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Publications

"Policing and Indigenous Civilian Deaths in Canada" with Drake Rushford and David Weaver. Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, August 2022

“Law Enforcement Officers' Bills of Rights and Police Violence” with Jamein Cunningham, Donna Feir, Matt Harvey, and Abdul Rad. AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

“Expenditures, Efficiency and Distribution: Advice for the 43rd Canadian Parliament" with Trevor Tombe. Canadian Tax Journal, April 2020

“Don't Shoot! The Impact of Historical African American Protest on Police Killings of Civilians” with Jamein Cunningham. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, December 2019
  • Coverage from NPR The World​

“A Ferguson Effect, the Drug Epidemic, Both, or Neither? Explaining the 2015 and 2016 U.S. Homicide Rises by Race and Ethnicity” with Shytierra Gaston and Jamein Cunningham. Homicide Studies, May 2019 

“The Effects of the Neighborhood Legal Services Program on Riots and the Wealth of African Americans” with Jamein Cunningham. The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 4(6): 144-157 October 2018 
  • Coverage from the Chicago Policy Review

“Return to the Homeland? The Impact of the Great Recession on Employment Outcomes and Labor Mobility for Native Americans” with Donna Feir. Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 1(2-3): 60-74 September 2018
  • Coverage from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth

“Racial Differences in Police Use of Force: Evidence form the 1960s Civil Disturbances” with Jamein Cunningham. AEA Papers and Proceedings, 108: 217-221 May 2018 

“The Impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade on Ethnic Stratification in Africa” with Warren Whatley. American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 101(3): 571-76 May 2011. (Online Appendix)

“The Fundamental Impact of the Slave Trade on African Economies” with Warren Whatley in Economic Evolution and Revolution in Historical Time, ed. P. Rhode, J.Rosenbloom and D. Weiman, 86-110 . Stanford: Stanford University Press. January 2011. 

Working Papers Under Review
“Collective Bargaining Rights, Policing, and Civilian Deaths” with Jamein Cunningham and Donna Feir. IZA Discussion Paper No. 14208, March 2021. (Reject and Resubmit at AEJ: Policy)
  • Coverage from NPR Planet Money, Washington Post, the New Yorker, Bloomberg, the Economist, Vox, Vice, and CBC​

“The Slaughter of the Bison and Reversal of Fortunes on the Great Plains” with Donna Feir and Maggie Jones. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis CICD Working Paper 2019-01, January 2019. (Second revision resubmitted at the Review of Economic Studies)
  • Coverage from the Minneapolis Star Tribune, MinnPost, The Bulletin, CBC, Conversable Economist, Inside Science
  • EBHS Fred Bateman Prize Winner

“Illuminating Economic Development in Indigenous Communities” with Donna Feir and Maggie Jones. University of Victoria Department Discussion Paper DDP1806, September 2018. (Revision requested at the Canadian Journal of Economics)

Other Working Papers 
“The Determinants and Impacts of Historical Treaty-Making in Canada” (email for latest draft) with Donna Feir and Maggie Jones. 

“Did the War on Poverty Stop the 1960s Race Riots?”
  • Coverage from Bloomberg

“Labour Law Enforcement During World War II and the Growth of the US Trade Union Movement” 

Works in Progress
“African American Uprisings and Police Violence: 1950-2016” with Jamein Cunningham and Travis Campbell. 

“An Event History Analysis of the Local Conditions Behind Black Lives Matter” with Jamein Cunningham. 

“First Nations Policing, Crime, and the Use of Lethal Force” with Drake Rushford, Sara Wray Enns, and David Weaver.

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The Causal Impacts of Police Expenditures in Canada: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity” with Jamein Cunningham, Drake Rushford, and David Weaver.

"Votes in the Wind: The Dust Bowl and American Elections" with Injamam Alam.

"Do Taxes on Foreign Purchasers Lower Housing Prices? Evidence from British Columbia​" with Deaglan Jakob.

"Estimating Minimum Wage Effects in Canada Across Provincial Boundaries" with Maggie Jones and Jerome Lyons.



Last Updated: August 2022
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