Jonathan Mummolo
Science, February 2021
Paper
Disparities in Police Award Nominations: Evidence from Chicago
with Nayoung Rim and Bocar Ba
AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020
Paper

Working Papers

Market Response to Racial Uprisings
with Bocar Ba and Alexander Whitefield
Conditionally Accepted at Journal of Political Economy
Paper
What Makes a Good Cop? Measuring Officer Quality and the Trade-Off Between Policing and Public Safety
Paper
The Price of Corrupt Justice: Evidence from Progressive Era Chicago
(Previously titled: Performance Pay and Multitasking Police)
Paper
Mispricing Narratives after Social Unrest
with Bocar Ba, Abdoulaye Ndiaye, and Alexander Whitefield
NBER Working Paper No. 31857
Paper
The Relationship between Officer Misconduct and Conviction-less Arrests
with Bocar Ba and Nayoung Rim
Revise & Resubmit at Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Positive Incentives: The Income Effect and The Optimal Regulation of Crime
with W. Bentley MacLeod
NBER Working Paper No. 32805
Paper
Police Officer Assignment and Neighborhood Crime
with Bocar Ba, Patrick Bayer, Nayoung Rim, and Modibo Sidibe
NBER Working Paper No. 29243
Paper