Debiasing Law Enforcement Officers: Evidence from an Expressive Arts Intervention in India -- by Sofia Amaral, Girija Borker, Nishith Prakash, María Micaela Sviatschi

We thank Ritam Chaurey, Thomas Fujiwara, Dan Keniston, Deepak Saraswat and participants at seminars at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Indian Statistical Institute Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Johns Hopkins University, the LEAP Conference (2026), National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute, Economics of Crime (2026), Northeastern University, Northwestern University, University of Notre Dame, the NOVAFRICA Conference on Economic Development (2026), Princeton University, Sciences Po, and the Virtual Development Economics Series. We are deeply grateful to the following individuals and organizations whose support and guidance were indispensable to this project. From the Indian Administrative Service (IAS): Rahul Singh and Amir Subhani. From the Indian Police Service (IPS): K. Suhita Anupam, Kumar Ashish, Rajwinder Singh Bhatti, Manavjeet Dhillon, Amit Kumar Jain, Rakesh Kumar, Vinay Kumar, Ashok Mishra, Kantesh Kumar Mishra, Ranjit Mishra, Gupteshwar Pandey, Alok Raj, Har Kishore Rai, Rajyavardhan Sharma, Sanjiv Kumar Singhal, Praveen Vashishta, Anil Kishore Yadav, and Pramod Kumar Yadav. We also thank Kavita Arora, Durba Ghose (from Mittika), Karla Hoff, Zubair Idrisi, Jaya Iyer, and Vandana Kumari Pandey, and DAI Research and Advisory Services (Implementing Partner). We thank Dibyajyoti Basak, Shubhro Bhattacharya, Asmi Khushi, Neil Oommen, and Aditi Priya for their excellent research assistance, and Bhuvnesh Bajpai, Deepa Imley, Sitaram Mukherjee, Anup Roy, Manas Samanta, and all the field staff at DAI Research and Advisory Services for their invaluable contributions to data collection. This work was supported by the ifo Institute, International Growth Center, Fund for Innovation in Development (FID), J-PAL Crime and Violence Initiative, J-PAL Gender Initiative, The World Bank, and Princeton University. The views expressed here do not necessarily represent the views of our partners. The study was registered with the AEA RCT Registry (ID AEARCTR-0013270), and ethics approval was obtained from Princeton University and DAI Research and Advisory Services Private Limited. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.