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Replication Data for: Fire Alarms for Police Patrols: Experimental Evidence on Co-Production of Public Safety

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Title Replication Data for: Fire Alarms for Police Patrols: Experimental Evidence on Co-Production of Public Safety
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/RVV8SD
 
Creator Nanes, Matthew
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Effective public goods provision requires co-production by both citizens and the government. Search costs which impede citizens' abilities to share information constitute a critical and understudied impediment to this co-production. We experimentally evaluate search costs in a rural, conflict-affected province of the Philippines. We randomize the rollout of a police hotline which dramatically reduces the costs of reporting, and compare it against both the status- quo and an alternative intervention which builds trust but does not affect search costs. The hotline increased the likelihood of reporting crimes by 10--19 percentage points. The intervention reduced perceived insurgent activity but had no perceptible impact on ordinary crime. Our findings suggest that addressing search costs substantially impede to service delivery, potentially explaining why policies imported from higher-capacity countries may fail to achieve results in developing contexts.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Community policing
Public goods
Philippines
Crime
Insurgency
 
Contributor Nanes, Matthew