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known about the effects of private police on crime. The current study examines the relationship between a privately …-funded university police force and crime in a large U.S. city. Following an expansion of the jurisdictional boundary of the private … police force, we see no short-term change in crime. However, using a geographic regression discontinuity approach, we find …
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This research applies Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) to investigate how different types of urban open space and their spatial configurations are valued by residential property owners. To reflect residential property owners' perception of neighborhood and spatially heterogeneous...
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. While both economic and deterrence variables are important in explaining the decline in crime, the contribution of …
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. While both economic and deterrence variables are important in explaining the decline in crime, the contribution of …
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It is often conjectured that non-state dispute resolution blossoms when state courts are not independent or are perceived as low-quality courts. This conjecture implies a substitutive relationship between state and non-state dispute resolution. An alternative hypothesis argues that both the...
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The question of whether two drugs namely alcohol and tobacco are used as complements or substitutes is of crucial interest if side-effects of anti-drug policies are considered. Numerous papers have empirically addressed this issue by estimating demand systems for alcohol and tobacco and...
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