bocar a. ba

assistant professor of economics

 duke economics

email: bocar.ba@duke.edu

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working papers

Understanding Demand for Police Alternatives

(with Meghna Baskar, Tony Cheng, and Rei Mariman)Draft, November 2024

Mispricing Narratives After Social Unrest

(with Abdoulaye Ndiaye, Roman G. Rivera, and Alexander WhitefieldDraft, 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 WhitefieldDraft, April 2024Reject & Resubmit  at Journal of Political Economy

Going the Extra Mile: the Cost of Complaint Filing, Accountability, and Law Enforcement Outcomes in Chicago 

Draft, November 2020Runner-up Best Student Paper at the Urban Economics Association 2018

published and accepted papers

Officer-Involved: The Media Language of Police Killings 

(with Jonathan Moreno-Medina, Aurelie Ouss, and Patrick Bayer)Draft, February 2024Accepted  at The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Political 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, March 2024Accepted at American Journal of Political Science

Hot 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 2023Accepted at The Review of Economics Statistics

The 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. RiveraDraft, May  2023AEJ: Policy, 15(2): 256-91, May 2023.Supplementary Materials 

The 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 Interview

Estimating (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 Programs

other writings

The Economics of Policing and Public Safety

(with Emily Owens)Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 35, Number 4, pp. 3-28, Fall 2021

Disparities in Police Award Nominations: Evidence from Chicago

(with Nayoung Rim and Roman G. Rivera)American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 110, pp. 447-451, May 2020

Police Officer Assignment and Neighborhood Crime 

(with Pat Bayer, Nayoung Rim, Roman G. Rivera, and Modibo SidibeDraft, September 2021

The 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 details