Academic
C.V.
My current c.v. in pdf format.
Site
My current academic site is at scholar.harvard.edu/owasow.
Working Papers:
- “How Are Vitamin D and Race Associated with Mortality?”
- “Can Tweets Kill A Movie? An Empirical Evaluation of the “‘Bruno’ Effect”
- “Why Does Integration Happen? Reconsidering the Schelling Segregation Model.”
- “Why Red-light Districts? Prostitution and Municipal State Formation, 1822-1874.”
- “What Effect Does Police Response Have on Urban Riot Severity?”
- “Did the Rise of Crack Cocaine Increase Dropouts?”
- “It’s Not about Race at K: Analyzing the Evolution of the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Six Years of School” (with Elena Llaudet).
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at Princeton. I received a PhD in African American Studies, an MA in Government and an MA in Statistics from Harvard University. Previously, I co-founded BlackPlanet.com and the Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School. I can be reached at owasow -at- gmail -dot- com.