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38 J. L. Econ. & Org. 1 (2022)

handle is hein.journals/jleo38 and id is 1 raw text is: JLEO V38, N1 1 Collective Bargaining Rights and Police Misconduct: Evidence from Florida Dhammika Dharmapala* University of Chicago Law School Richard H. McAdams University of Chicago Law School John Rappaport University of Chicago Law School We provide quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of law enforcement collective bargaining rights on violent incidents of misconduct. Our empirical strategy exploits a 2003 Florida Supreme Court decision (Williams) conferring collective bargaining rights on sheriffs' deputies. Using a state administrative database of moral character violations over 1996-2015, we implement a difference-in-difference approach in which police departments (PDs; which were unaffected by Williams) serve as a control group for sheriffs' offices (SOs). *University of Chicago Law School, 1111 E. 60th St. Chicago, IL 60637, USA. E-mail: dharmap@uchicago.edu We thank the Editor (Jonah Gelbach), three anonymous referees, David Agrawal, Andrea Chandrasekher, Adam Chilton, Greg DeAngelo, Jeff Grogger, Sara Heller, William Hubbard, Vic Khanna, Anup Malani, Tom Miles, Jason Oh, Kyle Rozema, Kim Rueben, David Schwartz, Joanna Schwartz, Sonja Starr, Juan Carlos Suarez-Serrato, Andrew Verstein, Laura Weinrib, and Eric Zwick, participants at workshops at the University of Chicago, Duke University, the University of Kentucky, the University of Michigan, Notre Dame, Northwestern University, and Texas A&M University, and conference participants at the American Law and Economics Association, the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, the Chicago/LSE[AQ] Conference on the Economics of Crime and Justice, and the Law and Society Association for helpful comments and suggestions. We are especially grateful to Morgen Miller and Rafeh Qureshi of the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School for their outstanding work in con- structing the dataset used in this article, and Whittney Barth, Jeremy Chen, Alan Hassler, Isabella Nascimento, Eileen Prescott, Shreya Minama Reddy, and Christopher Walling for excellent research assistance. We also thank Terry Baker and Stacey Price of the FDLE for providing the data and for patiently answering our questions. Margaret Schilt of the University of Chicago Law Library kindly helped us with background research on Florida law enforcement agencies. Dharmapala acknowledges the financial support of the Lee and Brena Freeman Faculty Research Fund at the University of Chicago Law School. McAdams acknowledges the Robert B. Roesing Faculty Fund. Rappaport acknowledges the Darelyn A. and Richard C. Reed Memorial Fund. Any remaining errors or omissions are, of course, our own. The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Vol. 38, No. 1 doi:10.1093/jleo/ewaa025 Advance Access Publication December 28, 2020 © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Yale University. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creative- commons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.