Income Distribution, Police Expenditures, and Crime: A Political Economy Perspective
通过结构模型估计收入分配、警察支出与犯罪的关系，模型考虑个体犯罪选择及多数投票决定的警察支出，并用美国数据识别参数。
In this paper, I present a structural approach to investigate empirically the relation between income distribution, police expenditures and crime. The approach is based on the estimation of an equilibrium model where heterogeneous individuals choose whether to engage in criminal activities and expenditures on police to apprehend criminals are determined endogenously through majority voting. I discuss the identification and estimation of the parameters of the structural model using data for the United States.