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View article: Can speed cameras make streets safer? Quasi-experimental evidence from New York City
Can speed cameras make streets safer? Quasi-experimental evidence from New York City Open
Each year, approximately 40,000 people die in vehicle collisions in the United States, generating $340 billion in economic costs. To make roads safer without expanding police contact, many cities have turned to automated traffic enforcemen…
View article: Robust inference for geographic regression discontinuity designs: assessing the impact of police precincts
Robust inference for geographic regression discontinuity designs: assessing the impact of police precincts Open
We study variation in policing outcomes attributable to differential policing practices in New York City (NYC) using geographic regression discontinuity designs (GeoRDDs). By focusing on small geographic windows near police precinct bounda…
View article: Local Government Spending: Policing Versus Social Services
Local Government Spending: Policing Versus Social Services Open
US cities have recently increased the share of their budgets devoted to policing and decreased the share devoted to social services. However, a growing body of research demonstrates that social services can durably reduce crime, raising th…
View article: Causal inference and racial bias in policing: New estimands and the importance of mobility data
Causal inference and racial bias in policing: New estimands and the importance of mobility data Open
Studying racial bias in policing is a critically important problem, but one that comes with a number of inherent difficulties due to the nature of the available data. In this manuscript we tackle multiple key issues in the causal analysis …
View article: Neck‐restraint bans, law enforcement officer unions, and police killings
Neck‐restraint bans, law enforcement officer unions, and police killings Open
Research Summary Following high‐profile police killings, many U.S. cities banned officers from using chokeholds and other neck restraints. The evidence for such bans, however, is limited. To test whether use‐of‐force policies prohibiting n…
View article: Home Price Change and Ethno-racial Residential Segregation: Temporal Relationships at the Metro Level
Home Price Change and Ethno-racial Residential Segregation: Temporal Relationships at the Metro Level Open
Although rates of residential racial segregation and home prices are undoubtedly related, the temporal nature of the relationship has rarely been studied. Using fixed effects models in a cross-lagged framework, we examine how prior changes…
View article: Principal stratification with continuous treatments and continuous post-treatment variables
Principal stratification with continuous treatments and continuous post-treatment variables Open
Principal stratification (PS) is a commonly used approach for understanding the mechanisms through which a treatment affects an outcome. The goal of this work is to extend the PS framework to studies with continuous treatments, which intro…
View article: Policing, Punishment, and Place: Spatial-Contextual Analyses of the Criminal Legal System
Policing, Punishment, and Place: Spatial-Contextual Analyses of the Criminal Legal System Open
Policing and punishment are unevenly distributed across geographic space. Research analyzing place-based variation in the criminal legal system is increasing, asking how community conditions contribute to variation in criminal justice outc…
View article: Police Killings and Municipal Reliance on Fine-and-Fee Revenue
Police Killings and Municipal Reliance on Fine-and-Fee Revenue Open
High-profile police killings in the United States have drawn attention to how municipalities generate revenue through citations and arrests. This article investigates whether killings by police are more frequent in places that rely on fine…
View article: Proximity and Police Departments: Spatial Dynamics of the Misdemeanor Arrest Decline
Proximity and Police Departments: Spatial Dynamics of the Misdemeanor Arrest Decline Open
What makes police departments change their practices? Do they transform in isolation, or do they mimic their neighbors? Combining insights from organizational theory and urban sociology, the authors argue that organizational change diffuse…
View article: Robust inference for geographic regression discontinuity designs: assessing the impact of police precincts
Robust inference for geographic regression discontinuity designs: assessing the impact of police precincts Open
We study variation in policing outcomes attributable to differential policing practices in New York City (NYC) using geographic regression discontinuity designs (GeoRDDs). By focusing on small geographic windows near police precinct bounda…
View article: Estimating heterogeneous causal effects in time series settings with staggered adoption: An application to neighborhood policing
Estimating heterogeneous causal effects in time series settings with staggered adoption: An application to neighborhood policing Open
Communities often self select into implementing a regulatory policy, and adopt the policy at different time points. Researchers are interested in (1) evaluating the impact of the policy, and (2) understanding what types of communities are …
View article: Heterogeneous causal effects of neighborhood policing in New York City with staggered adoption of the policy
Heterogeneous causal effects of neighborhood policing in New York City with staggered adoption of the policy Open
In New York City, neighborhood policing was adopted at the police precinct level over the years 2015-2018, and it is of interest to both (1) evaluate the impact of the policy, and (2) understand what types of communities are most impacted …
View article: Policing Gentrification: Stops and Low–Level Arrests during Demographic Change and Real Estate Reinvestment
Policing Gentrification: Stops and Low–Level Arrests during Demographic Change and Real Estate Reinvestment Open
Does low–level policing increase during gentrification? If so, are police responding to increased crime, increased demand by new residents, or are they attempting to “clean up” neighborhoods marked for economic redevelopment? To address th…
View article: Uneven Policing: Low-Level Arrests During Gentrification, Fiscal Crisis, and Suburbanization
Uneven Policing: Low-Level Arrests During Gentrification, Fiscal Crisis, and Suburbanization Open
In this dissertation, I analyze trends in low-level policing between 1990 and 2015. I explore how three contextual changes may have shaped policing during this time: gentrification, fiscal crisis, and the suburbanization of poverty and of …
View article: Home moves and child wellbeing in the first five years of life in the United States
Home moves and child wellbeing in the first five years of life in the United States Open
By the time they are five years old, nearly 70% of children in the United States have moved home, with a substantial minority moving more than once. These early years are important for children's later learning and development. Yet, there …