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453Administrative records mask racially biased policingAmerican Political Science Review 114 (3): 619-637. 2020.Researchers often lack the necessary data to credibly estimate racial discrimination in policing. In particular, police administrative records lack information on civilians police observe but do not investigate. In this article, we show that if police racially discriminate when choosing whom to investigate, analyses using administrative records to estimate racial discrimination in police behavior are statistically biased, and many quantities of interest are unidentified—even among investigated i…Read more
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Rare events researchIn Kimberly Kempf-Leonard (ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, Elsevier. pp. 293--297. 2004.
William Lowe
Hertie School
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Hertie SchoolSenior Research Scientist
University of Edinburgh
PhD, 2001
Berlin, BE, Germany
Areas of Specialization
Causation |
Philosophy of Social Science |
Philosophy of Statistics |
Decision Theory |
Bayesian Reasoning |