Research

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Publications

Articles

A Behavioural Theory of Discrimination in Policing         

With Andrew T. Little. 2023. Economic Journal. Volume 133, Number 655, pp. 2828–2843.

Going Into Government: How Hiring from Special Interests Reduces Their Influence         

With Janna King Rezaee and Jonathan Colner. 2023. American Journal of Political Science. Volume 67, Number 2, pp. 485-498.

Kompromat Can Align Incentives But Ruin Reputations         

With Andrew T. Little. 2022. American Journal of Political Science. Volume 66, Number 4, pp. 871-884.

Political Appointments and Outcomes in Federal District Courts         

With Ryan Copus. 2022. Journal of Politics. Volume 84, Number 2, pp. 908-922.

Biased Judgments without Biased Judges: How Legal Institutions Cause Errors         

2021. Journal of Politics. Volume 83, Number 2, pp. 753-766.

Getting Their Way: Bias and Deference to Trial Courts         

2019. American Journal of Political Science. Volume 63, Number 3, pp. 706-718.

Books and Book Chapters

Big Data, Machine Learning, and the Credibility Revolution in Empirical Legal Studies      

2019. With Ryan Copus and Hannah Laqueur. In Law as Data: Computation and the Future of Legal Analysis. Edited by Michael A. Livermore and Daniel N. Rockmore. Santa Fe, NM: SFI Press.

Accepted Manuscripts

Trading Diversity? Judicial Diversity and Case Outcomes in Federal Courts      

Accepted at American Political Science Review.
Joint with Ryan Copus and Paige Pellaton.

Working Papers

Measuring How Much Judges Matter for Case Outcomes      

Joint with Ryan Copus.
Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Law and Courts.

The Public Meeting Paradox: How NIMBY-Dominated Public Meetings Can Enable New Housing

Joint with Allison K. Cuttner and B. Pablo Montagnes.

Social Segregation, Inter-Group Contact and Discriminatory Policing      

Joint with Andrew T. Little.

The Persistence of Mafias

Joint with Omar García-Ponce.

Advice & Consent: Semi-Automated Text Analysis of Judicial Confirmation Hearings

Joint with James Hicks.

One Campaign Website, Multiple Constituencies

Joint with Michael Dougal and Tzu-Ping Liu.