Publications

• “Civil Rights Enforcement and the Racial Wage Gap." w/ Joaquin Lopez. Forthcoming.  AEA Papers and Proceedings.
• “Financing the War on Drugs: The Impact of Law Enforcement Grants on Racial Disparities in Drug Arrests” w/ Robynn Cox. Forthcoming. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 
• “The Language of the Unheard: Legal Services and the 1960s Race Riots." 2020.  Review of Black Political Economy.
• “Don’t Shoot! The Impact of Historical African American Protest on Police Killings of Civilians” w/ Rob Gillezeau. 2019. Journal of Quantitative Criminology.
• “A Ferguson Effect, the Drug Epidemic, Both, or Neither? Explaining the 2015 and 2016 U.S. Homicide Rises by Race and Ethnicity” w/ S. Gaston & R. Gillezeau. 2019. Homicide Studies.
• “The Effects of the Neighborhood Legal Services Program on Riots and Wealth of African Americans” w/ Rob Gillezeau. 2018. RSF: Journal of Social Sciences. 4(6), 144-157.
• “Racial Differences in Police Use of Force: Evidence from 1960s Civil Disturbances.” w/ Rob Gillezeau. 2018. American Economic Association Paper and Proceedings. 108: 217-21.
• “An Evaluation of the Federal Legal Services Program: Evidence from Crime Rates and Property Values.” 2016. Journal of Urban Economics 92: 76-90.

Working Papers

• "Family Structure and Welfare Participation in the 1960s: The Role of Legal Services" w/ Andrew Goodman-Bacon 
• “The Impact of Access to Collective Bargaining Rights on Policing and Civilian Deaths” w/ Donna Feir & Rob Gillezeau
• “The Impact of Affirmative Action Litigation on Police Killings of Civilians” w/ Robynn Cox & Alberto Ortega
• The War on Poverty 55 Years Later: A Review of Long-Run Effects" w/ Martha Bailey, Nic Duquette, & Andrew Goodman-Bacon