Roman Gabriel Rivera

Published and Accepted Papers

Release, Detain, or Surveil? The Effect of Electronic Monitoring on Defendant Outcomes

Forthcoming, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

The Effect of Police Oversight on Crime and Allegations of Misconduct: Evidence from Chicago

with Bocar BaThe Review of Economics and Statistics, January 2026

Do Peers Matter in the Police Academy?

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2025

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 TorresAmerican Journal of Political Science, February 2025

The Black-White Recognition Gap in Award Nominations

with Nayoung Rim, Andrea Kiss, and Bocar BaJournal of Labor Economics, January 2024

Peer Effects in Police Use of Force

with Justin Holz and Bocar BaAmerican Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2023

The Role of Officer Race and Gender in Police-Civilian Interactions in Chicago

with Bocar Ba, Dean Knox, and Jonathan MummoloScience, February 2021

Disparities in Police Award Nominations: Evidence from Chicago

with Nayoung Rim and Bocar BaAEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020

Working Papers

Market Response to Racial Uprisings (with Bocar Ba and Alexander Whitefield)

[Reject and Resubmit at Journal of Political Economy]

Are "Bad" Cops Better Police? The Tradeoff Between Officer Aggression and Public Safety

[Draft available upon request]

Performance Pay and Multitasking Police

[Draft available upon request]

Mispricing Narratives after Social Unrest (with Bocar Ba, Abdoulaye Ndiaye, and Alexander Whitefield)

[NBER Working Paper No. 31857]

Positive Incentives: The Income Effect and The Optimal Regulation of Crime (with W. Bentley MacLeod)

[NBER Working Paper No. 32805]

Police Officer Assignment and Neighborhood Crime (with Bocar Ba, Patrick Bayer, Nayoung Rim, and Modibo Sidibe)

[NBER Working Paper No. 29243]