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View article: High-frequency location data show that race affects citations and fines for speeding
High-frequency location data show that race affects citations and fines for speeding Open
Prior research on racial profiling has found that in encounters with law enforcement, minorities are punished more severely than white civilians. Less is known about the causes of these encounters and their implications for our understandi…
View article: Laboratory Testbeds and Nonmarket Valuation: The Case of Bidding Behavior in a Second-price Auction with an Outside Option
Laboratory Testbeds and Nonmarket Valuation: The Case of Bidding Behavior in a Second-price Auction with an Outside Option Open
Researchers now use the lab to examine the behavioral underpinnings of valuation before the field application which some argue has less experimental control. But lab valuation work raises its own set of concerns when it uses private goods …
View article: Aggregation Bias in the Economic Model of Crime
Aggregation Bias in the Economic Model of Crime Open
This paper uses county-level panel data to test the appropriateness of the ‘one size fits all’ reduced-form regression approach commonly used when estimating the economic model of crime. Empirical results provide initial evidence that prev…
View article: Using Field Experiments to Understand the Impact of Institutions on Economic Growth
Using Field Experiments to Understand the Impact of Institutions on Economic Growth Open
Field experiments are a useful empirical tool that can be deployed in any sub-discipline—including institutional economics—to enhance the sub-discipline’s empirical insights. However, we here argue that there exist fundamental barriers to …
View article: Examining The Role Of Fairness In High Stakes Allocation Decisions
Examining The Role Of Fairness In High Stakes Allocation Decisions Open
Experimental evidence has prompted a debate over the nature of utility functions in which people are concerned about the amount others earn. We examine this issue by examining behavior across three variants of the dictator game. Using data…