Working Papers

Do Cops Know Who to Stop? Assessing Optimizing Models of Police Behavior with a Natural Experiment (with P. Goonetilleke and Hanming Fang)

Patent Value and Citations: Creative Destruction or Strategic Disruption? (with Ufuk Akcigit and Jillian Grennan)

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Publications

COVID and Crime: An Early Empirical Look [Journal of Public Economics]

Poisoning the Next Apple? The America Invents Act And Individual Inventors [Stanford Law Review]

Do Judges Vary in Their Treatment of Race? [Journal of Legal Studies]

Did Trips Spur Innovation? An Analysis of Patent Duration and Incentives to Innovate [U. of Pennsylvania Law Review]

The Luck of the Draw: Using Random Case Assignment to Investigate Attorney Ability [The U. of Chicago Law Review]

Is Pleading Really a Bargain? [Journal of Empirical Legal Studies]

Estimating the Deterrent Effect of Incarceration Using Sentencing Enhancements [AEJ Applied]

The Imprisoner’s Dilemma: A Cost–Benefit Approach to Incarceration [Iowa Law Review]

The Law and Economics of Stop-and-Frisk [Loyola University Chicago Law Journal]

Putting the Trial Penalty on Trial [Duquesne Law Review]

Optimal Bail and the Value of Freedom: Evidence from the Philadelphia Bail Experiment [Economic Inquiry]

A Market for Justice: A First Empirical Look at Third Party Litigation Funding [Journal of Business Law]