全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Using Hit Rate Tests to Test for Racial Bias in Law Enforcement: Vehicle Searches in Wichita

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w10947
来源ID	Working Paper 10947
	Using Hit Rate Tests to Test for Racial Bias in Law Enforcement: Vehicle Searches in Wichita
	Nicola Persico; Petra Todd
发表日期	2004-12-06
出版年	2004
语种	英语
摘要	This paper considers the use of outcomes-based tests for detecting racial bias in the context of police searches of motor vehicles. It shows that the test proposed in Knowles, Persico and Todd (2001) can also be applied in a more general environment where police officers are heterogenous in their tastes for discrimination and in their costs of search and motorists are heterogeneous in their benefits and costs from criminal behavior. We characterize the police and motorist decision problems in a game theoretic framework and establish properties of the equilibrium. We also extend the model to the case where drivers' characteristics are mutable in the sense that drivers can adapt some of their characteristics to reduce the probability of being monitored. After developing the theory that justifies the application of outcomes-based tests, we apply the tests to data on police searches of motor vehicles gathered by the Wichita Police deparment. The empirical findings are consistent with the notion that police in Wichita choose their search strategies to maximize successful searches, and not out of racial bias.
主题	Labor Economics ; Labor Discrimination ; Other ; Law and Economics
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w10947
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/568582
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Nicola Persico,Petra Todd. Using Hit Rate Tests to Test for Racial Bias in Law Enforcement: Vehicle Searches in Wichita. 2004.

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