Caetano, Gregorio; Maheshri, Vikram - In: Quantitative Economics 9 (2018) 1, pp. 343-394
Does crime in a neighborhood cause future crime? Without a source of quasi-experimental variation in local crime, we develop an identification strategy that leverages a recently developed test of exogeneity (Caetano (2015)) to select a feasible regression model for causal inference. Using a...