id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_2hllexfjwnfnjgz2xxs3j2i7ri David M. Konisky Compliance Bias and Environmental (In)Justice 2013 14 .pdf application/pdf 10036 719 47 demographics influence compliance bias or the failure to detect noncompliant firms. community mobilization and agency decision-making authority shape bureaucrats' incentives to report noncompliance. delineates the political costs and benefits of state regulatory officers implementing the U.S. Clean Air Act. Using detection-controlled estimation, we find that while certain communities are vulnerable to compliance bias, such bias is mitigated in the presence of either politically mobilized communities or decentralized enforcement authority Observed correlations between community demographics and regulatory outputs may reflect a firm's communities are better equipped to generate compliance costs for firms and political costs for bureaucrats, and the decision-making authority of the state regulatory officers largely responsible for implementing (DCE) to model the effects of demographic characteristics on both individual firm and regulatory officer firms in minority (or poor) communities as noncompliant when these communities are politically mobilized. political mobilization can alter not only firms' compliance decisions, but also regulatory officers' detection ./cache/work_2hllexfjwnfnjgz2xxs3j2i7ri.pdf ./txt/work_2hllexfjwnfnjgz2xxs3j2i7ri.txt