Estimating Effects of Affirmative Action in Policing: A Replication and Extension
| Autor: | Anna Harvey, Maryah Garner, Hunter Johnson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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040101 forestry
Economics and Econometrics Affirmative action biology 05 social sciences Miller 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences Criminology biology.organism_classification Race (biology) 0502 economics and business 0401 agriculture forestry and fisheries Employment discrimination 050207 economics Psychology Law Finance Clearance |
| Zdroj: | International Review of Law and Economics. 62:105881 |
| ISSN: | 0144-8188 |
| Popis: | Many police departments in the United States have experienced externally-imposed affirmative action plans designed to increase the shares of nonwhite and female police officers. This paper examines whether externally-imposed affirmative action plans have impacted the rates of reported offenses and/or offenses cleared by arrest, seeking to replicate and extend Lott (2000) and McCrary (2007) . Using a series of modern econometric strategies, including difference-in-differences decomposition and generalized synthetic controls, we do not find a significant effect of court-imposed affirmative action plans on the rates of reported offenses or reported offenses cleared by arrest, a finding consistent with McCrary (2007) . We also consider whether unlitigated agencies change their practices due to the threat of litigation, but, like McCrary (2007) , are unable to identify causal evidence of such threat effects. We suggest that, in the spirit of Miller and Segal (2018) , future research seek to estimate the potentially racially heterogeneous treatment effects of race-based affirmative action plans on public safety outcomes. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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