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

American Economic Review

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 270-290

  Levitt, Steven D ^a  

^a NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

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