@ProfDesmondAng

economist @Kennedy_School

 Cambridge, MA
scholar.harvard.edu/ang
Joined June 2020
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Great to see ``Police Violence and Civic Responses” with @ProfDesmondAng in print! We find exposure to police violence causally increases registrations and votes. Effects are driven entirely by Black and Hispanic citizens and are largest for killings of unarmed people. A 🧵 1/:
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Lawrence Katz@lkatz4228 Sep 2021
A terrific and well-deserved MacArthur Fellowship to Jesse Shapiro for his innovative work on political economy and polarization, economics of media, and behavioral economics!
Colin Camerer@CFCamerer28 Sep 2021
New class of 2021 MacArthur Fellows is incredible. Thrilled to see @BrownUniversity behavioral economist (and more) Jesse Shapiro honored— he is a rare combination of creative, methodical, and wide-ranging macfound.org/programs/fellow…
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HKS’s @MarcellaAlsan has won the @macfound Fellowship, recognizing her work on the legacies of discrimination in perpetuating racial disparities in health. She’s the first current and first female HKS professor to win the genius grant ken.sc/3CTDoZ0
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Great article featuring my work w/ @PankaBencsik @jmb112485 @EDerenoncourt on how the murder of George Floyd affected civilian cooperation with law enforcement
The Economist
@TheEconomist22 Sep 2021
After George Floyd’s death on May 25th the number of 911 calls for every gun death or injury fell by almost half econ.st/3EEUlbm
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Father Coughlin had a devoted following of 30 million radio listeners who tuned in to hear his populist tirades in the 1930s. We spoke with @Tianyi91 on what his research reveals about Coughlin's influence and the persuasiveness of popular media figures. aeaweb.org/research/tiyani-w…

Demagoguery on the airwaves

Tianyi Wang discusses Father Coughlin’s populist radio broadcasts and their effects on public opinion during the Great Depression.

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Job Market Candidate: #PIERfellow Alum Mark Chin (@MemeMedianMode) cepr.harvard.edu/job-market
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Savoring these kind words from THE Shamus Khan. Anyway, yes, I did drop a new—shorter! (Don’t look at the appendix though 😂)—version of my working paper on the backlash to the Great Migration. Lessons from the biggest natural experiment in MTO in American history.
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Finally, we find no evidence that effects were reversed by Derek Chauvin's conviction. Our results suggest high-profile acts of police violence can inflict lasting damage to civilian trust, a key input into law enforcement's ability to solve crimes & maintain public safety. 4/5
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For more details, see the full working paper here: scholar.harvard.edu/files/an…. Comments welcome. 5/5
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Declines are prevalent across Black, Hispanic and white neighborhoods, despite the latter's relatively limited direct exposure to police violence. 2/5
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Changes in civilian engagement with police after Floyd's murder are closely tracked by shifts in attitudes towards the institution, again across demographic groups. 3/5
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How does police violence affect public cooperation w/ law enforcement? In a new WP w/ @pankabencsik @jmb112485 @ederenoncourt, we find large declines in crime-reporting after the murder of George Floyd. Across 8 cities, 911 calls per gunshot drop by 50% & total calls by 25%. 1/5
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Employment Structure and the Rise of the Modern Tax System" by Anders Jensen. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12…

Employment Structure and the Rise of the Modern Tax System

(January 2022) - This paper builds a new microdatabase that covers 100 countries at all income levels and long-run time series in the United States (1870–2010) and Mexico (1960–2010) to document how...

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We are looking for a research assistant @Kennedy_School. Come and work with Lena Shi, @ProfDavidDeming and me! Details on the position⬇️
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How can we restore civil dialogue in the U.S.? Political scientist Jane Mansbridge may have a solution. hrvd.me/mansbridge6754t

Jane Mansbridge offers a solution to mending a riven democracy

As part of The Solutions series, we interview Jane Mansbridge about a proven idea to help citizens engage in civil dialogue.

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Attention #EconTwitter PhD students! If you're a woman/nonbinary econ PhD student entering your 3rd or 4th year of the PhD, apply to participate in this mentoring workshop. Nov 19th in Houston, the day before the #SEA2021 meetings. Deadline: July 30. aeaweb.org/about-aea/committ…
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Huge thanks to @jenniferdoleac! She was one of the first people to tweet about this paper - back when I was poor grad student trying to land a job - so it's super cool to now be discussing it on @ProbCausation
Probable Causation
@ProbCausation27 Apr 2021
Episode 50: @ProfDesmondAng talks about how police violence affects students' academic outcomes & well-being probablecausation.com/podcas…

Episode 50: Desmond Ang — Probable Causation

Date: April 27, 2021

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Report from @RheaBoydMD, @fernandodemaio, @DrAlethaMaybank and Nancy Krieger in @Health_Affairs finds that top medical journals rarely publish articles showing how racism harms health. If you don’t even talk about it, you certainly can’t address it. ti.me/3tJ69DA

The World’s Leading Medical Journals Don't Write About Racism. That's a Problem

"It is past time for the world’s leading medical journals to name racism, publish evidence on how racism harms health, and articulate how dismantling racism can prevent racial health inequities."

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Congratulations to Isaiah Andrews of @Harvard, winner of the 2021 John Bates Clark Medal! aeaweb.org/about-aea/honors-…
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Latest research by HKS's @ProfDesmondAng measures the lasting impact of century-old racist movie The Birth of a Nation and the ways it incited significant increases in racial violence ken.sc/3a5bz4j
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