Publications
Campaign Advertising and Election Outcomes: Quasi-natural Experiment Evidence from Gubernatorial Elections in Brazil (with João M. P. de Mello), Review of Economic Studies, 2011, 78(2), 590-612

Do Judges' Characteristics Matter? Ethnicity, Gender and Partisanship in State Trial Courts (with Claire S. H. Lim and James M. Snyder) American Law and Economics Review, 2016, 18(2), 302-357

Bargaining with Asymmetric Information: An Empirical Study of Plea Negotiations (online appendix) (additional material) (coverage in Microeconomic Insights) Econometrica, 2017, 85(2), 419-452

Understanding Disparities in Punishment: Regulator Preferences and Expertise (with Karam Kang) Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129(10), 2947-2992

The Electoral Connection in Court: How Sentencing Responds to Voter Preferences (with Joshua Boston), forthcoming at the Journal of Law and Courts

Fairness in Incomplete Information Bargaining: Theory and Widespread Evidence from the Field (with Dan Keniston, Brad Larsen, Shengwu Li, JJ Prescott and Chuan Yu), forthcoming at the International Economic Review, NBER Working paper 29111, SIEPR Working Paper 21-042

Working Papers

Risk and Information in Dispute Resolution: An Empirical Study of Arbitration (with Yunmi Kong and Xun Tang), revise and resubmit at the Journal of Political Economy

Assessing the Objective Function of the SEC against Financial Misconduct: A Structural Approach (with Chuan Chen, Yanrong Jia and Xiumin Martin), second-round revise and resubmit at the Journal of Accounting and Economics (coverage in the Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog)

Information Frictions and Court Performance: Experimental Evidence from Chile (with Paloma Carillo, Daniel L. Chen and Manuel Ramos-Maqueda)

On the Origins of Prosecutorial Charge Evolution: How Booking Charges Shape Racial Disparity in Sentencing Outcomes (with Emily Owens and Erin Kerrison), available upon request

Reports
Examining Racial Disparities in Criminal Case Outcomes among Indigent Defendants in San Francisco (with Emily Owens and Erin Kerrison) (summary report)