A considerable amount of attention has been afforded the randomized response approach over the past decade in an attempt to refine this method of reducing evasive answer bias in surveys of sensitive information. In this article we review these developments in an introductory fashion and address...

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All previous investigations into the effect of crime trends on appropriations for police protection have employed either inappropriate cross-sectional data or unrealistic singular lag structures. The model developed here involves a more reasonable lag structure and is estimated with time series...