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How Frontline Supervisors Shape Priorities: Evidence from Police Lieutenants / Matthew Gudgeon, Andrew Jordan, Taeho Kim.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gudgeon, Matthew.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w35306.
- NBER working paper series no. w35306
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2026.
- Summary:
- We study how frontline supervisors shape outcomes in public organizations with competing objectives and limited monitoring. We examine lieutenants in the Chicago Police Department, exploiting its rotational operations calendar for identification. We document dispersion in lieutenant fixed effects on team arrests and find race to be a key predictor. We then compare days Black and Hispanic lieutenants are predicted on duty to days supervised by white lieutenants. Teams under Black and Hispanic lieutenants make fewer low-level arrests while improving 911 call dispatch time. Lieutenants shape effort allocation by differentially granting overtime and awards for serious rather than discretionary arrests.
- Notes:
- June 2026.
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