Plausibly Exogenous [1850] - Police Presence (02/25/2025)
LHS Variable
Crime
RHS Variable
Police presence
Source of Exogenous Variation
Natural experiment in which a private university increased the number of police patrols within an arbitrarily defined geographic boundary
- MacDonald, Klick, and Grunwald (2016), “The effect of private police on crime: evidence from a geographic regression discontinuity design”