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. 2021 Jan 22;194:104344. doi: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104344

Table A6.

Robustness Checks.

Dependent variable: Log of Overall Crime Incidents
Before window
After window


7 weeks 5 weeks 3 weeks 2 weeks 4 weeks 6 weeks 8 weeks 2019 Unemployment
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9)
After*Treat −0.265*** −0.241*** −0.203*** −0.259*** −0.265*** −0.255*** −0.248*** −0.255*** −0.227***
(0.024) (0.025) (0.027) (0.031) (0.024) (0.020) (0.018) (0.022) (0.047)
Unemployment Rate −0.005



Observations 1,221 999 777 999 1,221 1,443 1665 418 1,221
Adjusted R2 0.976 0.983 0.985 0.975 0.976 0.977 0.978 0.985 0.976
*p**p***p < 0.01

Note: *p<0.1 **p<0.05 ***p<0.01. This table present results robustness checks of the main results presented in Table 1. Overall crime rate is the dependent variable in each column, which presents a separate regression based off the difference-in-difference specification in equation (1) with the following differences. The first 3 columns vary the number of weeks in the before period; the next 4 columns vary the number of weeks in the after period. 7 weeks in the before period and 4 weeks in the after period is the baseline that is used in Table 1. Column 8 uses only data from 2019 and 2020. Column 9 adds the unemployment rate as an additional control variable to the base specification. After = 1 beginning the week of the stay-at-home order and 0 otherwise; Treat = 1 for 2020 and 0 otherwise. All regressions include city and week fixed effects. Standard errors calculated by wild bootstrap. Data source: city police departments.