ONGOING RESEARCH
Inequality and Policing
Joint with M. Keith Chen, Elicia John, Emily Owens, and Yilin Zhuo, "Smartphone Data Reveal Neighborhood-Level Racial Disparities in Police Presence," equal authorship, https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.12491 accepted, Review of Economics and Statistics
Research on policing has focused on documented actions such as stops and arrests—less is known about patrols and presence. We map the neighborhood movement of nearly ten thousand officers across 21 of America’s largest cities using anonymized smartphone data. Police spend 0.36% more time in neighborhoods for each percentage point increase in Black residents. This neighborhood-level disparity persists after controlling for density, socioeconomic, and crime-driven demand for policing, and may be lower in cities with more Black police supervisors (but not officers). Patterns of police presence statistically explain 57% of the higher arrest rate in more Black neighborhoods.
David Dolifka, Katherine L. Christensen, and Franklin Shaddy, "Created Equal: Shifting Preference for Redistribution," revise and resubmit, Social Psychological and Personality Science
Christensen, Katherine L., Broderick L. Turner, and Rajesh Bagchi, "Seeing Race: What Was, What Will Be, What Should Be," under review
The Role of Heritage and Connection Across Time in Consumer Outcomes
Christensen, Katherine L. and Suzanne B. Shu, "The Role of Heritage Connection in Consumer Valuation," https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/JZUJ3WMRFJ2AKFDNMKYP/full, in press, Journal of Marketing Research
Christensen, Katherine L., Hal E. Hershfield, and Sam B. Maglio, "Back to the Present: How Mental Time Travel Affects Thoughts and Behavior," preparing for 3rd round review at Journal of Consumer Research
Christensen, Katherine L. and Ed O'Brien, "Human Nature: How Time and Agency Shape Value," preparing for submission
The Role of Social Connection in Medical Decision-Making
Zheng, Justin C., Katherine L. Christensen, Richard K. Leuchter, Maria Han, Sitaram Vangala, and Daniel Croymans, "The Role of Testing Availability on Intentions to Isolate during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Randomized Trial," https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8809585/, PLOS ONE
Christensen, Katherine L., Hal E. Hershfield, Mikella Green, and Gregory Samanez-Larkin, "Solve It With a Smile: The Role of Human Connection in Medication Adherence," grant from the Price Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation