Police department design, political pressure, and racial inequality in arrests
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract This paper theorizes a source of bias in discretionary arrests: strategic limits on police officer learning. Officers have a variety of tactics at their disposal besides arrest that they use for less serious offenses when they judge the underlying behavior to be less severe. In departments led by a chief with special expertise in crime control,
Andrew J. McCall
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A quantum probabilistic framework for reasoning coherence under contextual variability. [PDF]
Front CognitWhittle-Walls G.
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Reviewing fast or slow: A theory of summary reversal in the judicial hierarchy
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Appellate courts with discretionary dockets have multiple ways to review lower courts. We develop a formal model that evaluates the trade‐offs between “full review”—which features full briefing, oral arguments, and signed opinions—versus “quick review,” where a higher court can summarily reverse a lower court. We show that having the option of
Alexander V. Hirsch +2 more
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QRNN-GRU framework for automatic argument and annotation extraction in medical drug reviews. [PDF]
Sci RepAltameem E, Alnuem M, Albassam S.
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Long‐run confidence: Estimating uncertainty when using long‐run multipliers
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Researchers are often interested in the long‐run relationship (LRR) between variables where the dependent variable has dynamic properties. Though determining the long‐run multiplier (LRM) for an independent variable is straightforward, correctly estimating the significance of the LRM is often difficult, especially when time series are short ...
Mark David Nieman, David A. M. Peterson
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What Drives Change? Characterizing Scientific Self-Efficacy Development in Undergraduate Research Experiences. [PDF]
CBE Life Sci EducZhang Q +3 more
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Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of environmental attention on cryptocurrency market volatility by introducing the Crypto Environmental Attention Index (CEAI), a new metric inspired by Wang et al. (2022) and constructed using daily web search data.
Ines Ghazouani +2 more
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Politicians' email communication with voters: A field experiment for the 2021 Bundestag elections. [PDF]
PLoS OneKöhler EA, May MD.
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Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A common assumption is that firms become more socially responsible over time. Indeed, numerous conceptual papers focus on the issue of describing the CSR states that firms advance through. Yet, related empirical research remains limited and the assumption of steady progression across CSR states remains untested.
Christopher Groening +1 more
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Learning from and about scientists: Consensus messaging shapes perceptions of climate change and climate scientists. [PDF]
PNAS NexusOrchinik R +4 more
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