Category: Working

• February 4, 2022

  “I feel Threatened”: Measuring Racial Distrust in America from 911 Calls

  Working Paper Available on SSRN (with Uttara Ananthakrishnan and Anuj Kumar) The prevalence of anti-Black bias in policing has long been of concern to social scientists and policymakers. This article studies a predecessor mechanism that constitutes an important source of policing bias in American society: calls by individuals to police to investigate “suspicious” behaviors, often…
• February 4, 2022

  Which Businesses Enroll in Innovation Training? Evidence from a Field Experiment

  Working Paper Forthcoming (with Pasclale Crama, Reddi Kotha, Cintia Kulzer Sacilotto and Vish Krishnan) We report results from a field experiment testing hypotheses that examine what drives firms to seek new learning opportunities. Specifically, we draw on behavioral theory of the firm to predict how prior performance affects the likelihood a firm enrolls in business…
• September 22, 2018

  Helpful behavior and the durability of collaborative ties

  Organization Science (with Sampsa Samila and Alexander Oettl) Long-term collaborations are crucial in many creative domains. Although there is ample research on why people collaborate, our knowledge about what drives some collaborations to persist and others to decay is still emerging. In this paper, we extend theory on third-party effects and collaborative persistence to study…