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Racial Bias in Motor Vehicle Searches : Theory and Evidence
Knowles, John; Persico, Nicola G.; Todd, Petra - 2021
African- American motorist in the United States are much more likely than white motorists to have their car searched by police checking for illegal drugs and other contraband. The courts are faced with the task of deciding on the basis of traffic-search data whether police behavior reflects a...
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Race Matters : Income Shares, Income Inequality, and Income Mobility for All U.S. Races
Akee, Randall - 2017
This paper presents income shares, income inequality, and income immobility measures for all race and ethnic groups in … the United States using the universe of U.S. tax returns matched at the individual level to U.S. Census race data for 2000 …–2014. Whites and Asians have a disproportionately large share of income in top quantiles. Income for most race groups ranges …
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Historical Perspectives on Racial Differences in Schooling in the United States
Collins, William J.; Margo, Robert A. - 2021
African-Americans entered the post-Civil War era with extremely low levels of exposure to schooling. Relying primarily on micro-level census data, we describe racial differences in literacy rates, school attendance, years of educational attainment, age-in-grade distributions, spending per pupil,...
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The Fluidity of Race : “Passing” in the United States, 1880-1940
Nix, Emily - 2015
whites relative to blacks. As such, endogenous race is likely to be a quantitatively important phenomenon …
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A Test of Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
of type I and II errors. We define racial bias a situation where the weight depends on defendant/victim race. If the … court is unbiased, the error rate should be independent of the combination defendant/victim race. We test this prediction …
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Does “Ban the Box” Help or Hurt Low-Skilled Workers? Statistical Discrimination and Employment Outcomes When Criminal Histories are Hidden
Doleac, Jennifer L. - 2016
Jurisdictions across the United States have adopted "ban the box" (BTB) policies preventing employers from conducting criminal background checks until late in the job application process. Their goal is to improve employment outcomes for those with criminal records, with a secondary goal of...
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Early Life Environment and Racial Inequality in Education and Earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth Y. - 2014
insensitive to adjustments for employment selection, as well as time and age effects that vary by race and state-of-residence. The …
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Testing for Racial Prejudice in the Parole Board Release Process : Theory and Evidence
Anwar, Shamena - 2012
maximum sentences and separately by race. If the coefficient estimates on the exposure time term differ by race, then there is …
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Racial Residential Segregation in American Cities
Boustan, Leah Platt - 2013
This chapter examines the causes and consequences of black-white residential segregation in the United States. Segregation can arise through black self-segregation, collective action to exclude blacks from white neighborhoods, or individual mobility of white households. Historically, whites used...
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Spatial Mismatch or Racial Mismatch?
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2007
lines but racial lines as well, by estimating the effects of job density measures that are disaggregated by race. We find …
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