Greg Lanzalotto

Greg Lanzalotto
  • Doctoral Candidate

Contact Information

  • office Address:

    3730 Walnut Street
    527.6 Jon M Hunstman Hall
    Philadelphia, PA 19104

Research Interests: Organizational control, discipline, and legitimacy in high-discretion work; policing, monitoring technologies, and causal inference.

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Overview

Greg Lanzalotto is a PhD candidate in the Operations, Information, and Decisions Department at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His research examines how organizations monitor and discipline employees in high-discretion occupations where output is difficult to measure and misconduct is costly. His current projects study the effects of officer discipline on police behavior, the limits of body-worn camera auditing in detecting and deterring misconduct, and the reliability of administrative data on race and use of force. More broadly, his work explores questions of organizational control, incentives, and legitimacy in the context of policing.

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