Does it matter who writes the news? I study this question by looking at gender differences in reporting on violence against women in Italy. Matching the universe of murders with female victims in 2006--2022 to newspaper articles, I construct indexes …
This paper studies racial in-group disparities in Wisconsin, which has one of the highest Black-to-White incarceration rates among all U.S. states. The analysis is motivated by a model in which a judge may want to incarcerate more due to three …
This paper studies the visual representation of crime in U.S. news and whether policies aimed at protecting the identity of arrested individuals affect crime reporting. We assemble 3.46 million crime articles published by 1,848 outlets between 2015 …
Social divides extend beyond race and gender, but less visible dimensions of social background are rarely recorded in data. We study whether judges treat defendants differently when they are socially closer to them. We measure social proximity as the …