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The effect of private police on crime: evidence from a geographic regression discontinuity design

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  • Jonathan Klick
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  • John M. MacDonald & Jonathan Klick & Ben Grunwald, 2016. "The effect of private police on crime: evidence from a geographic regression discontinuity design," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 179(3), pages 831-846, June.
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