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An Alternative Test of Racial Prejudice in Motor Vehicle Searches: Theory and Evidence / Shamena Anwar, Hanming Fang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anwar, Shamena.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w11264.
- NBER working paper series no. w11264
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2005.
- Summary:
- We propose a simple model of trooper behavior to design empirical tests for whether troopers of different races are monolithic in their search behavior, and whether they exhibit relative racial prejudice in motor vehicle searches. Our test of relative racial prejudice provides a partial solution to the well-known infra-marginality and omitted variables problems associated with outcome tests. When applied to a unique data set from Florida, our tests soundly reject the hypothesis that troopers of different races are monolithic in their search behavior, but fail to reject the hypothesis that troopers of different races do not exhibit relative racial prejudice.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- April 2005.
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