Articles
Searching for Efficient Enforcement: Officer Characteristics and Racially Biased Policing (with Billy R. Close), Review of Law & Economics (2008)
This study empirically investigates whether racial and ethnic differences in police searches of stopped drivers...
Searching for efficient enforcement: officer characteristics and racially biased policing (with Billy R. Close), Review of Law and Economics (2007)
This study empirically investigates whether racial and ethnic differences in police searches of stopped drivers...
After the Traffic Stops: Officer Characteristics and Enforcement Actions (with Billy R. Close), The B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis & Policy (2006)
This study examines the relationship between officer characteristics and racially biased policing. In particular, we...
Intergenerational Mobility and Interracial Inequality: The Return to Family Values, Industrial Relations (2006)
This paper investigates two questions. First, what is the relative importance of the components of...
The economics of identity: The origin and persistence of racial identity norms (with William A. Darity and James B. Stewart), Journal of Economic Organization and Behavior (2006)
This study uses evolutionary game theory to model the relationship between racial identity formation and...
Unpublished Papers
Opting for innovation: selecting highly skilled workers as a competitive strategy in the Jamaican economy, Social and Economic Studies (2013)
This paper empirically examines the relationship between a firm’s financial success and its innovation strategy,...
Hispanic ancestry and racial self-identity (2013)
This paper investigates factors that are quantitatively important for transforming Hispanic ancestry into self-identified discrete...
Culture matters: America’s African Diaspora and labor market outcomes (2009)
This paper contrasts the explanatory power of the mono-cultural and diversity models of racial disparity....
Identity matters: inter- and intra-racial disparity and labor market outcomes (2009)
Standard econometric analysis of African American – white inequality incorporates racial classification as an exogenous...
DISTRIBUTIONAL ANALYSIS OF LABOR AND PROPERTY INCOME AMONG NEW SENIORS AND EARLY RETIREES: BY RACE, GENDER, REGION, AND INTERTEMPORAL COHORT, 1965-2006 (2009)
The tables herein provide detailed descriptive statistics for changes in labor and property income during...