Replication data for: Racial and Ethnic Sentencing Differentials in the Federal Criminal Justice System
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Brendon McConnell; Imran Rasul
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Project Citation:
McConnell, Brendon, and Rasul, Imran. Replication data for: Racial and Ethnic Sentencing Differentials in the Federal Criminal Justice System. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2018. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114430V1
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Summary:
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A large body of multidisciplinary research has documented how sentencing outcomes vary tremendously across racial and ethnic groups. The research challenge lies in establishing whether these sentencing differentials are driven by unobserved heterogeneity correlated to defendant race/ethnicity, or whether they reflect discrimination. We add to the debate by examining the robustness of racial/ethnic sentencing gaps, by gender, when allowing for selection on unobservables. We do so in the context of federal criminal cases, considering 250,000 cases, and using a dataset containing a rich set of covariates relating to defendant and legal characteristics of cases.
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JEL Classification:
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J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
K41 Litigation Process
K42 Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
K41 Litigation Process
K42 Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
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