most citedProsecutor Politics: The Impact of Election Cycles on Criminal Sentencing in the Era of Rising Incarceration

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econ.GN2021★ 1 cited

Prosecutor Politics: The Impact of Election Cycles on Criminal Sentencing in the Era of Rising Incarceration

Chika O. Okafor

Exploiting variation in the timing of district attorney elections across nearly 40 states during the steepest rise in U.S. incarceration (roughly 1986-2006), this paper shows that…

econ.GN2020★ 1 cited

Seeing Through Color Blindness: Social Networks as a Mechanism for Discrimination

Chika O. Okafor

I study labor markets in which firms both hire via referrals and are race blind or color-blind. I develop an employment model showing that despite initial equality in ability, empl…