Roman Gabriel Rivera
Assistant Professor of Public Policy
Georgetown University
Bio: I am a labor economist studying policing and crime. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University in 2023.
McCourt School of Public Policy
Georgetown University
Email: rgr35@georgetown.edu
Research
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Working Papers
Market Response to Racial Uprisings
(with Bocar Ba and Alexander Whitefield)
Conditionally Accepted at Journal of Political Economy
The Price of Corrupt Justice: Evidence from Progressive Era Chicago
(Previously titled: Performance Pay and Multitasking Police)
Mispricing Narratives after Social Unrest
(with Bocar Ba, Abdoulaye Ndiaye, and Alexander Whitefield)
The Relationship between Officer Misconduct and Conviction-less Arrests
(with Bocar Ba and Nayoung Rim)
Revise & Resubmit at Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Positive Incentives: The Income Effect and The Optimal Regulation of Crime
(with W. Bentley MacLeod)
Police Officer Assignment and Neighborhood Crime
(with Bocar Ba, Patrick Bayer, Nayoung Rim, and Modibo Sidibe)
Published Articles
Release, Detain, or Surveil? The Effect of Electronic Monitoring on Defendant Outcomes
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2026
The Effect of Police Oversight on Crime and Allegations of Misconduct: Evidence from Chicago
(with Bocar Ba)
The Review of Economics and Statistics, January 2026
Do Peers Matter in the Police Academy?
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2025
Political Diversity in U.S. Police Agencies
(with Bocar Ba, Haosen Ge, Jacob Kaplan, Dean Knox, Mayya Komisarchik, Gregory Lanzalotto, Rei Mariman, Jonathan Mummolo, and Michelle Torres)
American Journal of Political Science, February 2025
The Black-White Recognition Gap in Award Nominations
(with Nayoung Rim, Andrea Kiss, and Bocar Ba)
Journal of Labor Economics, January 2024
Peer Effects in Police Use of Force
(with Justin Holz and Bocar Ba)
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2023
The Role of Officer Race and Gender in Police-Civilian Interactions in Chicago
(with Bocar Ba, Dean Knox, and Jonathan Mummolo)
Science, February 2021
Disparities in Police Award Nominations: Evidence from Chicago
(with Nayoung Rim and Bocar Ba)
AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020