Kovandzic, Tomislav; Schaffer, Mark; Kleck, Gary - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Keywords: crime, homicide, gun levels, endogeneity
Corresponding author:
Mark Schaffer
Centre for Economic Reform and … rates of violent crime, both fatal and nonfatal, a larger private civilian gun stock,
and a higher fraction of its violent … substantially reduce
violent crime, especially the homicide rate (e.g., Clarke and Mayhew, 1988, p. 106; Duggan, 2001).
While gun …