Research

Published

Police Brutality, Law Enforcement, and Crime: Evidence from Chicago. Journal of Urban Economics (2024) 103630. [Adapted from Master’s Thesis]

Earnings Dynamics, Changing Job Skills, and STEM Careers (with David Deming). The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2020) 135(4): 1965-2005.

• Summary at Microeconomic Insights
• Link to Online Appendix
• Podcast Discussions:  Hardly Working – Episode 20 | InequaliTalks – Episode 6
• Selected Media: The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Forbes, Education Next, and the American Enterprise Institute (here and here)

Political Corruption and Public Activism: An Evolutionary Game-Theoretic Analysis (with William Abram). Dynamic Games and Applications (2018), 8(1), 1-21. [Adapted from Undergraduate Thesis]

Working Papers

Whose Bridge to Opportunity and Why? Unpacking the Impacts of Sectoral Job Training (with Namrata Narain)

Communication and Systemic Disadvantage: Evidence from the Rise in Social Skills (with Savannah Noray)

Research in Progress

Selecting for Diverse Talent: Theory and Evidence (with Neil Natarajan)

Overlooked Talent: Evidence from the Tech Industry (with Peter Bergman, Tushar Kundu, & Aline Lerner)

Reevaluating Matching in the Age of Big Data (with Raj Chetty & Lawrence Katz)

Who Works Well in Diverse Teams? (with David Deming & Ben Weidmann)

Policy Writing

Noray, K. (2021). The Labor Market Value of Character Skills. B. Orrell (Ed.). Minding our Workforce: The Role of Noncognitive Skills (1, 55-92). Washington DC: American Enterprise Institute.