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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 13.
Published in final edited form as: J Public Econ. 2009 Apr;93(3-4):10.1016/j.jpubeco.2008.09.011. doi: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2008.09.011

Table 4.

Impact of No-Drop Policy on Rate of Calls Reporting Domestic Violence, 6 California Counties

No-drop policy 0.005 [0.003]
Per capita income in 1000s 0.333 [0.517]
Employment to population ratio −0.251 [0.062]
Non-intimate homicide rate −0.021 [0.015]
Share black 0.231 [0.242]
Share hispanic 0.058 [0.133]
Mandatory arrest for domestic violence 0.001 [0.003]
Assaults against women per 1000 women 0.055 [0.018]
DV Shelters per 1000 women 0.061 [0.704]
Observations 66
R-squared 0.72
Mean of dependent variable 0.0358
Size of effect 14%
Robust standard errors (clustered on county) in brackets
Dependent variable is the number of calls per woman age 15–44 in the county (average =0.037)
Regressions include county fixed effects and linear time trend