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Cook, Philip J.; Ludwig, Jens - 2004

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The social costs of gun ownership : spurious regression and unfounded public policy advocacy

Westphal, Christian - 2013 - This version: July 8, 2013

In 2006, a study, published in the Journal of Public Economics, employing a panel regression of 200 U.S. counties across 20 years, found a significant elasticity of homicides with respect to firearms ownership. Based on this finding the authors made the public policy recommendation of taxing gun...

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The social costs of gun ownership revisited

Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian; Westphal, Christian - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 56 (2019) 1, pp. 1-12

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The social costs of gun ownership : a reply to Hayo, Neumeier, and Westphal

Cook, Philip J.; Ludwig, Jens - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 56 (2019) 1, pp. 13-22

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The Social Costs of Gun Ownership

Cook, Phillip J. - 2004

This paper provides new estimates of the effect of household gun prevalence on homicide rates, and infers the marginal external cost of handgun ownership. The estimates utilize a superior proxy for gun prevalence, the percentage of suicides committed with a gun, which we validate. Using county-...

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The Social Costs of Gun Ownership : Spurious Regression and Unfounded Public Policy Advocacy

Westphal, Christian - 2013

In 2006, a study, published in the Journal of Public Economics, employing a panel regression of 200 U.S. counties across 20 years, found a significant elasticity of homicides with respect to ﬁrearms ownership. Based on this ﬁnding the authors made the public policy recommendation of taxing...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079273