Media Coverage

“Ban the Box: Should We Banish the Criminal History Check Box from Job Applications” — Open to Debate podcast, April 19, 2024.

“Why Violent Crime is Up” — The Political Orphanage podcast, April 3, 2024.

“How to get people to quit crime” — Slow Boring podcast, June 20, 2023.

“Fighting Crime Requires More Police and Less Prosecution” — Bloomberg Opinion, May 30, 2023.

“What are the best ways to address crime?” — You Might Be Right podcast, May 24, 2023.

“Criminal Evidence” (part 1) (part 2) — The Gist podcast, May 17-18, 2023.

“Jennifer Doleac: reducing crime, policing, justice, policy” — Ben Yeoh Chats podcast, May 8, 2023.

“Big talk, slow progress from Mayor Lightfoot on anti-violence programs” — Illinois Answers Project, February 17, 2023.

“‘Cesspool’ Website Under Fire as Economists Confront Harassment” — Bloomberg, January 8, 2023.

“Nobel Prize-Winning Economics Professor Faces Harassment Inquiry” — Bloomberg, December 16, 2022.

“Harassment in Economics Doesn’t Stay in Economics” — The Atlantic, November 26, 2022.

“The case for more police” – Briones Society podcast, November 2, 2022.

“‘We’re Done Waiting’: In Economics, Frustrations Over Harassment Take an Explicit Turn Online” — Chronicle of Higher Education, October 28, 2022.

“On #EconTwitter, #MeToo anger is boiling over” — The 19th, October 28, 2022.

“Future Perfect 50: Jennifer Doleac is helping us find nuanced, effective ways to fight crime” – Vox, October 20, 2022.

“Why is Violent Crime Rising?” — ‘What Could Go Right?’ podcast, The Progress Network. October 5, 2022.

“The best way to end mass incarceration is to catch more criminals” — Slow Boring. October 3, 2022.

“Want to fight crime? Hire a teen this summer” — Albuquerque Journal. July 30, 2022.

“Beyoncé’s ‘Break My Soul’ Inspired Quitters. Economists Are Divided Over It.” — Wall Street Journal. June 28, 2022.

“How to prevent gun deaths without gun control” — Vox. June 3, 2022.

“Blaming Chesa Boudin for Crime is Empirically Wrong” — Mother Jones. May 26, 2022.

“The People vs. Chesa Boudin” — The Atlantic. May 19, 2022.

“Murders Spiked in 2020. How Will That Change The Politics of Crime?” — FiveThirtyEight. October 6, 2021.

“Murders are spiking. Police should be part of the solution.” — Vox. September 27, 2021.

“It’s Time for a New Crime Bill” — Slate. July 8, 2021.

“Promising Crime Solutions are Being Undermined by Flawed Federal Ratings, Researchers Say” — The Trace. March 19, 2021.

“Law and order and data” — Chicago Booth Review. March 1, 2021.

“For Women in Economics, the Hostility is Out in the Open” — New York Times. February 23, 2021.

“Where is Aldine gunfire coming from? This program is trying to find out” — Houston Chronicle. January 11, 2021.

“The first millennials turn 40 on Jan. 1. That’s old enough to sue for age discrimination” — Washington Post. December 29, 2020.

“Roundtable Discussions: Understanding the Barriers to Police Accountability to Achieve True Policing Reform” — Arnold Ventures. December 21, 2020.

“How to approach networking, with Jennifer Doleac” — The Hidden Curriculum podcast. December 8, 2020.

“Is New York City Over?” -— Freakonomics podcast. October 8, 2020.

“Trump says murders are up in Democrat-run cities. They’re up in Republican-run cities, too” — Vox. September 29, 2020.

“Jacksonville prosecutors will seek longer sentences for felony gun charges. Will it stop crime?” — Florida Times-Union. September 11, 2020.

“Jennifer Doleac on how to prevent crime without police and prisons” — 80,000 Hours podcast. July 31, 2020.

“The evidence on crime and policing” — The Weeds. July 24, 2020.

“It’s Been ‘Such a Weird Year.’ That’s Also Reflected in Crime Statistics” — New York Times. July 6, 2020.

“The Academic Whose Podcast Is Trying to Change the Law” — Timber Media. June 30, 2020.

“Is Police Reform A Fundamentally Flawed Idea?” — FiveThirtyEight. June 22, 2020.

“Ex-Cons Confront Labor Market That’s Likely to Leave Them Behind” — Bloomberg. June 18, 2020.

“Who Pays For The Police?” — NPR’s The Indicator. June 16, 2020.

“Fixing the Police” — The Weeds. June 16, 2020.

“How to Prevent Another Great Depression” — Freakonomics podcast. June 10, 2020.

“Reforming the Police ft. Jennifer Doleac, Jamein Cunningham & Bocar Ba” — The Neoliberal Podcast. June 9, 2020.

“8 Can’t Wait, explained” — Vox. June 5, 2020.

“Which Jobs Will Come Back, and When?” — Freakonomics podcast. June 3, 2020.

“Do Algorithms Make Sentencing Fairer?” — Slate’s What Next: TBD podcast. January 3, 2020.

“Algorithms were supposed to make Virginia judges fairer. What happened was far more complicated” — The Washington Post. November 19, 2019.

“Do DNA Databases Make Would-Be Criminals Think Twice?” — Undark Magazine. September 23, 2019.

“Criminal Justice featuring Dr. Jennifer Doleac” — The Neoliberal Podcast. September 16, 2019.

“Jennifer Doleac on Crime” — EconTalk podcast. January 21, 2019.

“Female Economists Push Their Field Toward a #MeToo Reckoning” — New York Times. January 10, 2019.

“Twelve Leading Economists on the Research that Shaped Our World in 2018” — Quartz. December 28, 2018.

“Friends Of The Indicator, Pt 2” — NPR’s The Indicator. December 21, 2018.

“How the stress of state testing might make it harder for some students to show what they know” — Chalkbeat. December 13, 2018.

“The Problem With The Pink Tax” — NPR’s The Indicator. November 13, 2018.

“Life, Death And The Lazarus Drug: Confronting America’s Opioid Crisis” — NPR’s Hidden Brain. October 29, 2018.

“A Rise in Murder? Let’s Talk About the Weather” — New York Times. September 21, 2018.

“Low unemployment means a criminal record is less of a hassle” — PBS Newshour. September 6, 2018.

“From Prison To The Workforce” — NPR’s The Indicator. August 14, 2018.

“Less supervision of released prisoners gives better results” — John Howard Society. July 16, 2018.

“How to Cut Crime and End America’s Mass Incarceration” — Bloomberg. June 27, 2018.

“Fighting Death by Gunshot” — New York Times. March 20, 2018.

“Why a Study on Opioids Ignited a Twitter Firestorm” — The Atlantic. March 14, 2018.

“In San Antonio, body worn cameras on police appear to be cutting complaints” — Houston Chronicle. February 19, 2018.

“If a Law Bars Asking Your Past Salary, Does it Help or Hurt?” — New York Times. February 16, 2018.

“Can Washington Be Automated?” — Politico. January/February 2018.

“To deter criminals, expand DNA databases instead of prisons” — The Washington Post. December 19, 2017.

“Austin votes to end its youth curfew amid racial bias concerns” — The Guardian. September 29, 2017.

“‘Ban the Box’ policies hurt black applicants” — Quartz. July 24, 2017.

“Gunshots or Fireworks? How Chicago Cops Know” — WBEZ Chicago. June 30, 2017.

“Regulations on Background Checks Would Only Hurt Black Workers” — National Review. October 18, 2016.

“‘Ban the Box’ Laws May Worsen Hiring Discrimination, New Research Finds” — Wall Street Journal. October 3, 2016.

“For Some, ‘Ban-the-Box’ Laws Are Making It Harder to Get a Job” — Governing. October 2016.

“A new idea to close the gender wage gap probably won’t work — and might backfire” — The Washington Post, September 1, 2016.

“‘Ban the Box’ Doesn’t Work” — The American Interest. August 31, 2016.

“Pandora’s box: Allowing ex-cons to hide their criminal histories increases racial inequality” — The Economist. August 13, 2016.

“Ban on criminal history question for US job seekers reveals deeper issue: racism” — The Guardian. August 13, 2016.

“Study: ‘Ban the Box’ Can Increase Racial Discrimination” — Weekly Standard. June 21, 2016.

“A big bipartisan criminal justice reform may have a very bad unintended consequence” — Vox. June 3, 2016.

“Do Youth Curfews Reduce Crime?” — Wall Street Journal, April 24, 2016.

“This may be the best way to measure gun violence in America” — The Washington Post. April 23, 2016.

“When Whites Just Don’t Get It, Part 6” — New York Times. April 2, 2016.

“How To Make Sense Of Conflicting, Confusing And Misleading Crime Statistics” — FiveThirtyEight. January 8, 2016.

“Study: Curfews cause more gun violence” — Vox. January 3, 2016.

“Do Juvenile Curfews Cut Crime?” — Newsweek. January 2, 2016.

“Paper cuts: Do ambient light levels influence criminal activities?” — Significance Magazine. November 17, 2015.

“Why daylight saving time could be even more awesome than you think” — The Washington Post. October 29, 2015.

“It’s time to make daylight saving time year-round” — Vox. March 6, 2015.

“Daylight Savings Time: 7 Surprising Things You May Not Know” — National Geographic. March 6, 2015.

“Study Sheds Light On Criminal Activity During Time Change” — NPR’s Hidden Brain. November 4, 2013.

“Study: Online seller’s race changes purchase price” — USA Today. July 30, 2010.

“The Visible Hand” — Freakonomics blog. June 1, 2010.