معرفی
Bocar A Ba is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Duke University's Trinity College of Arts & Sciences since 2021, with a visiting research scholar appointment at Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs (2025-2026). Holding a PhD from The University of Chicago (2018), his work bridges economics with political science and criminal justice studies.
- Education: Ph.D. in Economics, The University of Chicago (2018)
Research Focus: Analyzes policing practices, media narratives around police violence, temperature-aggression dynamics, and institutional racism. His work employs advanced econometric methods and large-scale data analysis.
Article Trends: Recent publications examine
- media syntactic patterns obscuring police accountability
- political ideology distribution in police forces
- climate impacts on police-civilian violence
- racial disparities in police recognition systems
- peer effects on police force use
Scientific Recognition: Selected for Princeton's Visiting Research Scholar program in public policy analysis.
Grants Received:
- National Science Foundation (2023-2026): Social Movements and Corporate Opportunities
- Arnold Ventures (2024-2025): Alternatives to Policing research
- United States Naval Academy (2022-2023): Policing and Criminal Justice impacts
Teaching: Instructs courses on criminal justice economics and advanced topics in economics.
