Articles
Zanger-Tishler, Michael, Robert Sampson, Clair Uding, and David Weisburd. Forthcoming. "Reconceptualizing the Relationship between Legal Cynicism and Contacting the Police." Social Problems.
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Zanger-Tishler, Michael and Simone Zhang (equal authorship). 2025. "The Sociology of Technical Choices in Predictive AI." Social Science Computer Review. ​
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Riesch, Nefara, Michael Zanger-Tishler, Kalisha Dessources Figures and Joscha Legewie (equal first authorship). 2025. “School discipline policies and educational outcomes for urban youth: The consequences of school policing and the Impact Schools initiative on academic achievement.” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.
Neil, Roland and Michael Zanger-Tishler (equal authorship). 2025. "Algorithmic bias in criminal risk assessment: The consequences of racial differences in arrest as a measure of crime." Annual Review of Criminology.
Zanger-Tishler, Michael, Julian Nyarko, and Sharad Goel. 2024. "Risk scores, label bias, and everything but the kitchen sink." Science Advances 10(13): eadi8411. [ Appendix - Code - Summary (from Stanford HAI)]
Zanger-Tishler, Michael. 2022. "Ethnoracial classification and the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics: constructing Palestinian criminality in Israel (1990–2019)." Ethnic and Racial Studies 45(15): 2867-2891.
Weaver, Vesla M., Andrew Papachristos, and Michael Zanger-Tishler. 2019. "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(1): 89-123.
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.
Book Reviews
Under Review
Zanger-Tishler, Michael. "State Data and the Production of Quantitative Knowledge: The Case of Police Stops in the United States and France.” R&R at the American Journal of Sociology.
Graef, Lindsay and Michael Zanger-Tishler (equal authorship). "Bench warrants as an institutional response to failure to appear: The implications for pretrial risk assessment." R&R at the Journal of Legal Studies. [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.” [2025 Sociology of the Body and Embodiment Graduate Student Paper Award]
Working Papers
Zanger-Tishler, Michael. “A Theory of State Organizations and Informational Capital."
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Zanger-Tishler, Michael. “The Choice of (Selective) Ignorance: Ethnoracial Categories and their Presentation in Israeli State Statistics (1948-1964).”
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Liu, Lydia T., Inioluwa Deborah Raji, Angela Zhou, Luke Guerdan, Jessica Hullman, Daniel Malinsky, Bryan Wilder, Simone Zhang, Hammaad Adam, Amanda Coston, Ben Laufer, Ezinne Nwankwo, Michael Zanger-Tishler, Eli Ben-Michael, Solon Barocas, Avi Feller, Marissa Gerchick, Talia Gillis, Shion Guha, Daniel Ho, Lily Hu, Kosuke Imai, Sayash Kapoor, Joshua Loftus, Razieh Nabi, Arvind Narayanan, Ben Recht, Juan
Carlos Perdomo, Matthew Salganik, Mark Sendak, Alexander Tolbert, Berk Ustun, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Angelina Wang, and Ashia Wilson. “Bridging Prediction and Intervention Problems in Social Systems.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05216
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]
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Empire and Incarceration: Incarceration Rates Over Time in 20th Century Colonial Empires (with Rachel Rood-Ojalvo).
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The Promise of Citizenship: Citizenship and Migration Patterns among North African Jews (with Yael Berda).
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