This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

Very excited to see my podcast with John Parman about our review of the racial segregation literature is out! Listen to “Reviewing Residential Segregation” here: www.aeaweb.org/research/rac... via @aeajournals.bsky.social

This is cool. Large, high-quality RCT shows that an over-the-counter antihistamine nasal spray protects against catching Covid.

Looking for research funding? Arnold Ventures has several open RFPs. This includes a standing RFP for causal research related to US crime/the CJ system/ppl w criminal records. First step is a 3-page LOI. We aim to get you a funding decision within 3 months of that first step.

I don't know who needs to hear this but slavery was bad.

Anyone know why this German UBI experiment seems to be have big impacts, while the US ones are mostly zip ?

What a fantastic accomplishment -- and what a fantastic story! www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...

A description of researcher initiative that is both accurate (imo) + unflattering

This is so important and long overdue.

Moving piece of journalism with gorgeous photographs

The images of children starved to death in Gaza should be the lead of every news program.

🚨 New NBER working paper: "The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Parenting and Children" This paper estimates the effects of receiving a $1,000/month guaranteed income for 3 years, compared to a control group receiving $50/month, on children and parents in the US. 1/

My keynote address for the Chicago Journal of International Law's symposium is now in print: cjil.uchicago.edu In addition, the Research Agenda for Global Power Shifts and International Economic Law, edited by Joel Slawtowsky, is now out: www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/a-r...

This week, millions across the US are under a sweltering heat dome. Heat waves are especially deadly for incarcerated people, as prisons are not equipped to handle these environmental emergencies – which will only get worse because of climate change.

I see a lot of people responding as if the factual claims of this lawsuit are false. I bet they are true; for a number of years, explicitly trying to increase race/gender representation was considered a good thing. I wish there was more vocal defense of that rather than pretending it never occurred.

The whole “population decline panic” thing is SOOO explicitly eugenic. There are *plenty* of babies being born, they are just more likely to be brown than white. Eugenics was always pro-natalist for the right “types” - its not just sterilization for the wrong types. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/w...

Worthwhile read for people who have kids, or like kids

Whoa it has like hundreds of detailed article editor reports about HLR submissions, mostly 2024. This seems like prime research material for anyone who wants to write a paper about the law review publication process.

“Prioritize working on the projects closest to publication“ Good advice

Seeing the discussion on fragile p-values makes me feel that a fair chunk of people are signing on without thinking too deeply. The argument goes that fragile p-values were 32% of findings and are now 26% of findings, roughly the expected amount... www.science.org/content/arti...

““Every day, we lose more ways to survive,” she said. “My son is only asking for the bare minimum — a loaf of bread. We’re not asking for proper housing or clothes or even meat. All we want is a loaf of bread to stop the children’s crying. Is that too much to ask?”” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/w...

South Dakota Law Review is doing a joint symposium with the Native America Law Student Association on issues related to access to justice in Indian Country. Call for papers is open and the event will be in Vermillion on Sept 29. Please share widely. Details here: www.usd.edu/Academics/Co...

I finally made a webpage! sites.google.com/view/megan-s...

This is an absolutely wild take. I don’t think teachers to be trying to impress on students that using LLMs is morally wrong. There’s certainly reasons for concern about LLMs in society, but they are also so *incredibly* useful.

Looks very interesting

A few months ago, a hacker got into UVA‘s payroll system and managed to steal my January paycheck. UVA and @uvalaw.bsky.social are refusing to reissue me my check and, as far as I know, have done nothing to fix the security lapses. Please RT so other employees know to take precautions. 1/

A relatedly bad idea is working on research you don't deeply believe in for pragmatic reasons. You start with "oh, it'll be a quick low-hanging fruit project" and 9 months later you're still working on it and in despair

The student paper at the college at which I teach reports a "tsunami of takedown requests" from international students terrified of being targeted for innocuous, legitimate op-eds & opinions.. Many ask in person--leave no trace in writing. Reminds me of my father's account of studying in the USSR.

This is a great article that portrays the human costs of right-wing attacks on parole eligibility (and the use of static risk factors in algorithms ostensibly designed to rationalize the process). And it features my colleague @meganstevenson.bsky.social who knows a lot about this stuff!

Can someone explain to me why you’re not supposed to use previously treated groups as controls in a stacked DiD? Groups experience all sorts of shocks with dynamic & heterogeneous effects, what is special about prior treatment that makes it an invalid control? #econsky

If you’re a law school VAP or junior lawprof writing in the areas I am familiar with (4th Amendment, computer crime law, crim more broadly, etc), I’m happy to offer you quick feedback on your article ideas. Just email me, okerr [at] law dot stanford dot edu.

I was just at a 16 person seminar where I was the only woman. It’s been a while since that happened!

Apparently sewage is measured in hours

In honor of long COVID awareness day, I wanted to speak about what my experience is like, 25 months in. I am much better but still only leave the house a couple times a week. 1/

An important read for those interested in criminal justice: It’s a myth that most prisoners wind up back in prison. This paper explains how that myth got started. asc41.org/publications...

I'm beginning to put together the summer schedule for the ViCE seminar. If you have a paper related to crime or the criminal justice system that you'd like to present, please email me! Current & past schedules: jenniferdoleac.com/vice-seminar/

Paper🧵! We.... 1) develop a framework for identification w/ multiple treatments in a judge IV design 2) find that felony conviction (without incarceration) increases recidivism relative to dismissal with @johneric.bsky.social Aurelie Ouss @winnievd.bsky.social and Kamelia Stavreva 1/

After a long wait, the working paper for the Many-Economists Project: The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics. We had 146 teams perform the same research three times, each time with less freedom. What source of freedom leads to different choices and results? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

While the (quasi-) experimental methods increase credibility of causal results, there are two related concerns that make studies hard to replicate: 1. decline in reporting of null results 2. increase in use of private sector data a mini thread 🧵based on work with @trfetzer.com

Cool to be #33 on this list of top 100 legal scholars 😀 And go Danielle Citron #1! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Happy Black History Month. Thank god racism is over and was never really a big deal to begin with. It was really nice of Black people to work for free for all those centuries.

This new paper is so cool! It shows that the media use passive voice, nominalizations, and intransitive verbs that obscure responsibility in cases of police killings. Because they do this, citizens are less likely to hold police officers responsible for bad behavior.

Holy forking shirt balls "Denial of a wanted abortion has both immediate and lasting effects. It increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months, mainly due to unsafe abortion procedures, and raises the likelihood of carrying the pregnancy to term by 31 p.p. "

Kiah was set to join our faculty at Howard Law School in the Fall. She was a dedicated, brilliant civil rights lawyer poised to make a powerful difference in our world. Our hearts are broken & we pray for her family & friends. www.kwch.com/2025/01/30/c...

"Well, it must've been a minority's fault" is just pure uncut racism.

The recent attacks on trans people is just disgusting. Let people live. Give them respect. It's simple.

A great conference in a great city

I’m looking for some sort of LLM that can act like a sophisticated search of a large number of PDFs. Ideally, it would be able to handle a couple hundred 20 to 80 page documents. Any suggestions?