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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

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

  • Justin McCrary
American Economic Review
vol. 92, no. 4, September 2002
(pp. 1236–1243)
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Citation

McCrary, Justin. 2002. "Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime: Comment ." American Economic Review, 92 (4): 1236–1243. DOI: 10.1257/00028280260344768

JEL Classification

  • K42 Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
  • D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior