An alternative test of racial prejudice in motor vehicle searches
Subtitle: theory and evidence
By: Shamena Anwar, Hanming Fang.
Contributors: Fang, Hanming.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 11264; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 11264.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Racial profiling in law enforcement -- Mathematical models.; Searches and seizures -- Mathematical models.; Racial profiling in law enforcement -- Florida.; Searches and seizures -- Florida.
Description: "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"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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