Articles
Riesch, Nefara, Michael Zanger-Tishler, Kalisha Dessources Figures and Joscha Legewie (equal first authorship). “School discipline policies and educational outcomes for urban youth: The consequences of school policing and the Impact Schools initiative on academic achievement.” Conditionally accepted, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.
Neil, Roland and Michael Zanger-Tishler (equal authorship). "Algorithmic bias in criminal risk assessment: The consequences of racial differences in arrest as a measure of crime." Forthcoming, Annual Review of Criminology.
Zanger-Tishler, Michael, Julian Nyarko, and Sharad Goel. "Risk scores, label bias, and everything but the kitchen sink." Science Advances 10, no. 13 (2024): eadi8411. [ Appendix - Code - Summary (from Stanford HAI)]
Zanger-Tishler, Michael. "Ethnoracial classification and the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics: constructing Palestinian criminality in Israel (1990–2019)." Ethnic and Racial Studies 45, no. 15 (2022): 2867-2891.
Weaver, Vesla M., Andrew Papachristos, and Michael Zanger-Tishler. "The great decoupling: The disconnection between criminal offending and experience of arrest across two cohorts." RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 5, no. 1 (2019): 89-123.
Book Reviews
Working Papers
Zanger-Tishler, Michael. "Rethinking Race Statistics in France-Thomas Piketty, Mesurer le racisme, vaincre les discriminations (Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 2022, 72 p.)." European Journal of Sociology/Archives Européennes de Sociologie (2025): 1-6.
Zanger-Tishler, Michael, Robert Sampson, Clair Uding, and David Weisburd. "Disentangling legal cynicism and contacting the police: A mechanism based approach."
Graef, Lindsay and Michael Zanger-Tishler (equal authorship). "Bench warrants as an institutional response to failure to appear: The implications for pretrial risk assessment" [Theodore Eisenberg Poster Prize Honorable Mention, 2023 Conference on Empirical Legal Studies]
Zanger-Tishler, Michael. "Visual identifiability and its consequences: A study of American Jews and
antisemitism.”
Zanger-Tishler, Michael. "State Data and the Production of Quantitative Knowledge: The Case of Police Stops in the United States and France.”
Work in Progress
"How the shift toward presumptive nonprosecution of misdemeanor offenses affects racial disparities in current and future penal system outcomes in two jurisdictions." (with Sandra Smith, Felix Owusu, and Pari Bishen). [Pre-analysis Plan]