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The Effect of Police on Crime: New Evidence from U.S. Cities, 1960-2010 / Aaron Chalfin, Justin McCrary.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chalfin, Aaron.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w18815.
- NBER working paper series no. w18815
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2013.
- Summary:
- We argue that the key impediment to accurate measurement of the effect of police on crime is not necessarily simultaneity bias, but bias due to mismeasurement of police. Using a new panel data set on crime in medium to large U.S. cities over 1960- 2010, we obtain measurement error corrected estimates of the police elasticity of the cost-weighted sum of crimes of roughly -0.5. The estimates confirm a controversial finding from the previous literature that police reduce violent crime more so than property crime.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- February 2013.
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