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Ordered leniency : an experimental study of law enforcement with self-reporting
Landeo, Claudia; Spier, Kathryn E. - 2018
This paper reports the results of an experiment designed to assess the ability of an enforcement agency to detect and deter harmful short-term activities committed by groups of injurers. With ordered-leniency policies, early cooperators receive reduced sanctions. We replicate the strategic...
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The effect of police on crime : new evidence from US cities, 1960 - 2010
Chalfin, Aaron; McCrary, Justin - 2013
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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 that potential victims and offenders face. We focus on a ubiquitous but surprisingly understudied feature of the urban landscape - street lighting - and report the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479748
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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 that potential victims and offenders face. We focus on a ubiquitous but surprisingly understudied feature of the urban landscape – street lighting – and report the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871155
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Optimal law enforcement with ordered leniency
Landeo, Claudia; Spier, Kathryn E. - In: The journal of law & economics 63 (2020) 1, pp. 71-111
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The Effect of Police on Crime : New Evidence from U.S. Cities, 1960-2010
Chalfin, Aaron - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459847
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The long-run effect of Mexican immigration on crime in US cities : evidence from variation in Mexican fertility rates
Chalfin, Aaron - In: The American economic review 105 (2015) 5, pp. 220-225
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The Effect of Police on Crime : New Evidence from U.S. Cities, 1960-2010
Chalfin, Aaron - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086666
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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 … community. The program did not lead to a reduction in gun violence or create community spillover effects but did reduce parole …
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