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Racial Bias in Motor Vehicle Searches: Theory and Evidence

Persico, Nicola; Knowles, John; Todd, Petra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999

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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Reconsidering racial bias in motor vehicle searches: theory and evidence

Sanga, Sarath - In: Journal of political economy 117 (2009) 6, pp. 1155-1159

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Generalising the hit rates test for racial bias in law enforcement, with an application to vehicle searches in Wichita

Persico, Nicola; Todd, Petra - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 116 (2006), pp. 351-367

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A theory of optimal random crackdowns

Eeckhout, Jan; Persico, Nicola; Todd, Petra - In: The American economic review 100 (2010) 3, pp. 1104-1135

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Passenger profiling, imperfect screening, and airport security

Persico, Nicola; Todd, Petra - In: The American economic review 95 (2005) 2, pp. 127-131

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Using hit rate tests to test for racial bias in law enforcement : vehicle searches in Wichita

Persico, Nicola; Todd, Petra - 2004

"This paper considers the use of outcomes-based tests for detecting racial bias in the context of police searches of motor vehicles. It shows that the test proposed in Knowles, Persico and Todd (2001) can also be applied in a more general environment where police officers are heterogenous in...