unemployment rate, to decreases (increases) in per capita real GDP and to decreases (increases) in the police force. The same … result is obtained between unemployment and property crime in annual state-level panel data. These results suggest that it … asymmetric response of crime. In this paper we use three different data sets and three different empirical methodologies to …

unemployment rate, to decreases (increases) in per capita real GDP and to decreases (increases) in the police force. The same … result is obtained between unemployment and property crime in annual state-level panel data. These results suggest that it … asymmetric response of crime. In this paper we use three different data sets and three different empirical methodologies to …

An influential literature has used the aftermath of terrorist attacks to estimate large effects of police street … deployment on crime. However, the elasticities obtained in these settings may not easily extrapolate to more standard … circumstances. This paper exploits a natural experiment that aimed to increase police presence in more than 6,000 well-defined areas …