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- Title
Is the Highway Patrol Really Tougher on Out-of-State Drivers? An Empirical Analysis.
- Authors
Roach, Michael
- Abstract
Using speeding citations from the North Carolina State Highway Patrol, this paper examines whether out-of-state drivers face different enforcement standards than in-state drivers. Discrimination effects are identified by assuming exogenous differences in license plate design affect troopers' abilities to identify out-of-state drivers. The pattern of citations for difficult to identify out-of-state drivers is significantly different from (indeed, stricter than) the pattern for more easily identifiable out-of-state drivers. I take this as evidence of troopers attempting to apply different enforcement standards to out-of-state drivers. One explanation is troopers attempting to deter in-state speeders whose behavior may be more sensitive to enforcement.
- Subjects
AUTOMOBILE drivers; DISCRIMINATION (Sociology); PUNISHMENT in crime deterrence; CRIME prevention; TRAFFIC police
- Publication
B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2015, Vol 15, Issue 2, p769
- ISSN
2194-6108
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/bejeap-2014-0011