A Test of Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing
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- Alberto Alesina & Eliana La Ferrara, 2014. "A Test of Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 104(11), pages 3397-3433, November.
- Alesina, Alberto Francesco & La Ferrara, Eliana, 2014. "A Test of Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing," Scholarly Articles 30752840, Harvard University Department of Economics.
- Alberto F. Alesina & Eliana La Ferrara, 2011. "A Test of Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing," NBER Working Papers 16981, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Alberto Alesina & Eliana La Ferrara, 2011. "A Test of Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing," Working Papers 387, IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University.
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Death penalty; Discrimination; Test for racial bias;All these keywords.
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- J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- K40 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - General
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