John Knowles: Published Papers

Title: Racial Profiling or Racist Policing? Testing in Aggregated Data.

Authors: Rubén Hernández-Murillo and John Knowles

International Economic Review,Vol. 45 (3) pp 959-989

First Version: May, 2002

This Version: June, 2004

Abstract:

To what extent is the disparate impact of policing on racial minorities due to racism, rather than statistical discrimination? We extend the methodology developed by Knowles, Persico and Todd (2000) to the analysis of racial bias in aggregate statistics rather than individual observations.
We apply our tests to Missouri's annual traffic-stop report for the year 2001, and show that statistical discrimination cannot explain the disparate impact of police searches on Black and Hispanic motorists.

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