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Completed papers
- Decarceration And COVID-19 in the United States: An analysis finding that anti-contagion policies, including jail decarceration to minimize carceral outbreaks and their spillover to surrounding communities, appear to be necessary for epidemic control, public health, and mitigation of racial health disparities.Economics Training for Judges and Bias in the United States: An analysis of the impact of the Manne economics training program for judges on their sentencing behavior across racial and gender groups.
- Judicial Gender Bias in the United States: An analysis of whether judges who use more gender-stereotyped language vote more conservatively in gender-related cases, are more likely to reverse lower-court decisions if the lower-court judge is a woman than a man, are less likely to assign opinions to female judges, and cite fewer female-authored opinions.
- Judicial Voting Patterns in the United States: A measure of institutional coherence through a maximum entropy model estimated using various aspects of the institution beginning with judge voting patterns from the circuit courts in the United States.
- Language Analysis Of Legal Rulings in the United States: An application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to legal language that yields insights into judicial reasoning and the relations between judges.
- Measuring Judicial Integrity: A step towards a principled, statistical framework for characterizing institutions through measurable individual behavior.
Ongoing projects
- Political Conflict in the Courtroom in the United States: An analysis of the impact of prosecutors and judges with clashing political ideologies on judicial sentences.
- Predicting Appeals in the United States: A study using text features to predict appeals to the Supreme Court.
- QSVR: A New Survey Method For Better Eliciting Citizen Preferences: A study of the Quadratic Voting for Survey Research (QVSR) survey method for gathering data on citizen preferences, predicting policy decisions, and matching true preferences.
- The Effect Of Productivity Quotas On Judicial Decisions: An analysis of the impact of productivity quotas for judges on the quality of judicial decisions and firm outcomes in Croatia.
- Asylum Decisions in the United States: An study that seeks to predict the final outcome of asylum cases using only information about the identity of the judge handling the case and the applicant’s nationality.
- Bias In Prosecutors in the United States: A study of whether there is any racial bias involved in the behavior (screening/sentencing) of screening and trial prosecutors.
- COVID-19 and Incarceration in the United States: A study of whether detention for alleged offenses that can be safely managed without incarceration is harming public safety and health.