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Urban Safety in Vancouver: Allocation and Production of a Congestible Public Good

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  • Steven G. Craig
  • Eric J. Heikkila

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This paper is a simultaneous exploration of the within-city production of safety with the endogenous allocation of public inputs (police). Three issues are central. One is an examination of the local government allocation function. Second is that safety is specified as a congestible public service consistent with club theory. Finally, the model is estimated using a survey measure of crime. These innovations are due to a unique data set containing observations by neighborhoods in the city of Vancouver. The results are crucial for illustrating crime deterrence, as well as the local public good nature of safety.

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  • Steven G. Craig & Eric J. Heikkila, 1989. "Urban Safety in Vancouver: Allocation and Production of a Congestible Public Good," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 22(4), pages 867-884, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:cje:issued:v:22:y:1989:i:4:p:867-84
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    1. Reiter, Michael & Weichenrieder, Alfons J., 1999. "Public Goods, Club Goods, and the Measurement of Crowding," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 46(1), pages 69-79, July.
    2. John Conley & Manfred Dix, 2004. "Beneficial Inequality in the Provision of Municipal Services: Why Rich Neighborhoods Should Get Plowed First," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 70(4), pages 731-745, April.
    3. Scott N Lieske & Donald M McLeod & Roger H Coupal & Sanjeev K Srivastava, 2012. "Determining the Relationship between Urban Form and the Costs of Public Services," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 39(1), pages 155-173, February.
    4. Ehud Guttel & Barak Medina, 2007. "Less Crime, More (Vulnerable) Victims: Game Theory and the Distributional Effects of Criminal Sanctions," Discussion Paper Series dp472, The Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
    5. Malte Hückstädt, 2022. "Coopetition between frenemies–interrelations and effects of seven collaboration problems in research clusters," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 127(9), pages 5191-5224, September.
    6. Steven G. Craig & Edward C. Hoang, 2024. "Intra-city Tiebout: the economic consequences of crossed borders," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 73(3), pages 1005-1043, October.
    7. Stegarescu, Dan & Schwager, Robert & Büttner, Thiess, 2004. "Agglomeration, Population Size, and the Cost of Providing Public Services: An Empirical Analysis for German States," ZEW Discussion Papers 04-18, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
    8. Ehud Guttel & Barak Medina, 2007. "Less Crime, More (Vulnerable) Victims: Game Theory and the Distributional Effects of Criminal Sanctions," Levine's Bibliography 122247000000001799, UCLA Department of Economics.
    9. Fukushige Mototsugu & Yingxin Shi, 2016. "Efficient scale of prefectural government in China," China Finance and Economic Review, De Gruyter, vol. 5(1), pages 88-109.
    10. Ajwad, Mohamed Ihsan, 2006. "Is intrajurisdictional resource allocation equitable?: An analysis of campus-level spending data for Texas elementary schools," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 46(4), pages 552-564, September.
    11. Craig, Steven G. & Holsey, Cheryl M., 1997. "Efficient inequality: differential allocation in the local public sector," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 27(6), pages 763-784, November.
    12. Mototsugu Fukushige & Yingxin Shi, 2014. "Efficient Scale of Local Government in China: Quantile Regression Approach to County-Level Data," Discussion Papers in Economics and Business 14-15, Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics.

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