Publications
The Long-Term Impact of Debt Relief for Indigent Defendants in a Misdemeanor Court Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121.51 (2024) e2415066121. (with Lindsay Bing, Helen Ho, Devah Pager, and Bruce Western)
Toplash: Progressive Prosecutors Under Attack from Above American Criminal Law Review 61 (2024): 1157-1203.
Media: Austin American-Statesman, Austin American-Statesman, WBEZ Chicago, AP
Political Underrepresentation Among Public Benefits Recipients: Evidence from Linked Administrative Data Urban Affairs Review 60.1 (2023):420-43 (with Seth Chizek, Kelley Fong, and Ariel White)
Inequality in Police Service Provision: Evidence from Residential Burglary Investigations The Journal of Law and Economics 65.3 (2022): 487-513
Criminalizing Poverty: The Consequences of Court Fees in a Randomized Experiment American Sociological Review 87.3 (2022): 529-553 (with Devah Pager, Helen Ho, and Bruce Western)
Media: Reuters
Sensitive Questions, Spillover Effects, and Asking Questions about Citizenship on the U.S. Census Journal of Politics 84.3 (2022): 1869-1873 (with Matthew Baum, Bryce Dietrich, and Maya Sen)
Media: Washington Post, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Reuters, USA Today, ABC News, Slate, NPR Phoenix
Senior Citizens as a Pro-Police Interest Group Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy 2.2 (2021): 303-328
Media: The New York Times
Exploitative Revenues, Law Enforcement, and the Quality of Government Service. Urban Affairs Review 56.1 (2020): 5-31. (with Michael Sances and Hye Young You)
Media: The New York Times, Washington Post
The Politics of Decarceration. Yale Law Journal 129(2): 446-486. (Review of Prisoners of Politics by Rachel Barkow (Harvard University Press 2019)).
Cities as Lobbyists. American Journal of Political Science. 61.4 (2017): 864-876. (with Hye Young You)
Working papers
Participatory Implications of Child Welfare System Contact (with Ariel White, Marie-Pascale Grimon, and Kelley Fong) (revise & resubmit)
Degrees of Randomness in Rerandomization Procedures (with Connor Jerzak, Aniket Kamat, and Warren Zhu) (submitted)
Crime and Far-Right Voting: Evidence from Denmark (with Katarina Jensen and Jens Olav Dahlgaard) (submitted)
Whom to Punish? A Conjoint Analysis of Attitudes Towards Criminals (with Andrew Keefe and Adaner Usmani) (submitted)
Court Fees and Legal Legitimacy (with Lindsay Bing, Helen Ho, Devah Pager, and Bruce Western)