Describes several approaches for detecting racial profiling by police and calls for their use in monitoring the implementation of state and local immigration laws.
In advance of the repeal of the law known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Secretary of Defense requested that RAND update its 1993 study and analysis of sexual orientation among U.S. military personnel.
Testimony presented before the Senate Finance Committee on July 15, 2010.
Addresses issues related to public policies that encourage the extension of working lives of the elderly in the United States.
In 2002, the Cincinnati Police Department, through a collaborative agreement, joined with other organizations to improve police-community relations. This report focuses on the analysis of racial disparities in traffic stops in Cincinnati.
Investigates the relationship between metropolitan-level segregation measures and individual-level health outcomes and estimates the causal impact of neighborhood disadvantage on health.
Incorporating Traffic Enforcement Racial Profiling Analyses into Police Department Early Intervention Systems
This report presents the RAND study that resulted from a request to assist the Secretary of Defense in drafting an Executive Order to end discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in the U.S. Armed Forces.
Discusses the distinction between racial disparity and racial discrimination; summarizes what is known about racial bias in capital and non-capital cases; and points out the reasons that the serious limitations of the research methods in this field...
Part of a RAND study on the measurement of racial discrimination in the economic sphere.
A critical review of some quantitative empirical studies of racial residential segregation, principally Negroes in Cities: Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Change, by Taeuber and Taeuber, which uses an "index of dissimilarity" as the princip...
A theory of the value of discrimination in the job market as a function of the business cycle, based on elementary models of economic behavior in which, among other things, employer uncertainty about employee capacity to produce is incorporated. A fa...
Estimates of the parameters of a model of salary determination — in which the independent variables include measures of performance and experience, alternative earnings potential, and race — explain from one-half to three-fourths of the variation in...
A review of residential segregation. Dealing mainly with black Americans' housing, this paper considers (1) why segregation is an important topic; (2) the current magnitude of segregation in American cities and recent trends; (3) theoretical, empiri...
Two theoretical models are developed to examine the individual incentives and perceptions of difference between people that can lead, collectively, to the segregation of various sub-populations.
An examination of the available statistics to determine the degree to which socioeconomic factors, rather than racial prejudice, determine observed nonwhite residential segregation in the Chicago and Detroit metropolitan areas. Multiple regression te...
An analysis of the effect of discrimination in the housing market on the distribution and level of nonwhite employment in urban areas. The hypotheses evaluated are that racial segregation in the housing market: (1) affects the distribution of nonwhit...
An attempt to separate the causes of observed segregation of nonwhites in U.S. cities into socioeconomic differences and prejudice. The major hypothesis tested is that residential segregation is socioeconomic in character, i.e., is attributable to wh...
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