作者：Caetano, Gregorio; Maheshri, Vikram
作者单位：University of Rochester; University of Houston System; University of Houston
摘要：Does crime in a neighborhood cause future crime? Without a source of quasi-experimental variation in local crime, we develop an identification strategy that leverages a recently developed test of exogeneity (Caetano (2015)) to select a feasible regression model for causal inference. Using a detailed incident-based data set of all reported crimes in Dallas from 2000 to 2007, we find some evidence of dynamic spillovers within certain types of crimes, but no evidence that lighter crimes cause mor...
作者：Epple, Dennis; Jha, Akshaya; Sieg, Holger
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Carnegie Mellon University; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Many urban school districts in the United States and OECD countries confront the necessity of closing schools due to declining enrollments. To address this important policy question, we formulate a sequential game where a superintendent is tasked with closing down a certain percentage of student capacity; parents respond to these school closings by sorting into the remaining schools. We estimate parents' preferences for each school in their choice set using 4 years of student-level data from a...
