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deployment on crime. However, the elasticities obtained in these settings may not easily extrapolate to more standard … these increases in patrolling were accompanied by corresponding decreases in crime. The standard errors are small enough to …
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recidivating within a year by 20 percent. This is largely a specific deterrence effect driven by the punishment itself and not by …
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We evaluate the impact on crime of a localized policing experiment that depenalized the possession of small quantities … move there to purchase cannabis; (ii) enable the Lambeth police to reallocate effort towards other types of crime. We … investigate whether the depenalization policy impacts the level and composition of crime, using administrative records on criminal …
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In this paper we estimate the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on local crime. We do so using …
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This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...
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