TY  - JOUR
AU  - Anwar,Shamena
AU  - Fang,Hanming
TI  - An Alternative Test of Racial Prejudice in Motor Vehicle Searches: Theory and Evidence
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 11264
PY  - 2005
Y2  - April 2005
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11264
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11264.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Shamena Anwar
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave
Heinz College, Hamburg Hall Room 2116D
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Tel: 714-913-5172
E-Mail: shamena@andrew.cmu.edu

Hanming Fang
Department of Economics
University of Pennsylvania
3718 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Tel: 215-898-7767
Fax: 215-573-2057
E-Mail: hanming.fang@econ.upenn.edu
AB  - We propose a simple model of trooper behavior to design empirical tests for whether troopers of different races are monolithic in their search behavior, and whether they exhibit relative racial prejudice in motor vehicle searches. Our test of relative racial prejudice provides a partial solution to the well-known infra-marginality and omitted variables problems associated with outcome tests. When applied to a unique data set from Florida, our tests soundly reject the hypothesis that troopers of different races are monolithic in their search behavior, but fail to reject the hypothesis that troopers of different races do not exhibit relative racial prejudice.
ER  -