Sorensen, Todd; Sarnikar, Supriya; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - In: American Economic Review 102 (2012) 3, pp. 256-60
Using data from the United States Sentencing Commission, we examine how judicial biases may have influenced sentences during the era of the Federal criminal sentencing guidelines. Our utility maximization model of judicial sentencing preferences leads to a partially censored ordered probit model...