Racial Profiling? Detecting Bias Using Statistical Evidence

Nicola Persico ()
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Nicola Persico: Department of Economics, New York University, New York, New York 10012

Annual Review of Economics, 2009, vol. 1, issue 1, 229-254

Abstract: We review the economics literature that deals with identifying bias, or taste for discrimination, using statistical evidence. A unified model is developed that encompasses several different strategies studied in the literature. We also discuss certain more theoretical questions concerning the proper objective of discrimination law.

Keywords: discrimination; identification; bias (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J71 K31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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