Economics and ethics both offer important perspectives on our society, but they do so from two different viewpoints … - the central focus of economics is how the price system in our economy values resources; the central focus of ethics is the …

functional - that it evolved as a form of 'psychological and biological police' to enforce cooperation in economic production and …

wage levels of police officers. We analyze the effect of arbitration on wages by comparing wage levels across political … police officers, and individual level data on police officers from Decennial Censuses. The empirical results from both data …

We develop an empirical model of the mechanism used to assign police officers to Chicago districts and examine the … neighborhoods. Moreover, this assignment can be achieved in a revenue-neutral way while resulting in small welfare gains for police …

Police body-worn cameras (BWCs) have been the subject of much research on how the technology's enhanced documentation … of police/citizen interactions impact police behavior. Less attention has been paid to how BWC recordings affect the … adjudication of citizen complaints against the police. We employ citizen complaint data from the Chicago Police Department and …

with recent, widely publicized instances of police misconduct; declines in public trust in police; and a rise in gun … two levers: (1) police resources, and (2) policing strategies or policies, historically focused on crime control but … three types of evidence. First, we show there is substantial variability in violent crime and police use of force both …

hundred municipal police departments. The timing of unionization in these departments clearly indicates that unionization … municipalities and their police is virtually nonexistant. Moreover, the proportional hazards analysis that controls for the effects … important determinant of unionization among police. Among different types of bargaining policies, "duty-to-bargain" provisions …

. Examining the strike activity and unionization rates of some 600 nonunion municipal police departments from 1972 to 1978, this … rights for municipal police. However, these strikes do not increase the unionization propensities of these police departments …

in collective bargaining laws across states. The model is estimated using data on over 800 municipal police departments …