Estimating Gender Disparities in Federal Criminal Cases
This paper assesses gender disparities in federal criminal cases. It finds large gender gaps favoring women throughout the sentence length distribution (averaging over 60%), conditional on arrest offense, criminal history, and other pre-charge observables. Female arrestees are also significantly lik...
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Format: | Electronic Book |
Language: | English |
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2012
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In: | Year: 2012 |
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