Replication data for: The Effect of Court-Ordered Hiring Quotas on the Composition and Quality of Police
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Justin McCrary
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Project Citation:
McCrary, Justin. Replication data for: The Effect of Court-Ordered Hiring Quotas on the Composition and Quality of Police. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2007. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-12-07. https://doi.org/10.3886/E116260V1
Project Description
Summary:
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Arguably the most aggressive affirmative action program ever implemented in the
United States was a series of court-ordered racial hiring quotas imposed on
municipal police departments. My best estimate of the effect of court-ordered
affirmative action on work-force composition is a 14-percentage-point gain in the
fraction African American among newly hired officers. Evidence on police performance
is mixed. Despite substantial black-white test score differences on police
department entrance examinations, city crime rates appear unaffected by litigation.
However, litigation lowers slightly both arrests per crime and the fraction black
among serious arrestees. (JEL H76, J15, J78, K31)
Scope of Project
JEL Classification:
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H76 State and Local Government: Other Expenditure Categories
J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
J78 Labor Discrimination: Public Policy
K31 Labor Law
K42 Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
H76 State and Local Government: Other Expenditure Categories
J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
J78 Labor Discrimination: Public Policy
K31 Labor Law
K42 Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
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