Public Safety through Private Action: An economic assessment of BIDs, locks, and citizen cooperation

Philip J. Cook, John MacDonald

NBER Working Paper No. 15877
Issued in April 2010

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Seunghoon Han and Maeve Gearing provided excellent research assistance. Partial support for this research was provided through a cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (1U49CE000773). Thanks to Jens Ludwig,Tracey Meares, and conference attendees for their suggestions on an earlier draft. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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