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Citation

Ludwig J, Cook PJ. J. Am. Med. Assoc. JAMA 2000; 284(21): 2718-2721.

Affiliation

Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, American Medical Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11105171

Abstract

Dr Lott's econometric suggestions are problematic. It is well known that arrest rates have a spurious negative correlation with the crime rate, since the latter constitutes the denominator of the former.1 Introducing an "independent" variable that is co-determined with the dependent variable will generally bias all coefficient estimates.
DOI 10.1001/jama.284.21.2717

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