Michael Poyker
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America’s Captive Labor
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for Project
Syndicate,
July 11, 2019
Summaries
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Regime Stability and the Persistence of Traditional Practices
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in VoxDev
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October 4, 2019
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The Employment Effects of a Gender-Specific Minimum Wage
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in ProMarket,
August 30, 2019
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How Private Prisons Affect Sentencing
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in Vox-EU
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August 6, 2019
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The Impact of Judicial Elections on Criminal Sentencing
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in Vox-EU
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June 26, 2019
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State Capacity and Demand for Identity: Evidence from Political Instability in Mali
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in INET
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June 26, 2019
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Economic Consequences of the U.S. Convict Labor System
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in INET
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March 7, 2019
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The Impact of Convict Labour on Local Wages and Employment
: Evidence from Modern American History
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in EHS
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April 3, 2018
Research Featured in Media
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Free Expression on the Margins. The Kremlin and the Media
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Eurozine, October 18, 2019
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How Judicial Elections Contribute to Mass Incarceration
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Facing South, July 31, 2019
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How Private Prisons Affect Sentencing
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National Public Radio, aired on Morning Edition, June 28, 2019
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Narrowing a Theory on Why Judges Get Tough before Elections
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Anderson Review, June 26, 2019
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Judges Influenced by Fox News Give Harsher Sentences: Paper
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the Crime Report, June 7, 2019
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Trump's Tariff Triple Option
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the Weeds, Vox's podcast, June 4, 2019
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How Fox News is Influencing US Judges
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the New Statesman, in "The Brexit Earthquake" issue, May 24, 2019
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Vote and be Hanged
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the
Economist, pp. 24-25, April 27, 2019
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Je billiger der Knast, desto länger die Haft
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Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung, p. 18, April 14, 2019 (in German)
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Elections Make Judges Less ‘Tough-on-Crime’ Than Previously Thought
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Washington Free Beacon, April 8, 2019
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Do Private Prisons Lead to Higher Incarceration Rates?
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Anderson Review, March 13, 2019
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Capital and Punishment
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the Economist, p. 32, April 14, 2018
Research Featured in OpEds and Blogs
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Exposure to Conservative News Causes Judges to Impose Harsher Criminal Sentences
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ETH Zürich
Center for Law & Economics
vlog, July 4, 2019
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Convict Labour in Modern American History
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The Long Run the Economic History Society blog, June 4, 2019
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Private Prisons Are a Failed Experiment
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by Noah Smith for Bloomberg Opinion, April 1, 2019
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Can American Democracy Come Back?
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by Joseph E. Stiglitz for Project Syndicate, Nov 6, 2018
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Prison Labor: a Boon to Greater Patenting?
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by Neil Wilkof for IPKat, June 10, 2018
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The New Autocracy: Information, Politics, and Policy in Putin's Russia
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by
J. W. Peterson for the Choice Reviews
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June 2018, vol. 55 no. 10
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How Putin’s Regime is both Authoritarian and Incompetent
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by Daniel Treisman for the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, March 14, 2018
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Главное о России. Политология
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by Boris Grozovsky for IQ.HSE.RU, August 22, 2017 (in Russian)
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What's the Latest Economic Research on Africa?
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World Bank blog, March 24, 2016
I made this photo near CMU in April 2019.
Ironically, I was presenting paper on how elected judges cater to changing voter preferences due to exposure to `tough-on-crime' rhetoric of Fox News that day.
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