Justin McCrary
Assistant Professor,
University of California, Berkeley
School of Law
Publications
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime: Comment
American Economic Review, Volume 92, Number 4, September 2002
Data available at: http://emlab.berkeley.EDU/replications/mccrary/index.html
The Effect of Court-Ordered Hiring Quotas on the Composition and Quality of Police
(American Economic Review, Volume 97, Number 1, March 2007)
Manipulation of the Running Variable in the Regression Discontinuity Design: A Density Test
(Journal of Econometrics, Volume 142 , Issue 2, February 2008)
Stata code is here
Following Germany's Lead: Using International Monetary Linkages to Estimate
the Effect of Monetary Policy on the Economy (with Julian di Giovanni and Till von Wachter)
(Review of Economics and Statistics, Forthcoming 2008)
Working Papers
The Effect of Female Education on Fertility and Infant Health:
Evidence from School Entry Laws Using Exact Date of Birth (with Heather Royer)
(Second Revision Requested, American Economic Review)
Crime, Punishment, and Myopia (with David S. Lee)
Also available as NBER Working Paper 11491
Under revision
Finite Sample Properties of Semiparametric Estimators
of Average Treatment Effects (with Matias Busso and John DiNardo)
Under revision
Constructive Proposals for Dealing With Attrition (with John DiNardo and Lisa Sanbonmatsu)
Under revision
Incomes in South Africa Since the Fall of Apartheid (with Murray Leibbrandt and Jim Levinsohn)
Under revision
Also available as NBER Working Paper 11384
Programs are available here, but we are not free to disseminate the data.
Mailing address: E-mail:
Justin McCrary the first letter of my first name, my full last name, at, law.berkeley.edu
School of Law
University of California, Berkeley
586 Simon Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-7200
Phone (Law): (510) 643-6252
Phone (Econ): (510) 643-8596
