全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): A New Look at Racial Profiling: Evidence from the Boston Police Department

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w10634
来源ID	Working Paper 10634
	A New Look at Racial Profiling: Evidence from the Boston Police Department
	Kate L. Antonovics; Brian G. Knight
发表日期	2004-07-19
出版年	2004
语种	英语
摘要	This paper provides new evidence on the role of preference-based versus statistical discrimination in racial profiling using a unique data set that includes the race of both the driver and the officer. We first generalize the model presented in Knowles, Persico and Todd (2001) and show that the fundamental insight that allows them to distinguish between statistical discrimination and preference-based discrimination depends on the specialized shapes of the best response functions in their model. Thus, the test that they employ is not robust to a range of alternative modeling assumptions. However, we also show that if statistical discrimination alone explains differences in the rate at which the vehicles of drivers of different races are searched, then search decisions should be independent of officer race. We then test this prediction using data from the Boston Police Department. Consistent with preference-based discrimination, our baseline results demonstrate that officers are more likely to conduct a search if the race of the officer differs from the race of the driver. We then investigate and rule out two alternative explanations for our findings: race-based informational asymmetries between officers and the assignment of officers to neighborhoods.
主题	Other ; Law and Economics ; Public Economics
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w10634
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/568263
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kate L. Antonovics,Brian G. Knight. A New Look at Racial Profiling: Evidence from the Boston Police Department. 2004.

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