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Working Papers

No Money Bail, No Problems? Trade-offs in a Pretrial Automatic Release Program


Related Materials: Slides (July 2022), 10-minute presentation (Sep 2022), Probable Causation Interview (Dec 2022)

Media Coverage: Phenomenal World


The Hidden Effects of Algorithmic Recommendations


Updated July 2023, subsumes and replaces "If You Give a Judge a Risk Score" (2019)

Related Materials: Slides (May 2023), 10-minute presentation (Sep 2022)

Media Coverage: WIRED, Axios, Probable Causation


After The Burning: The Economic Effects of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

(with Jeremy Cook, James Feigenbaum, Laura-Thorne Kincaide, Jason Long, and Nathan Nunn)


Related Materials: NBER Digest Article (Sep 2021)

Media Coverage: The New York Times, CNN, TIME Magazine, CNBC, Black Enterprise, The Root, Business Insider

Resting Papers

Uncorking Expert Reviews with Social Media: A Case Study Served with Wine 

(with Peter Pedroni and Stephen Sheppard)