Defense attorney quality matters, and more for Black than White defendants. If 50 percent of indigent counsel were top-10 percent quality, the racial gap in jail sentencing would decline by 11 percent, from Maya Mikdash, Mark Hoekstra, and Suhyeon Oh https://t.co/DFQogalWLr
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "The Role of Race in the Legal Representation of Low-Income Defendants" by Maya Mikdash and Suhyeon Oh. https://t.co/yngmvljGfv
I'm on the job market this year! My #EconJMP examines the long run and intergenerational impacts of institutional discrimination against immigrants. Here's a thread of what I find (1/8)🧵
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Drs. Brittany Street & Liisa Laine were named research affiliates of Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). IZA, affiliated with the University of Bonn, is a nonprofit research institute and network. It is considered the leading international network in labor economics in the world.
My student @Wesley_A_Miller is on the market! His JMP combines a beautiful natural experiment (comparing homes just above & below the water line when Hurricane Harvey flooded Houston) w an array of super cool data to measure short & long term outcomes. Check out the thread below!
I’m excited to announce that I’m on the 2023-24 econ job market working on public, labor, and environmental topics! Here is an overview of my JMP “Natural Disasters and Neighborhood Choice: Evidence from Hurricane Harvey.” 1/8