bocar a. ba
assistant professor of economics
email: bocar.ba@duke.edu
I am on leave at Princeton CSDP for the 2025-2026 academic year.
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working papers
working papers
Understanding Demand for Police Alternatives
(with Meghna Baskar, Tony Cheng, Rei Mariman, and Maxime Menuet)Draft, July 2025J-PAL Evaluation SummaryThe Relationship between Officer Misconduct and Conviction‐less Arrests
(with Nayoung Rim and Roman G. Rivera)Draft, December 2024Mispricing Narratives After Social Unrest
(with Abdoulaye Ndiaye, Roman G. Rivera, and Alexander Whitefield) Draft, July 2024Replaces "Forecasting the Impact of Racial Uprisings, Market versus Stakeholders’ Expectations" (Previous Draft)Market Response to Racial Uprisings
(with Roman G. Rivera, and Alexander Whitefield) Draft, April 2024Reject & Resubmit at Journal of Political EconomyDraft, November 2020Runner-up Best Student Paper at the Urban Economics Association 2018published and accepted papers
published and accepted papers
Officer-Involved: The Media Language of Police Killings
(with Jonathan Moreno-Medina, Aurelie Ouss, and Patrick Bayer)Draft, May 2025The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsPolitical Diversity in U.S. Police Agencies
(with Haosen Ge, Jacob Kaplan, Dean Knox, Mayya Komisarchik, Gregory Lanzalotto, Rachel Mariman, Jonathan Mummolo, Roman Rivera, and Michelle Torres)Draft, September 2024American Journal of Political ScienceHot Temperatures, Aggression, and Death at the Hands of the Police: Evidence from the U.S.
(with Sébastien Annan-Phan)Draft, August 2023Journal of Urban Economics, 142 : 103592, July 2024.The Effect of Police Oversight on Crime and Allegations of Misconduct: Evidence from Chicago
(with Roman G. Rivera)Draft, July 2023Forthcoming at The Review of Economics StatisticsThe Black-White Recognition Gap in Award Nominations
(with Nayoung Rim, Roman G. Rivera, and Andrea Kiss)Draft, August 2022Journal of Labor Economics, 42(1), January 2024.Peer Effects in Police Use of Force
(with Justin Holz and Roman G. Rivera) Draft, May 2023AEJ: Policy, 15(2): 256-91, May 2023.Supplementary MaterialsThe Role of Officer Race and Gender in Police-Civilian Interactions in Chicago
(with Dean Knox, Jonathan Mummolo, and Roman G. Rivera)Science, Vol. 371, Issue 6530, pp. 696-702, February 2021Supplementary Materials , Cover , Science Magazine InterviewEstimating (Easily Interpreted) Dynamic Training Effects from Experimental Data
(with John C. Ham, Robert J. LaLonde, and Xianghong Li)Journal of Labor Economics, 35(S1), S149-S200, July 2017 Online Appendix and Estimation Programsother writings
other writings
The Economics of Policing and Public Safety
(with Emily Owens)Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 35, Number 4, pp. 3-28, Fall 2021Disparities in Police Award Nominations: Evidence from Chicago
(with Nayoung Rim and Roman G. Rivera)American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 110, pp. 447-451, May 2020Police Officer Assignment and Neighborhood Crime
(with Pat Bayer, Nayoung Rim, Roman G. Rivera, and Modibo Sidibe) Draft, September 2021The Introduction of Tasers and Police Use of Firearms: Evidence from the Chicago Police Department
(with Jeffrey Grogger) American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 109, pp. 157-160, May 2019*Please do not cite this paper-Contact me for more detailsGoogle Sites
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