Jonathan Moreno-Medina, Bocar Ba, Aurelie Ouss, and Patrick Bayer speaking on Officer-Involved Shootings: The Media Language of Police Shootings.
The Hoover Institution hosts a seminar series on Using Text as Data in Policy Analysis, co-organized by Steven J. Davis and Justin Grimmer. These seminars will feature applications of natural language processing, structured human readings, and machine learning methods to text as data to examine policy issues in economics, history, national security, political science, and other fields.
Our 19th meeting features a conversation with Jonathan Moreno-Medina, Bocar Ba, Aurelie Ouss, and Patrick Bayer on Officer-Involved Shootings: The Media Language of Police Shootings on Thursday, May 25, 2023 from 9:00AM – 10:30AM PT.
Jonathan Moreno-Medina is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Texas–San Antonio. His research focuses on urban, public, and media economics. Moreno-Medina received his Ph.D. in economics from Duke University in 2021. He also earned an MA at Université catholique de Louvain and a BA from National University of Colombia.
Patrick Bayer’s research focuses on a wide range of subjects, including racial inequality and segregation, social interactions, discrimination, neighborhood effects, housing market dynamics, education, and criminal justice. His most recent work has been published in Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Review, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. He is currently working on various projects that examine unequal jury representation and its consequences, school spending, the intergenerational consequences of residential segregation, neighborhood tipping, gentrification, policing, and criminal justice. Bayer is currently the Gilhuly Family Distinguished Professor in Economics at Duke University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He served as chair of the the Duke Economics Department from 2009 to 2015. Bayer received his PhD in economics from Stanford University in 1999 and his BA in mathematics from Princeton University in 1994. He served on the faculty of Yale University for seven years before joining Duke’s Economics Department in 2006.
Bocar Ba is assistantan assistant professor of economics at Duke University and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Using insights from the labor economics and political economy literature, he seeks to understand police use of force, overall police officer behavior, and what cities want from their local law enforcement. His recent work focuses on evaluating ways to reduce the scope of policing in our society and evaluating the demands of police abolitionists. With the Invisible Institute, he has built the Citizens Police Data Project website (https://cpdp.co), which collects information on Chicago police officers, including misconduct, use of force, and awards. He is also an academic advisor for Police Scorecard (https://policescorecard.org) and Mapping Police Violence (https://mappingpoliceviolence.org), websites collecting information on police performance and police killings in the United States. His research on policing and public safety has been published in Science, the Journal of Labor Economics, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. He holds a BSc in economics from the Université du Québec à Montréal, an MA in economics from the University of British Columbia, and an MPP/PhD in public policy from the University of Chicago.
Aurélie Ouss is Assistant Professor of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research examines how good design of criminal justice institutions and policies can make law enforcement fairer and more efficient. Her work, conducted in collaboration with court actors in place like New York, Philadelphia or Paris, has been published in journals such as Science and The Journal of Political Economy. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, a Masters in Economics from the Paris School of Economics and a B.A. in Econometrics and Sociology from Ecole Normale Superieure. She came to Penn after a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago Crime Lab.
Steven J. Davis is senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and professor of economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He studies business dynamics, labor markets, and public policy. He advises the U.S. Congressional Budget Office and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, co-organizes the Asian Monetary Policy Forum and is co-creator of the Economic Policy Uncertainty Indices, the Survey of Business Uncertainty, and the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes.
Justin Grimmer is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. His current research focuses on American political institutions, elections, and developing new machine-learning methods for the study of politics.
