Abrams, David S.; Bertrand, Marianne; Mullainathan, Sendhil - In: The Journal of Legal Studies 41 (2012) 2, pp. 347-347
Are minorities treated differently by the legal system? Systematic racial differences in case characteristics, many unobservable, make this a difficult question to answer directly. In this paper, we estimate whether judges differ from each other in how they sentence minorities, avoiding...