All Outputs (2)

The Franchise, Policing, and Race: Evidence from Arrests Data and the Voting Rights Act (2025)
Journal Article
Facchini, G., Knight, B., & Testa, C. (in press). The Franchise, Policing, and Race: Evidence from Arrests Data and the Voting Rights Act. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics,

This paper investigates the relationship between the franchise and law enforcement practices using differential exposure to the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965. We find that, following the VRA, black arrest rates in counties that both had larger shar... Read More about The Franchise, Policing, and Race: Evidence from Arrests Data and the Voting Rights Act.

Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act (2025)
Journal Article
Bernini, A., Facchini, G., Tabellini, M., & Testa, C. (in press). Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act. Journal of Political Economy,

How did southern whites respond to the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA)? Leveraging newly digitized data on county-level voter registration by race between 1956 and 1980, and exploiting pre-determined variation in exposure to the federal intervention, we... Read More about Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act.