HOW DARK IS DARK? BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY, RACIAL PROFILING

Grogger and Ridgeway (2006) use the daylight saving time shift to develop a police racial profiling test that is based on differences in driver race visibility and (hence) the race distribution of traffic stops across daylight and darkness. However, urban environments may be well lit at night, erodi...

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Published in:The review of economics and statistics 2016-05, Vol.98 (2), p.226-232
Main Authors: Horrace, William C., Rohlin, Shawn M.
Format: Article
Language:English
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2006-2009
Brightness
Daylight
Daylight saving
Drivers
Police community relations
Profiles
Race
Racial differences
Racial profiling
Specification
Studies
Tests
Traffic police
Urban areas
Visibility
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