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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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environment. Using geocoded crime data and a novel source of within-city spatial and temporal variation in punishment severity, I … consistent with police treating enforcement effort and punishment severity as complementary. I also find that citywide crime and …
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public goods. To do so, we analyze policing and crime incidence under mayors directly elected by voters and under mayors … overall crime between 4.9% and 5.7%, depending on the specification. Our results further suggest that more accountable mayors …
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This paper investigates local crime's concern effect on confidence in the police using Two Least Square Regressions … heterogeneities in the results we find that black are more sensitive to crime rate changes even living in similar neighborhoods in …
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Police agencies devote vast resources to minimising the time that it takes them to attend the scene of a crime. Despite … likelihood of clearing the crime. We find stronger effects for thefts than for violent offenses, although the effects are large … for every type of crime. We find suggestive evidence in support of two mechanisms: the likelihood of an immediate arrest …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923235
This paper investigates local crime's concern effect on confidence in the police using Two Least Square Regressions … heterogeneities in the results we find that black are more sensitive to crime rate changes even living in similar neighborhoods in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012901681
's perspective, and therefore led the Police to increase its activity against crime …
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Mafia firms introduce distortions in the markets in which they operate, increasing the cost of doing business for peer firms. We investigate whether peers respond by increasing their tax avoidance and thus increasing funds available to compete with the Mafia firms. Using a sample of Italian...
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to increase crime. The altered behavior of permit holders, career criminals, and the police combine to generate 29 and 32 … percent increases in firearm violent crime and firearm robbery respectively. The increasing firearm violence is facilitated by … a massive 35 percent increase in gun theft (p=0.06), with further crime stimulus flowing from diminished police …
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