ARE U.S. CITIES UNDERPOLICED? THEORY AND EVIDENCE

We document the extent of measurement errors in the basic data set on police used in the literature on the effect of police on crime. Analyzing medium to large U.S. cities over 1960 to 2010, we obtain measurement error-corrected estimates of the police elasticity. The magnitudes of our estimates are...

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Published in:The review of economics and statistics 2018-03, Vol.100 (1), p.167-186
Main Authors: Chalfin, Aaron, McCrary, Justin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
1960-2010
Cities
Crime
Errors
Experimental literature
Measurement
Measurement errors
Offenses
Police
Quasi-experimental methods
Welfare
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