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Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effects of Police on Crime: Reply
Justin McCrary (2002) demonstrates that a paper of mine on the subject of elections, police, and crime published in this journal (Levitt, 1997) suffers from programming and classi cation errors. It is with tremendous personal embarrassment that I acknowledge these mistakes, and I thank McCrary for his careful work that has laid bare these errors. While any mistake in published work is unaccept...
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This paper replicates a well-known article by Steven Levitt (AER, 1997). Levitt argues that an electoral cycle in police hiring generates exogenous variation in city police force size which may be used to estimate the causal effect of police on crime. I point out that a weighting error in Levitt’s computer program led to incorrect inferences for the key results of his paper. Replication estimat...
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In an in uential paper in the June 1997 American Economic Review, Steven Levitt argues that there is an electoral cycle in police hiring, with faster hiring in election years and slower hiring in other years. He then uses elections as an instrument for police hiring to estimate the causal effect of police on crime. This comment points out that a weighting error in Levitt’s estimation procedure...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Issues in Social Science
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2329-521X
DOI: 10.5296/iss.v2i2.6698