Research

Peer-Reviewed Articles


Measuring How Much Judges Matter for Case Outcomes (with Ryan Copus). Forthcoming. Journal of Law and Courts. [ungated preprint]

Social Segregation, Inter-Group Contact and Discriminatory Policing (with Andrew T. Little). Forthcoming. Political Science Research and Methods. [ungated preprint]

Trading Diversity? Judicial Diversity and Case Outcomes in Federal Courts (with Ryan Copus and Paige Pellaton). Forthcoming. American Political Science Review. [ungated preprint]

The Public Meeting Paradox: How NIMBY-Dominated Public Meetings Can Enable New Housing (with Allison K. Cuttner and B. Pablo Montagnes). 2024. Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy  5(1), pp. 1-28. [ungated preprint]

A Behavioural Theory of Discrimination in Policing (with Andrew T. Little). 2023. Economic Journal  133(655), pp. 2828-2843. [ungated preprint]

Going Into Government: How Hiring from Special Interests Reduces Their Influence (with Janna King Rezaee and Jonathan Colner). 2023. American Journal of Political Science  67(2), pp. 485-498. [ungated preprint]

Political Appointments and Outcomes in Federal District Courts (with Ryan Copus). 2022. Journal of Politics  84(2), pp. 908-922. [ungated preprint]

Kompromat Can Align Incentives But Ruin Reputations (with Andrew T. Little). 2022. American Journal of Political Science  66(4), pp. 871-884. [ungated preprint]

Biased Judgments without Biased Judges: How Legal Institutions Cause Errors. 2021. Journal of Politics  83(2), pp. 753-766. [ungated preprint]

Getting Their Way: Bias and Deference to Trial Courts. 2019. American Journal of Political Science  63(3), pp. 706-718. [ungated preprint]

Other Publications


Big Data, Machine Learning, and the Credibility Revolution in Empirical Legal Studies (with Ryan Copus and Hannah Laqueur). 2019. In Law as Data: Computation and the Future of Legal Analysis. Edited by Michael A. Livermore and Daniel N. Rockmore. Santa Fe, NM: SFI Press. [ungated preprint]

Selected Projects in Process


Measuring Panel Effects in Circuit Courts with Machine Learning

How Third Party Lawsuits Shape Judicial Review of Government Permit Approvals

Recovering Random Assignment of Cases to Panels in the Federal Courts of Appeals

Informed Voting in the Presence of Prejudiced Voters

Political Accountability and Stereotyping in Prosecutions

Lurking Heterogeneity and Theoretical Inference in Political Science (with and Copus)

The Persistence of Mafias