The Impact of Jury Race in Criminal Trials

By Shamena Anwar, Patrick J. Bayer, Randi Hjalmarsson. 2012

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Law

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/52b7fdeade71005c69878c806a2691f4e81a37fb

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Crystal S. Yang
2. Alma Cohen
3. A. Alesina
4. Eliana La Ferrara
5. Steven Mello
6. Felipe M. Goncalves
7. Elvire Guillaud
8. Max Nathan

In Law

1. Alma Cohen
2. Crystal S. Yang

Citations in the corpus

• A Test of Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing (2014, background): “…to test if there are systematic differences across judges in the racial gap in sentencing for felony crimes ( Abrams, Bertrand, and Mullainathan 2012 or if there is evidence of bias in felony trial outcomes depending on the racial composition of the jury ( Anwar, Bayer, and Hjalmarsson 2012 .”
• Does Integration Change Gender Attitudes? The Effect of Randomly Assigning Women to Traditionally Male Teams* (2018, unknown): “They are also related to the observed reductions in racial discrimination in criminal trials when whites serve with black jurors (Anwar et al., 2012), and to the finding that randomly exposing wealthy students to poor students affects pro-social behavior and discrimination in Indian schools (Rao, 20”
• Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions (2019, background): “3See, e.g., Antonovics and Knight (2009), Ayres and Waldfogel (1994), Rehavi and Starr (2014), Anwar et al. (2012), Abrams et al. (2012), Alesina and La Ferrara (2014), Starr (2015), Arnold et al. (2017). to set aside any ideological biases, leading to a dramatic increase in the time from…”
• NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE EFFECTS OF PRE-TRIAL DETENTION ON CONVICTION, FUTURE CRIME, AND EMPLOYMENT: EVIDENCE FROM RANDOMLY ASSIGNED JUDGES (2016, unknown): “[5] Anwar, Shamena, Patrick Bayer, and Randi Hjalmarsson.”
• Racial Bias in Bail Decisions ⇤ (2018, unknown): “[13] Anwar, Shamena, Patrick Bayer, and Randi Hjalmarsson.”
• Testing for Racial Prejudice in the Parole Board Release Process: Theory and Evidence (2015, unknown): “For robustness, we use two di§erent time frames for each of our recidivism measuresñnamely, columns (1) and (3) correspond to whether an individual recidivates within three years upon release, and columns (2) and (4) correspond to whether an individual recidivates within Öve years upon release.”
• A Few Bad Apples? Racial Bias in Policing (2017, background): “Blacks and Hispanics are more likely to be stopped by the police (Coviello and Persico, 2013), convicted of a crime (Anwar et al., 2012), denied bail (Arnold et al., 2018), and issued a lengthy prison sentence (Rehavi and Starr, 2014) relative to observably similar whites.”