Luca Rizzotti works on discrimination and crime. While the literature has focused on suspects, Luca studies discrimination against victims. Using detailed data from Chicago, he provides evidence in favor of discrimination against minority victims.
www.lucarizzotti.com
Maria Mercedes Ponce de Leon works on gender and crime. Using detailed data on 911 calls from Seattle and quasi-experimental variation in the gender of responding officers, she finds that female officers are more effective in handling domestic violence.
www.mariamercedesponcedeleon.com
Aarushi Kalra experiments with the algorithm for a social media platform in India. Shifting away from an engagement-maximizing algorithm reduces hate speech. But this comes at a substantial cost to the platform in the form of lower engagement.
aarushirita.github.io
Jake Fabian studies a reform in the National Flood Insurance Program under which premiums were updated to better reflect flood risk. He finds that increases in insurance rates are associated with a reduction in development after the reform.
www.jacobfabian.com
I am writing four letters for PhD job market candidates from Brown Economics and am excited to let you know about their research. In alphabetical order:
