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Working Papers

2025

1. Incentives to Produce Race-related Research
   CAGE Online Working Paper Series, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE)
   Also in The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS), University of Warwick, Department of Economics (2025)
2. Media Slant is Contagious
   Working Papers, HAL
   Also in Papers, arXiv.org (2025) View citations (3)
3. Race-related Research in Economics
   The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS), University of Warwick, Department of Economics
   Also in CAGE Online Working Paper Series, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE) (2025)
4. The Value of Worker Rights in Collective Bargaining
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   Also in CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo (2025)
   Cambridge Working Papers in Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge (2025)

2024

5. Gender attitudes in the judiciary: evidence from U.S. circuit courts
   Post-Print, HAL View citations (7)
   Also in CAGE Online Working Paper Series, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE) (2020) View citations (1)
   QAPEC Discussion Papers, Quantitative and Analytical Political Economy Research Centre (2021) View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Gender Attitudes in the Judiciary: Evidence from US Circuit Courts, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association (2024) View citations (9) (2024)
6. Judging disparities: Recidivism risk, image motives and in-group bias on Wisconsin criminal courts
   Discussion Papers, Nottingham Interdisciplinary Centre for Economic and Political Research (NICEP)
7. Seeing and Hearing is Believing: The Role of Audiovisual Communication in Shaping Inflation Expectations
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers
8. Towards Faithful and Robust LLM Specialists for Evidence-Based Question-Answering
   Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper Series, Swiss Finance Institute View citations (1)

2023

9. Automated Classification of Modes of Moral Reasoning in Judicial Decisions
   Working Papers, HAL
   Also in IAST Working Papers, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) (2018)
   TSE Working Papers, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) (2018) View citations (1)
10. In-Group Bias in the Indian Judiciary: Evidence from 5 Million Criminal Cases
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development
11. Measuring Gender and Religious Bias in the Indian Judiciary
    Working Papers, HAL
    Also in TSE Working Papers, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) (2022) View citations (2)
12. Text Algorithms in Economics
    CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers
    See also Journal Article Text Algorithms in Economics, Annual Review of Economics, Annual Reviews (2023) View citations (21) (2023)

2022

13. Bootstrapping Science? The Impact of a Return Human Capital Programme on Chinese Research Productivity
    CAGE Online Working Paper Series, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE)
    Also in The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS), University of Warwick, Department of Economics (2022)
14. Ideas Have Consequences: The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (13)
    Also in TSE Working Papers, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) (2022) View citations (7)
    Working Papers, HAL (2022) View citations (2)
15. Measuring Judicial Sentiment: Methods and Application to US Circuit Courts
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Measuring Judicial Sentiment: Methods and Application to US Circuit Courts, Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science (2022) View citations (1) (2022)
16. More Laws, More Growth? Evidence from U.S. States
    BAFFI CAREFIN Working Papers, BAFFI CAREFIN, Centre for Applied Research on International Markets Banking Finance and Regulation, Universita' Bocconi, Milano, Italy View citations (8)
    Also in CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2022) View citations (2)
17. RELATIO: Text Semantics Capture Political and Economic Narratives
    Papers, arXiv.org View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Relatio: Text Semantics Capture Political and Economic Narratives, Political Analysis, Cambridge University Press (2024) View citations (4) (2024)
18. Visual Representation and Stereotypes in News Media
    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (2)
    Also in CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2022)

2021

19. A Machine Learning Approach to Analyze and Support Anti-Corruption Policy
    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article A Machine Learning Approach to Analyze and Support Anticorruption Policy, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association (2025) (2025)
20. Economic Interests, Worldviews and Identities: Theory and Evidence on Ideational Politics
    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (6)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2021) View citations (6)
    CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2021)
21. Mindfulness Reduces Information Avoidance
    The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS), University of Warwick, Department of Economics View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Mindfulness reduces information avoidance, Economics Letters, Elsevier (2023) View citations (1) (2023)
22. Polarization and Political Selection
    BCAM Working Papers, Birkbeck Centre for Applied Macroeconomics
23. Race-related Research in Economics and Other Social Sciences
    CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

2020

24. Automated fact-value distinction in court opinions
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Automated fact-value distinction in court opinions, European Journal of Law and Economics, Springer (2020) View citations (1) (2020)
25. Mandatory Retirement for Judges Improved Performance on U.S. State Supreme Courts
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
    See also Journal Article Mandatory Retirement for Judges Improved the Performance of US State Supreme Courts, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association (2024) (2024)
26. Stereotypes in High-Stakes Decisions: Evidence from U.S. Circuit Courts
    The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS), University of Warwick, Department of Economics View citations (1)
27. The Effect of Fox News on Health Behavior During COVID-19
    SocArXiv, Center for Open Science View citations (30)
    See also Journal Article The Effect of Fox News on Health Behavior during COVID-19, Political Analysis, Cambridge University Press (2024) View citations (2) (2024)

2019

28. Case Vectors: Spatial Representations of the Law Using Document Embeddings
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (3)
29. Divided Government, Delegation, and Civil Service Reform
    CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers
    See also Journal Article Divided government, delegation, and civil service reform, Political Science Research and Methods, Cambridge University Press (2022) (2022)

2018

30. Analysis of Vocal Implicit Bias in SCOTUS Decisions Through Predictive Modelling
    TSE Working Papers, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)
    Also in Post-Print, HAL (2018)
    IAST Working Papers, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) (2018)
31. Learning Policy Levers: Toward Automated Policy Analysis Using Judicial Corpora
    IAST Working Papers, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST)
    Also in TSE Working Papers, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) (2018)
32. Mapping the Geometry of Law using Document Embeddings
    IAST Working Papers, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) View citations (3)
    Also in TSE Working Papers, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) (2018) View citations (3)
33. Motivated Reasoning in the Field: Partisanship in Precedent, Prose, Vote, and Retirement in U.S. Circuit Courts, 1800-2013
    IAST Working Papers, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) View citations (1)
    Also in TSE Working Papers, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) (2018) View citations (1)
34. What Kind of Judge is Brett Kavanaugh?
    Post-Print, HAL

2016

35. Reducing Partisanship in Judicial Elections Can Improve Judge Quality: Evidence from U.S. State Supreme Courts
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
    See also Journal Article Reducing partisanship in judicial elections can improve judge quality: Evidence from U.S. state supreme courts, Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier (2021) View citations (2) (2021)

2015

36. Election and Divisiveness: Theory and Evidence
    Working Papers, IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University View citations (4)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2015) View citations (13)

2014

37. Intrinsic Motivation in Public Service: Theory and Evidence from State Supreme Courts
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Intrinsic Motivation in Public Service: Theory and Evidence from State Supreme Courts, Journal of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Press (2015) View citations (22) (2015)

Journal Articles

2025

1. A Machine Learning Approach to Analyze and Support Anticorruption Policy
   American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2025, 17, (2), 162-93
   See also Working Paper A Machine Learning Approach to Analyze and Support Anti-Corruption Policy, CESifo Working Paper Series (2021) View citations (1) (2021)

2024

2. Conservative News Media and Criminal Justice: Evidence from Exposure to the Fox News Channel
   The Economic Journal, 2024, 134, (660), 1331-1355 View citations (1)
3. From viewers to voters: Tracing Fox News’ impact on American democracy
   Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 240, (C)
4. Gender Attitudes in the Judiciary: Evidence from US Circuit Courts
   American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16, (1), 314-50 View citations (9)
   See also Working Paper Gender attitudes in the judiciary: evidence from U.S. circuit courts, Post-Print (2024) View citations (7) (2024)
5. Mandatory Retirement for Judges Improved the Performance of US State Supreme Courts
   American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16, (1), 518-48
   See also Working Paper Mandatory Retirement for Judges Improved Performance on U.S. State Supreme Courts, NBER Working Papers (2020) (2020)
6. Relatio: Text Semantics Capture Political and Economic Narratives
   Political Analysis, 2024, 32, (1), 115-132 View citations (4)
   Also in Political Analysis, 2024, 32, (1), 156-156 (2024) View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper RELATIO: Text Semantics Capture Political and Economic Narratives, Papers (2022) View citations (1) (2022)
7. The Effect of Fox News on Health Behavior during COVID-19
   Political Analysis, 2024, 32, (2), 275-284 View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper The Effect of Fox News on Health Behavior During COVID-19, SocArXiv (2020) View citations (30) (2020)

2023

8. Cross-Domain Topic Classification for Political Texts
   Political Analysis, 2023, 31, (1), 59-80 View citations (2)
9. How Cable News Reshaped Local Government
   American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, 15, (4), 292-320 View citations (1)
10. Mindfulness reduces information avoidance
    Economics Letters, 2023, 224, (C) View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper Mindfulness Reduces Information Avoidance, The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) (2021) View citations (1) (2021)
11. Political Polarization and Judicial Selection
    Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, 2023, 4, (1), 1–27
12. Text Algorithms in Economics
    Annual Review of Economics, 2023, 15, (1), 659-688 View citations (21)
    See also Working Paper Text Algorithms in Economics, CEPR Discussion Papers (2023) (2023)

2022

13. Divided government, delegation, and civil service reform
    Political Science Research and Methods, 2022, 10, (1), 82-96
    See also Working Paper Divided Government, Delegation, and Civil Service Reform, CEPR Discussion Papers (2019) (2019)
14. Emotion and Reason in Political Language
    The Economic Journal, 2022, 132, (643), 1037-1059 View citations (17)
15. Measuring Judicial Sentiment: Methods and Application to US Circuit Courts
    Economica, 2022, 89, (354), 362-376 View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper Measuring Judicial Sentiment: Methods and Application to US Circuit Courts, Post-Print (2022) View citations (1) (2022)

2021

16. Measuring Discretion and Delegation in Legislative Texts: Methods and Application to US States
    Political Analysis, 2021, 29, (1), 43-57
17. Reducing partisanship in judicial elections can improve judge quality: Evidence from U.S. state supreme courts
    Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 201, (C) View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper Reducing Partisanship in Judicial Elections Can Improve Judge Quality: Evidence from U.S. State Supreme Courts, NBER Working Papers (2016) (2016)

2020

18. A research-based ranking of public policy schools
    Scientometrics, 2020, 125, (1), 499-531 View citations (1)
19. Automated fact-value distinction in court opinions
    European Journal of Law and Economics, 2020, 50, (3), 451-467 View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper Automated fact-value distinction in court opinions, Post-Print (2020) View citations (1) (2020)
20. Text classification of ideological direction in judicial opinions
    International Review of Law and Economics, 2020, 62, (C) View citations (4)

2018

21. Emerging Tools for a "Driverless" Legal System
    Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), 2018, 174, (1), 206-213
22. Sequential decision-making with group identity
    Journal of Economic Psychology, 2018, 69, (C), 1-18 View citations (6)

2015

23. Intrinsic Motivation in Public Service: Theory and Evidence from State Supreme Courts
    Journal of Law and Economics, 2015, 58, (4) View citations (22)
    See also Working Paper Intrinsic Motivation in Public Service: Theory and Evidence from State Supreme Courts, NBER Working Papers (2014) View citations (2) (2014)

2012

24. On the Behavioral Economics of Crime
    Review of Law & Economics, 2012, 8, (1), 181-213 View citations (23)