Showing 1 - 10 of 1,581
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086666
One of the most important debates among health economists in rich nations is whether advances in biotechnology will spare their health care systems from a financial crisis. We must consider that prevalence rates of chronic diseases declined during the twentieth century and that this rate of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758331
Forecasts of the rate of price inflation play a central role in the formulation of monetary policy, and forecasting inflation is a key job for economists at the Federal Reserve Board. This paper examines whether this job has become harder and, to the extent that it has, what changes in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012761277
This article examines the performance of various financial variables as predictors of subsequent U.S. recessions. Series such as interest rates and spreads, stock prices, currencies, and monetary aggregates are evaluated singly and in comparison with other financial and non-financial indicators....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212897
This paper examines the likely growth of U.S. GDP in the decade beginning in 2010. I analyze the two components of the rise in GDP over this ten year period: (1) the recovery from the substantially depressed level of economic activity at the start of the decade; and (2) the rise in potential GDP that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148647
, drug use, police, and arrests in New York City. We use monthly data from 1970 through 1990 for New York City. We plot the … individual time series for five different non-drug crimes, arrest rates for these crimes, drug deaths, number of police officers … drug use and murders or assaults, holding constant arrest rates and police. In addition, we found evidence of police …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135310
We examine the ill-health retirement of police officers in the forces of England and Wales between 2002-03 and 2009 …-specific differences in human resources policies. Reforms to police pension plans - in particular a shift in the incidence of financing ill …-health retirement from central government to local police authorities - occurred in the mid-2000s. We show these measures impacted on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099124
-scale randomized trials conducted in collaboration with the state police of Rajasthan, India sought to increase police efficiency and … improve interactions with the public. In a sample of 162 police stations serving almost 8 million people, the first experiment … tested four interventions recommended by police reform panels: limitations of arbitrary transfers, rotation of duty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108917
We analyze data on NYPD's "stop and frisk program" in an effort to identify racial bias on the part of the police … latter are being stopped despite being a "less productive stop" for a police officer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086676
While there is much concern about the role of race in police use of force, identifying causal effects is difficult … highlight race as an important determinant of police use of force, including and especially lethal force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840850