Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime: Comment

By Steven D. Levitt. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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Using an Experimental Evaluation of Charter Schools to Test Whether Nonexperimental Comparison Group Methods Can Replicate Experimental Impact Estimates (2012, result): “…data on earnings (the key outcome 2 We contrast this type of replication study with studies where the objective is to see if a different researcher can independently replicate the findings of an existing study using the same methods and data sources, such as in Rothstein (2007) and McCrary (2002).”
Controlling for endogeneity with instrumental variables in strategic management research (2008, background): “the ‘equation is overidentified’) and assume that at least one instrument is exogenous (Levitt, 1997; Murray, 2006b; Wooldridge, 2006).”
Elections, Political Competition and Bank Failure (2014, neutral): “More recent works by Levitt (1997, 2002) use election cycles to instrument for the number of police in his study of the relation between police and crime, arguing that politicians tend to hire more police prior to elections.”
Avoiding Invalid Instruments and Coping with Weak Instruments (2006, background): “When McCrary (2002) showed that a programming error in Levitt’s (1997) computations led to an instrumental variable estimate of the effect of police on violent crime that was too large and erroneously significant, Levitt (2002) took the opportunity to reassess the effect of police on crime rates by…”
Understanding High Crime Rates in Latin America: The Role of Social and Policy Factors (2010, background): “Levitt (1997, 2002) also argues that increases in police are very effective in reducing violent crime, even though the effect on property crime may be substantially smaller.”