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[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0049089X10000062 by John L. Worrall 5/2010 ScienceDirect] | [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0049089X10000062 by John L. Worrall 5/2010 ScienceDirect] | ||
While police levels may affect crime, governments may react to crime by increasing police levels. The instrumental variables (IV) approach to this problem has proven difficult due to the problem of locating instruments for police levels. Using panel data from over 5000 cities (1990–2001), we instrumented police levels with two types of federal law enforcement grants, thus yielding over-identified models. | While police levels may affect crime, governments may react to crime by increasing police levels. The instrumental variables (IV) approach to this problem has proven difficult due to the problem of locating instruments for police levels. Using panel data from over 5000 cities (1990–2001), we instrumented police levels with two types of federal law enforcement grants, thus yielding over-identified models. | ||
=====Religion, Crime, and Social Trust in Historic Germany: Are Catholics More Inclined to Violate Social Norms than Protestants?===== | |||
[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/johs.12297 by Peter Graeff, Gert Tinggaard Svendsen 2/12/2020 WILEY] | |||
In 1676, Isaac Newton modestly wrote that if he had seen further than others, it was because he stood on the shoulders of giants (Newton, 1676). Olson (1965) could have said in the same way that if he stood on the shoulders of a giant, it must have been Adam Smith and his book The Wealth of Nations. | |||
