Do Police Reduce Crime? Estimates using the Allocation of Police Forces after a Terrorist Attack

By R. Tella, Ernesto Schargrodsky. 2004

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Subfields: Nature and Landscape Conservation, Sociology and Political Science

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In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Dean Yang
2. J. McCrary
3. Melissa Dell
4. Dan Nagin
5. O. Marie
6. Stephen Machin
7. Aaron Chalfin

In Sociology and Political Science

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2. J. McCrary
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Citations in the corpus

• Armed Conflict Exposure, Human Capital Investments, And Child Labor: Evidence From Colombia (2012, unknown): “8 Leading examples of the direct effect of the police force in crime reduction include Di Tella and Schargrodsky ( 2004 ), Klick and Taborrak ( 2005 ) and Draca et al .”
• Corruption in Developing Countries (2012, unknown): “With regard to more micro evidence, Di Tella and Schargrodsky (2004) test the efficiency wage idea by looking at a corruption crackdown in Buenos Aires hospitals’ procurement departments.”
• Panic on the Streets of London: Police, Crime and the July 2005 Terror Attacks (2011, background): “Levitt’s (1997) study found elasticities in the -0.43 to -0.50 range, while Corman and Mocan (2000) estimated an average elasticity of -0.45 across different types of offences and Di Tella and Schargrodsky (2004) reported an elasticity of motor vehicle thefts with respect to police of -0.33.”
• Are U.S. Cities Underpoliced? Theory and Evidence (2017, background): “3 Prominent quasi-experimental papers after Levitt (1997) include Di Tella and Schargrodsky (2004), Klick and Tabarrok (2005), Evans and Owens (2007), Draca, Machin and Witt (2011), Machin and Marie (2011), and Vollaard and Hamed (2012).”
• The Deterrent Effects of Prison: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (2009, background): “It is worth citing Marvell and Moody (1996), Levitt (1997), Corman and Mocan (2000), and Di Tella and Schargrodsky (2004).”
• TESTING ENFORCEMENT STRATEGIES IN THE FIELD: THREAT, MORAL APPEAL AND SOCIAL INFORMATION (2013, background): “Despite substantial advances of the empirical literature (for a survey, see Levitt and Miles, 2007), there are only a few studies that solve the identification problem (e.g., Corman and Mocan, 2000; Levitt, 2002; DiTella and Schargrodsky, 2004; Drago et al., 2009).”
• Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War (2015, background): “One commonly used approach for identifying such spillovers is to test whether crackdowns increase criminal activity in adjacent areas (see for example Di Tella and Schargrodsky, 2004).”
• The Effects of Hot Spots Policing on Crime: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2014, background): “Buenos Aires Police Presence after Terror Attack Study (DiTella & Schargrodsky, 2004 ).”