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Mobile Phones and Crime Deterrence: An Underappreciated Link

Research Handbook on the Economics of Criminal Law, Alon Harel and Keith N. Hylton, eds., August, 2012, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 12-33

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 17 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2013

Jonathan Klick, John MacDonald and Thomas Stratmann

University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Pennsylvania and George Mason University - Buchanan Center Political Economy

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The Effects of Local Police Surges on Crime and Arrests in New York City

Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-468

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 04 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2016

John MacDonald, Jeffrey Fagan and Amanda Geller

University of Pennsylvania, Columbia Law School and NYU Department of Sociology

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Policing, Crime and Legitimacy in New York and Los Angeles: The Social and Political Contexts of Two Historic Crime Declines

Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 12-315

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 22 Aug 2012

Jeffrey Fagan and John MacDonald

Columbia Law School and University of Pennsylvania

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The Effect of Privately Provided Police Services on Crime

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 12-36

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 06 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 20 Nov 2012

John MacDonald, Jonathan Klick and Ben Grunwald

University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Law School and Duke University School of Law

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Reducing Crime by Shaping the Built Environment with Zoning: An Empirical Study of Los Angeles

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 161, No. 699, 2013

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 13 Feb 2013

James M. Anderson, John MacDonald, Ricky Bluthenthal and J. Ashwood

RAND Corporation, University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California - Keck School of Medicine and RAND Corporation

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The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Private Law Enforcement: Evidence from University Police

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The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Private Law Enforcement: Evidence from University Police

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8800

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 14 Feb 2015

Paul S. Heaton, Priscillia Hunt, John MacDonald and Jessica Saunders

University of Pennsylvania Law School, RAND Corporation, University of Pennsylvania and RAND Corporation

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The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Private Law Enforcement: Evidence from University Police

Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 59, p. 889, 2016, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 17-33

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 07 Aug 2017

Paul S. Heaton, Priscillia Hunt, John MacDonald and Jessica Saunders

University of Pennsylvania Law School, RAND Corporation, University of Pennsylvania and RAND Corporation

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Do Schools Cause Crime in Neighborhoods? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Growth of Charter Schools in Philadelphia

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 09 Aug 2015

John MacDonald and Nancy Nicosia

University of Pennsylvania and RAND Corporation

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Sobering Up After the Seventh Inning: Alcohol and Crime Around the Ballpark

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 27 Apr 2020

Jonathan Klick and John MacDonald

University of Pennsylvania Law School and University of Pennsylvania

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Using Shifts in Deployment and Operations to Test for Racial Bias in Police Stops

AEA Papers and Proceedings 2019, 109: 1–5, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-619

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 18 May 2020

John MacDonald and Jeffrey Fagan

University of Pennsylvania and Columbia Law School

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Public Safety Through Private Action: An Economic Assessment of Bids, Locks, and Citizen Cooperation

NBER Working Paper No. w15877

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 12 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 05 Sep 2010

Philip J. Cook and John MacDonald

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy and University of Pennsylvania

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Deterring Property Tax Delinquency in Philadelphia: An Experimental Evaluation of Nudge Strategies

NBER Working Paper No. w23243

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 19 Mar 2017

Michael Chirico, Robert P. Inman, Charles Loeffler, John MacDonald and Holger Sieg

University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics

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Does Mandatory Diversion to Drug Treatment Eliminate Racial Disparities in the Incarceration of Drug Offenders? An Examination of California's Proposition 36

NBER Working Paper No. w18518

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 11 Nov 2012

Nancy Nicosia, John MacDonald and Rosalie Liccardo Pacula

RAND Corporation, University of Pennsylvania and University of Southern California - Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics

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Public Safety Through Private Action: An Economic Assessment of BIDs

The Economic Journal, Vol. 121, Issue 552, pp. 445-462, 2011

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 20 May 2011

Philip J. Cook and John MacDonald

affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Pennsylvania

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Neighborhood Interventions to Reduce Violence

Annual Review of Public Health, Vol. 39, pp. 253-271, 2018

Posted: 18 Jun 2018

Michelle Kondo, Elena Andreyeva, Eugenia C. South, John MacDonald and Charles C. Branas

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania - Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania and University of Pennsylvania - Perelman School of Medicine

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University of Pennsylvania

Professor of Criminology and Sociology

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