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Unlocking Amenities : Estimating Public-Good Complementarity
Albouy, David - 2018
of public goods to minority households. Recent reductions in crime have "unlocked" $5 billion in property value in …
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Poisedness and Propagation : Organizational Emergence and the Transformation of Civic Order in 19th-Century New York City
Johnson, Victoria - 2015
The emergence of novelty, especially of new categories of people and organizations, is undertheorized in the social sciences. Some social worlds are more hospitable to novel introductions or exogenous perturbations than others. Explaining this relative "poisedness" is essential to understanding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457657
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Reducing Crime Through Environmental Design : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of Street Lighting in New York City
Chalfin, Aaron - 2019
This paper offers experimental evidence that crime can be successfully reduced by changing the situational environment … landscape - street lighting - and report the first experimental evidence on the effect of street lighting on crime. Through a … reductions in crime. After accounting for potential spatial spillovers, we find that the provision of street lights led, at a …
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Carrots, Sticks and Broken Windows
Corman, Hope - 2002
. While both economic and deterrence variables are important in explaining the decline in crime, the contribution of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469652
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A Time-Series Analysis of Crime and Drug Use in New York City
Corman, Hope - 1996
This report summarizes the results of a project which investigated the time series interrelationships between crime …
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Can Gun Violence be Deterred at Low Cost? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in New York City
Aboaba, Oludamilare; Chalfin, Aaron; LaForest-Tucker, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Can gun violence be deterred at low cost? We report the results of a randomized experiment of a messaging intervention which was designed to reduce gun violence among individuals under parole supervision with a prior violent felony conviction or firearm arrest. The intervention consisted of a...
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Alcohol Consumption, Deterrence and Crime in New York City
Corman, Hope - 2013
This paper investigates the relationship between alcohol consumption, deterrence, and crime for New York City. We … by exploiting the temporal independence of crime and deterrence in these high-frequency data, and we address the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459931
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Quantifying Family, School, and Location Effects in the Presence of Complementarities and Sorting
Agrawal, Mohit - 2018
We extend the control function approach of Altonji and Mansfield (2018) to allow for multiple group levels and complementarities. Our analysis provides a foundation for causal interpretation of multilevel mixed effects models in the presence of sorting. In our empirical application, we obtain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480819
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Why Tie A Product Consumers Do Not Use?
Carlton, Dennis W. - 2007
This paper provides a new explanation for tying that is not based on any of the standard explanations -- efficiency, price discrimination, and exclusion. Our analysis shows how a monopolist sometimes has an incentive to tie a complementary good to its monopolized good in order to transfer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465313
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Strategic Incompatibility in ATM Markets
Knittel, Christopher R. - 2006
We test whether firms use incompatibility strategically, using data from ATM markets. High ATM fees degrade the value of competitors' deposit accounts, and can in principle serve as a mechanism for siphoning depositors away from competitors or for creating deposit account differentiation. Our...
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