Dharmapala, Dhammika; Huq, Aziz Z. - 2024 - Revised version: July 2024
U.S. law requires the Attorney General to collect data on hate crime victimization from states and municipalities, but … considerably across jurisdictions. This paper addresses the ensuing “missing data” problem by imputing unreported hate crimes using … Google search rates for a racial epithet. As a benchmark of accurate hate crime data, it uses two alternative definitions of …