Matthew B. Ross Associate Professor ma.ross@northeastern.edu Expertise microeconomics, public and labor economics Matthew B. Ross in the Press Running red lights, speeding, aggressive driving: Can traffic cameras curb the notorious Massachusetts driver? Police departments across the country are also facing staffing shortages, said Matthew Ross, an associate professor at Northeastern University whose research focuses on policing and the criminal justice system. The Tribune For 8 Months, Traffic Enforcement on New Jersey’s Highways Plummeted Asked about the slowdown, leaders of the three labor unions that represent roughly 3,200 sworn State Police officers all pointed to the critical report by Matthew B. Ross, a Northeastern University professor hired in 2021 by a former attorney general to review 6.2 million traffic stops troopers made between 2009 and 2021. WGBH Massachusetts police pull over more minorities than whites, new data shows Matthew Ross, an associate professor of public policy and economics at Northeastern University, who assisted with the study’s analysis and conducted his own meta-analysis, joined All Things Considered host Arun Rath to discuss the findings. What follows is a lightly edited transcript. This Massachusetts police practice skews racial profiling stats Ross, an associate professor at Northeastern University’s School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs and Department of Economics, said the USA TODAY Network’s findings “makes any statistical analysis less likely to find evidence of discrimination even if it exists.” He called that “deeply troubling.” Female scientists don’t get the credit they deserve. A study proves it. “If you’re working on a project that looks like it’s going to be received really well, there’s more jockeying and competition to get on the authorship list — and basically what we find is that in those cases, it actually looks like women are less likely to end up on the authorship list,” said co-author […] Nature.com ‘Ignored and not appreciated’: Women’s research contributions often go unrecognized Measuring what isn’t there, however, is challenging. To overcome this, Matthew Ross, an economist at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and his colleagues used a large data set on almost 10,000 research teams in the United States to investigate who did and did not receive credit for work. Science’s Women Ghostwriters Co-author Matthew Ross, associate professor of economics and public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern University, whose work centers on discrimination, said that the survey revealed in some cases women had stepped back from their work for various reasons and saw a corresponding reduction in credit. Science Women scientists don’t get authorship they should, new study suggests “We really ought to care about attribution,” adds study lead author Matthew Ross, an economist and associate professor at Northeastern University. Matthew B. Ross for Northeastern Global News Integrity of ‘independent’ state traffic stop analysis questioned by Northeastern researcher who made opposite conclusions Integrity of ‘independent’ state traffic stop analysis questioned by Northeastern researcher who made opposite conclusions Researcher Matthew Ross says that researchers contracted by the state did not uniformly follow best practices methodology. Massachusetts police discriminate in traffic stops, previously unreleased data reveals Massachusetts police discriminate in traffic stops, previously unreleased data reveals An analysis of Massachusetts police traffic stop data shows disparities between white and non-white drivers. Connecticut State Police issued 26,000 fake traffic tickets over eight years, according to an audit by a Northeastern researcher Connecticut State Police issued 26,000 fake traffic tickets over eight years, according to an audit by a Northeastern researcher The fake tickets submitted by Connecticut state troopers made them seem more productive and distorted racial profiling data.
Running red lights, speeding, aggressive driving: Can traffic cameras curb the notorious Massachusetts driver? Police departments across the country are also facing staffing shortages, said Matthew Ross, an associate professor at Northeastern University whose research focuses on policing and the criminal justice system.
The Tribune For 8 Months, Traffic Enforcement on New Jersey’s Highways Plummeted Asked about the slowdown, leaders of the three labor unions that represent roughly 3,200 sworn State Police officers all pointed to the critical report by Matthew B. Ross, a Northeastern University professor hired in 2021 by a former attorney general to review 6.2 million traffic stops troopers made between 2009 and 2021.
WGBH Massachusetts police pull over more minorities than whites, new data shows Matthew Ross, an associate professor of public policy and economics at Northeastern University, who assisted with the study’s analysis and conducted his own meta-analysis, joined All Things Considered host Arun Rath to discuss the findings. What follows is a lightly edited transcript.
This Massachusetts police practice skews racial profiling stats Ross, an associate professor at Northeastern University’s School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs and Department of Economics, said the USA TODAY Network’s findings “makes any statistical analysis less likely to find evidence of discrimination even if it exists.” He called that “deeply troubling.”
Female scientists don’t get the credit they deserve. A study proves it. “If you’re working on a project that looks like it’s going to be received really well, there’s more jockeying and competition to get on the authorship list — and basically what we find is that in those cases, it actually looks like women are less likely to end up on the authorship list,” said co-author […]
Nature.com ‘Ignored and not appreciated’: Women’s research contributions often go unrecognized Measuring what isn’t there, however, is challenging. To overcome this, Matthew Ross, an economist at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and his colleagues used a large data set on almost 10,000 research teams in the United States to investigate who did and did not receive credit for work.
Science’s Women Ghostwriters Co-author Matthew Ross, associate professor of economics and public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern University, whose work centers on discrimination, said that the survey revealed in some cases women had stepped back from their work for various reasons and saw a corresponding reduction in credit.
Science Women scientists don’t get authorship they should, new study suggests “We really ought to care about attribution,” adds study lead author Matthew Ross, an economist and associate professor at Northeastern University.