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Passenger Profiling, Imperfect Screening, and Airport Security
Persico, Nicola; Todd, Petra - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2005
We present a theoretical model of airport searches. The model extends previous work in the area in that detection conditional on search is imperfect. The hit rates tests for racial bias developed in Knowles, Persico, and Todd (2001) is shown to apply even in the presence of imperfections in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005109587
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Using Hit Rates to Test for Racial Bias in Law Enforcement: Vehicle Searches in Wichita
Persico, Nicola; Todd, Petra - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2005
This paper considers the use of outcomes-based tests for detecting racial bias in the context of police searches of … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005020648