Anna Harvey talks about how court-ordered affirmative action in police departments affected racial disparities in crime victimization.
“Reducing Racial Disparities in Crime Victimization: Evidence from Employment Discrimination Litigation” by Anna Harvey and Taylor Mattia.
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OTHER RESEARCH WE DISCUSS IN THIS EPISODE:"Are U.S. Cities Underpoliced? Theory and Evidence" by Aaron Chalfin and Justin McCrary.
"COPS and crime" by William N. Evans and Emily G. Owens.
"Using Terror Alert Levels to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime" by Jonathan Klick and Alexander Tabarrok.
"The Effect of Police Response Time on Crime Clearance Rates" by Jordi Blanes i Vidal and Tom Kirchmaier.
"The Relationship Between Crime Reporting and Police: Implications for the Use of Uniform
Crime Reports" by Steven Levitt.
"The Effect of Court-Ordered Hiring Quotas on the Composition and Quality of Police" by Justin McCrary.
"Does Temporary Affirmative Action Produce Persistent Effects? A Study of Black and Female Employment in Law Enforcement" by Amalia R. Miller and Carmit Segal.
"Do Female Officers Improve Law Enforcement Quality? Effects on Crime Reporting and Domestic Violence" by Amalia R. Miller and Carmit Segal.
"Police Force Size and Civilian Race" by Aaron Chalfin, Benjamin Hansen, Emily K. Weisburst, and Morgan C. Williams, Jr.
Episode 96: Andreas Kotsadam on jobs and intimate partner violence
Episode 95: Marcella Alsan on fear and the social safety net
Episode 94: Jesse Bruhn on the effects of gangs in Chicago
Episode 93: Justin Holz on peer effects in police use of force
Episode 92: Laura Khoury on the mental health effects of prison in Norway
Bonus episode: Joanna Schwartz on accountability for police misconduct
Episode 91: Allison Harris on registering returning citizens to vote
Episode 90: Matthew Ross on police field training
Episode 89: Graeme Blair on community policing in the Global South
Episode 88: Sara Heller and Max Kapustin on reducing gun violence
Episode 87: Emily Nix on violence against women at work
Episode 7: Jeff Weaver on the effects of parental and sibling incarceration (REBROADCAST)
Episode 3: Analisa Packham on syringe exchange programs (REBROADCAST)
Episode 86: Elizabeth Luh on financial penalties
Episode 85: Sofia Amaral on reducing street harassment in India
Episode 84: Alex Albright on bail reform
Episode 83: Kevin Wilson on DC’s 911 nurse triage line
Episode 82: Kirabo Jackson on the multiple dimensions of school quality
Episode 81: Anita Mukherjee on how heat affects violence in prisons
Episode 80: Thomas Dee on sending health workers to 911 calls
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