Working Papers

• “Police Protections, Productivity, and Crime: Evidence from Law Enforcement Officers Bill of Rights" w/ Rob Gillezeau, Matthew Harvey, & Abdul Rad.
  

Selected Publications

• "State Recreational Cannabis Laws and Racial Disparities in the Criminal Legal System" w/ Angelica Meinhofer and Adrian Rubli. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Conditional Acceptance. 
• ​“Collective Bargaining Rights, Policing, and Civilian Deaths” w/ Rob Gillezeau. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Conditional Acceptance.
• “The Impact of Affirmative Action Litigation on Police Killings of Civilians” w/ Robynn Cox & Alberto Ortega.  American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Conditional Acceptance. 
• "Black Lives: The High Cost of Segregation" w/ Robyn Cox, Alberto Ortega,  and Kenneth Whaley.  American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Forthcoming.
• “Family Structure and Welfare Participation in the 1960s: the Role of Legal Services” w/ Andrew Goodman-Bacon. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.  17 (1): 369-401.
• “Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights & Police Violence” w/ Donna Feir, Rob Gillezeau, Matthew Harvey, & Abdul Rad. 2022. American Economic Association Paper and Proceedings. 112: 174-177.
• “Financing the War on Drugs: The Impact of Law Enforcement Grants on Racial Disparities in Drug Arrests” w/ Robynn Cox. 2021. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 40(1), 191-224.
• “The Language of the Unheard: Legal Services and the 1960s Race Riots” 2021. Review of Black Political Economy. 48(3):255-285.
• “Civil Rights Enforcement and the Racial Wage Gap” w/ Jose Joaquin Lopez. 2021. American Economic Association Paper and Proceedings. 111: 196-200.
• “Don’t Shoot! The Impact of Historical African American Protest on Police Killings of Civilians” w/ Rob Gillezeau. 2021. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 37(1), 1-34.
• “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. 23(3), 285-313.
• “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.