The Relationship between Officer Misconduct and Convictionless Arrests (with Bocar Ba and Roman Rivera)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Accepted
*This working paper has been superseded and split into two papers: "The Relationship between Officer Misconduct and Convictionless Arrests" and "The Effect of Police Oversight on Convictionless Arrests"
Race and Ethnicity and Diagnostic Testing for Common Conditions in the Acute Care Setting (with Michael Ellenbogen, P. Logan Weygandt, David Newman-Toker, Andrew Anderson, and Daniel Brotman)
JAMA Network Open, 2024, 7:8
The Black-White Recognition Gap in Award Nominations (with Roman Rivera, Andrea Kiss, and Bocar Ba)
Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42:1, pp 1-23 [ungated version] [appendix]
Characterizing the Relationship between Hospital Google Star Ratings, Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) Scores, and Quality (with Michael Ellenbogen, Paul Ellenbogen, and Daniel Brotman)
Journal of Patient Experience, 2022, 9
The Effect of Title IX on Gender Disparity in Graduate Education
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2021, 40:2, pp 521-552 [ungated version] [appendix]
The Disparate Impact of Up-or-Out Promotion Policy on Fertility Timing (with Kyung H. Park)
American Law and Economics Review, 2020, 22:1, pp 127–172 [ungated version] [appendix]
Press: HuffPost
Disparities in Police Award Nominations: Evidence from Chicago (with Roman Rivera and Bocar Ba)
AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2020, 110, pp 447–451
Police Officer Assignment and Neighborhood Crime (with Bocar Ba, Patrick Bayer, Roman Rivera, and Modibo Sidibe)
NBER Working Paper 29243
We develop an empirical model of the mechanism used to assign police officers to Chicago districts and examine the efficiency and equity of alternative allocations. We document that the current bidding process, which grants priority based on seniority, results in the assignment of more experienced officers to less violent and high-income neighborhoods. Our empirical model combines estimates of heterogeneous officer preferences underlying the bidding process with causal estimates of the effects of officer experience on neighborhood crime. Equalizing officer seniority across districts would reduce violent crime rate by 4.6 percent and significantly decrease inequality in crime, discretionary arrests, and officer use of force across neighborhoods. Moreover, this assignment can be achieved in a revenue-neutral way while resulting in small welfare gains for police officers, implying that it is more equitable and efficient.
Racial Disparities in Diagnostic Testing (with Michael Ellenbogen)
The Effect of Police Oversight on Convictionless Arrests (with Bocar Ba and Roman Rivera)
Racial Frictions in Neighborhoods and Officer Performance (with Bocar Ba and Roman Rivera)