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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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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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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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whites relative to blacks. As such, endogenous race is likely to be a quantitatively important phenomenon …
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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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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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We provide the first analysis of racial in-group bias in Type-I and Type-II errors. Using player-referee matched data from NBA games we show that there is no overall racial bias or in-group bias in foul calls made by referees. Similarly, there is no racial bias or in-group bias in Type-I errors...
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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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When the fraction of minorities in a neighborhood exceeds the tipping point white flight accelerates. I develop a revealed-preference method to estimate the tipping points of 38,000 census tracts and the preferences of households for minority neighbors in the 123 Metropolitan Statistical Areas...
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is to impute the missing race or ethnicity labels using proxies, then use those imputations to estimate the disparity … estimates of common health conditions by race using data from the American Family Cohort …
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