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Ethnic fragmentation and police spending: social identity and a public good
Ajilore, Olugbenga; Smith, John - 2007
We present evidence that more ethnically fragmented communities spend, all else equal, more on police services than … less fragmented communities. We introduce a model of spending on police services which we use to interpret the data. In … spending on police services reduces the attractiveness of committing a crime. We also assume that being a victim of crime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266339
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Do #AllLivesMatter? : an evaluation of race and excessive use of force by police
Ajilore, Olugbenga; Shirey, Shane - In: Atlantic economic journal : AEJ 45 (2017) 2, pp. 201-212
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806041
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Ethnic fragmentation and police spending
Ajilore, Olugbenga; Smith, John - In: Applied economics letters 18 (2011) 4/6, pp. 329-332
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009233009
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Ethnic fragmentation and police spending : social identity and a public good
Ajilore, Olugbenga (contributor); Smith, John (contributor) - 2007
We present evidence that more ethnically fragmented communities spend, all else equal, more on police services than … less fragmented communities. We introduce a model of spending on police services which we use to interpret the data. In … spending on police services reduces the attractiveness of committing a crime. We also assume that being a victim of crime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003710433
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Ethnic Fragmentation and Police Spending
Ajilore, Olugbenga; Smith, John - 2010
Using a Two-Stage Least Squares procedure, we estimate the relationship between ethnic fragmentation and police … and accounting for simultaneity bias, ethnic fragmentation is positively related to police spending. Our paper contributes … to the understanding of the stylized fact that public spending on police increased over a period in which the incidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199176
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The Spillover Effect of Race on Police Expenditures : An Alternative Test of the Minority Threat Hypothesis
Ajilore, Olugbenga - 2018
the relationship and potential spillovers between race and police expenditures. This paper uses a strategic interaction … conservative exhibit positive spillovers on neighboring county police expenditures. This paper makes a contribution by showing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012913839
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The spillover effect of race on police expenditures : an alternative test of the minority threat hypothesis
Ajilore, Olugbenga - In: The review of black political economy 43 (2016) 1, pp. 21-34
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011671053
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Ethnic Fragmentation and Police Spending: Social Identity and a Public Good
Smith, John; Ajilore, Olugbenga - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 2007
We present evidence that more ethnically fragmented communities spend, all else equal, more on police services than … less fragmented communities. We introduce a model of spending on police services which we use to interpret the data. In … spending on police services reduces the attractiveness of committing a crime. We also assume that being a victim of crime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005800339
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Ethnic fragmentation and police spending
Ajilore, Olugbenga; Smith, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Using a Two-Stage Least Squares procedure, we estimate the relationship between ethnic fragmentation and police … and accounting for simultaneity bias, ethnic fragmentation is positively related to police spending. Our paper contributes … to the understanding of the stylized fact that public spending on police increased over a period in which the incidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543500