Information Technology, Organization, and Productivity in the Public Sector: Evidence from Police Departments
利用1987-2003年警察局面板数据，研究发现信息技术本身未提升打击犯罪效率，但与特定管理实践（如Compstat项目）结合时能改善生产率。
We examine how information technology (IT) contributes to organizational change, labor demand, and improved productivity in the public sector using a new panel data set of police departments covering 1987-2003. While IT adoption is associated with increased administrative and organizational complexity and use of more highly educated officers, IT itself does not appear to enhance crimefighting effectiveness. These results are robust to various methods for controlling for agency-level characteristics and the endogeneity of IT use. IT investments do, however, appear to improve police productivity when complemented with particular management practices–in this case, those associated with the Compstat program.