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
The Relationship between Officer Misconduct and Conviction‐less Arrests
(with Nayoung Rim and Roman G. Rivera)Draft, May 2026Revise & Resubmit at Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesMarket Response to Racial Uprisings
(with Roman G. Rivera, and Alexander Whitefield) Draft, April 2026Conditionally Accepted at Journal of Political EconomyUnderstanding Demand for Police Alternatives
(with Meghna Baskar, Tony Cheng, Rei Mariman, and Maxime Menuet)Draft, December 2025J-PAL Evaluation SummaryReject & Resubmit at Journal of Political EconomyWhat is the Best Response? Examining the Impact of Police and Their Alternatives
(with Patton Chen, Tony Cheng, Martha Eies, and Justin Holz)Draft, October 2025Revise & Resubmit at American Economic ReviewMispricing 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)Draft, November 2020Runner-up Best Student Paper at the Urban Economics Association 2018
published and accepted papers
Draft, April 2026Annual Review of Criminology, Acceptedpublished and accepted papers
The Effect of Police Oversight on Crime and Allegations of Misconduct: Evidence from Chicago
(with Roman G. Rivera)Draft, January 2026The Review of Economics Statistics, January 2026.Officer-Involved: The Media Language of Police Killings
(with Jonathan Moreno-Medina, Aurelie Ouss, and Patrick Bayer)Draft, May 2025The Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2025.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, September 2024American Journal of Political Science, October 2025.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, July 2024.The Black-White Recognition Gap in Award Nominations
(with Nayoung Rim, Roman G. Rivera, and Andrea Kiss)Draft, August 2022Journal of Labor Economics, January 2024.Peer Effects in Police Use of Force
(with Justin Holz and Roman G. Rivera) Draft, May 2023AEJ: Policy, 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, February 2021.Supplementary 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, July 2017. Online Appendix and Estimation Programsother writings
other writings
Prévenir Plutôt que Guérir : Peut-on Empêcher le Passage à l'Acte ?
(with Aurelie Ouss)Mermoz, La Revue du Cercle des Économistes, Numéro 10, Printemps 2026, pp. 50-52The 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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