Evidence of Police Discrimination from a Conjoint Analysis of Law Enforcement Officers

• In Event: Identity and Discrimination

Brief Overview

We use a conjoint experiment with Nepali police officers to measure law enforcement’s personal and institutional preferences for criminal investigation. We find evidence of discriminatory preferences against caste-class subjugated communities.

Authors

• Margaret Boittin, York University

• Rachel Fisher, University of California-Berkeley

• Cecilia Hyunjung Mo, University of California-Berkeley