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A Test of Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011

We propose a test of bias based upon patterns of judicial errors. We model the trial court as minimizing a weighted sum … of type I and II errors. We define racial bias a situation where the weight depends on defendant/victim race. If the …

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Racial Bias and In-Group Bias in Judicial Decisions : Evidence from Virtual Reality Courtrooms

Bielen, Samantha - 2018

towards defendants of their own race during the guilt-innocence decision. In the sentencing phase, we find in-group bias in … identifies such opposing effects of bias within the same decision sequence. Regarding overall racial bias, we document that … the police have an impact on their judicial decisions, suggesting that the source of the bias may be deep-rooted. Merging …

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Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions

Cohen, Alma - 2018

This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to racial and gender disparities in sentencing using data on over 500,000 federal defendants linked to sentencing judge. Exploiting random case assignment, we find that Republican-appointed judges sentence black defendants...

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Do Field Experiments on Labor and Housing Markets Overstate Discrimination? a Re-Examination of the Evidence

Neumark, David - 2016

that have sufficient information to correct for this bias. For the housing market studies, the estimated effect of …

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What Do Wage Differentials Tell Us About Labor Market Discrimination?

O'Neill, June; O'Neill, Dave M. - 2021

We examine the extent to which non-discriminatory factors can explain observed wage gaps between racial and ethnic minorities and whites, and between women and men. In general we find that differences in productivity-related factors account for most of the between group wage differences in the...

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Complementary Bias : A Model of Two-Sided Statistical Discrimination

Craig, Ashley - 2017

We introduce a model of two-sided statistical discrimination in which worker and firm beliefs are complementary. Firms try to infer whether workers have made investments required for them to be productive, and simultaneously, workers try to deduce whether firms have made investments necessary...

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The Impact of Jury Race in Criminal Trials

Anwar, Shamena - 2010

This paper examines the impact of jury racial composition on trial outcomes using a unique data set of felony trials in Florida between 2000 and 2010. We utilize a research design that exploits day-to-day variation in the composition of the jury pool to isolate quasi-random variation in the...

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Testing for Racial Prejudice in the Parole Board Release Process : Theory and Evidence

Anwar, Shamena - 2012

We develop a model of a Parole Board contemplating whether to grant parole release to a prisoner who has finished serving their minimum sentence. The model implies a simple outcome test for racial prejudice robust to the inframarginality problem. Our test involves running simple regressions of...

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From Brown to Busing

Cascio, Elizabeth - 2007

An extensive literature debates the causes and consequences of the desegregation of American schools in the twentieth century. Despite the social importance of desegregation and the magnitude of the literature, we have lacked a comprehensive accounting of the basic facts of school desegregation....

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Discrimination at the Intersection of Age, Race, and Gender : Evidence from a Lab-in-The-Field Experiment

Lahey, Joanna - 2018

We use a laboratory experiment with randomized resumes and eyetracking to explore the effects of race on employment discrimination over the lifecycle. We show race discrimination against prime-age black job applicants that diminishes into middle age before re-emerging for older applicants....

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