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Do police reduce crime? Estimates using the allocation of police forces after a terrorist attack

Schargrodsky, Ernesto; Di Tella, Rafael
2003-05-29

An important challenge in the crime literature is to isolate causal effects of police on crime. Following a terrorist attack on the main Jewish center in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July 1994, all Jewish ...