Research

Current Projects

“Does Staying Connected Matter? The Impact of Prison Visitation on Recidivism”

“Prison Diversion for Parents” (Arnold Ventures Research Grant, PI)

“An evaluation of Crisis-Intervention Team (CIT) training” (working paper, RePEC 2022)

Police officers in the United States are most often the first responders to a mental health crisis. The most popular training method for police officers response to mental health crises among US police departments is crisis-intervention team (CIT) training. This paper provides the first estimates of the causal effect of CIT training on a police officer’s propensity to use force and make an arrest. I implement a difference-in-differences framework using future trainees as controls to compare officer use of force and arrest of trained officers to those of untrained officers. I do not find a statistically significant effect of CIT training on either use of force or propensity to arrest.

Pre-PhD Publications

“The Distributional Financial Accounts of the United States” with Michael Batty, Jesse Bricker, Joseph Briggs, Sarah Friedman, Eric Nielsen, Kamila Sommer and Alice Henriques Volz (Chapter in NBER Books Series Studies in Income and Wealth 2020)

This paper describes the construction of the Distributional Financial Accounts (DFA), a dataset containing quarterly estimates of the distribution of US household wealth since 1989. The DFA builds on two existing Federal Reserve Board statistical products—quarterly aggregate measures of household wealth from the Financial Accounts of the United States, and triennial wealth distribution measures from the Survey of Consumer Finances—to incorporate distributional information into a national accounting framework. The DFA complements other sources by generating distributional statistics that are consistent with macro aggregates by providing quarterly data on a timely basis, and by constructing wealth distributions across demographic characteristics. We encourage policymakers, researchers, and other interested parties to use the DFA to better understand issues related to the distribution of US household wealth.

“The Stability of Safe Asset Production” with Sara Almasani, Michael Batty, and Wayne Passmore (FEDS Note 2020)