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29 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Isn’t the CEA usually academics? I’m disappointed.
Rouse is a great pick, obviously. But presumably Biden could’ve had his pick of heavyweight economists from the academy to round out the group.
I should stop reading the news. Nothing good comes of it.
I have better things to do than fight w people about politics on Twitter so am going to mute this thread. I hope for the sake of the country that I am wrong and that this CEA does a great job.

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9 Oct
Let's do this!

Women on the econ job market in AY 2020-21, in no particular order:

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25 Aug
This paper is officially forthcoming at AEJ: Applied!

“The effects of DNA databases on the deterrence and detection of offenders,” joint work with @annesofieanker & @r_landersoe.

aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Here is a thread describing what we do and what we find: Image
@annesofieanker @r_landersoe Offender DNA databases are used around the world to catalog DNA profiles of people who have been convicted or arrested for particular crimes. (The details of who is included depend on state or national law.)
The goal is to identify repeat offenders if they commit a new crime — the DNA profiles are compared w DNA profiles from crime scenes. Any matches are sent to local police. This helps identify suspects in cases where the perpetrator wasn’t already on law enforcement’s radar.
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6 Jun
This study considers the effect of transferring authority to appoint, promote, and dismiss police officers from a politically-elected mayor to a semi-independent civil service commission. It finds benefits. Image
This study considers anti-profiling policies implemented in the wake of a racial profiling scandal in NJ. It finds mixed effects.

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This study considers a rule change that made it more difficult for TX troopers to misreport drivers' race in traffic stops -- thus making it easier to identify biased cops. It found benefits.

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2 Jun
Econ friends: Did you know that @nberpubs has refused to make its current crime working group into a full program? I assure you there’s lots of great econ of crime research you never see bc the working group can’t admit scholars to NBER. This might be a good time to change that.
The crime working group is also one of the more diverse groups at NBER, so this decision has a disparate impact on underrepresented groups.
The constraint is apparently funding (& some internal politics). 🤷🏼‍♀️ If anyone out there wants to support top-notch scholarship on how to improve CJ policy, sponsoring a full NBER econ of crime program would be a great investment.
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31 May
As a researcher, I now take as given that unnecessary escalation of incidents (e.g. to arrests/violence), as well as racial bias, are both (related) problems in policing. The question is how to *solve* these problems. 1/n
I have ideas. You have ideas. We all have ideas. 2/n
But we need to recognize that even our best ideas about how to solve the problems in policing are untested hypotheses. We need to start testing! (And we need to be ready to be proven wrong. Really good ideas often don’t work in practice.) 3/n
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27 Feb
Some thoughts on the ‘whisper network’ in economics, and how it has recently failed one corner of our discipline:
There is a senior male researcher in my field who ‘everyone knows’ not to work with. He has a reputation for being a compulsive liar and making up data. There are also allegations of sexual harassment.
These stories aren’t secrets, but they’re not exactly public either. We’d counted on a classic ‘whisper network’ among both women and men in the field to protect each other.
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