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We analyze a sample of 47 major US cities to illuminate the mechanisms that lead Right-to-Carry concealed handgun laws to increase crime. The altered behavior of permit holders, career criminals, and the police combine to generate 29 and 32 percent increases in firearm violent crime and firearm...
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Firearm violence is a pervasive public health crisis in the United States, with significant numbers of homicides involving firearms, including indiscriminate shootings in public spaces. This paper investigates the largely unexplored consequences of stress induced by these attacks on newborn...
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We provide the first quasi-experimental estimates of variation in suicide impulsivity by age by examining the impact of … robustness of our results. We find that purchase delay laws reduce firearm suicide for the overall adult population, but this … relationship between purchase delay laws and firearm suicide reduction weakens with age and is not driven by gun ownership rates …
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This paper studies the language used in television news broadcasts to describe police killings in the United States from 2013-19. We begin by documenting that the media is significantly more likely to use several language structures - e.g., passive voice, nominalization, intransitive verbs -...
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prevalence. Cerqueira et al. (2108) exploit the socioeconomic characteristics of suicide victims in order to develop a new and … model for the likelihood of committing suicide with gun. We empirically assess this new indicator using gun ownership data … from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and suicide registers of the US National Center for Health …
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We investigate the consequences of anti-LGBT laws in Poland for suicide attempts and fatalities by applying border …-area difference-in-differences models to county-level data. We find that annual suicide attempts increased by 16%, or 5 attempts per … 100k capita, after the enactment of anti-LGBT statutes. This rise in suicide attempts was concentrated among men, and was …
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in adolescent suicide-related visits and show that a rise in 2012 followed changes in screening recommendations, while a … underlying suicide-related behaviors among children, while alarmingly high, may not have risen as sharply as reported rates …
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The suicide rate in the United States has risen nearly 40 percent since 2000. This increase is puzzling because suicide … changing rate of suicide. General trends miss the story of important differences across groups - suicide rates rose … substantially among middle aged persons between 2005 and 2015 but have fallen since. Among young people, suicide rates began a rapid …
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Our preferred panel data regression specification (the "DAWmodel") and the Brennan Center (BC) model, as well as other statistical models by Lott and Mustard (LM) and Moody and Marvell (MM) that had previously been offered as evidence of crime-reducing RTC laws, now only generate statistically...
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This paper studies the impact of adult prosecution on recidivism and employment trajectories for adolescent, first-time felony defendants. We use extensive linked Criminal Justice Admin- istrative Record System and socio-economic data from Wayne County, Michigan (Detroit). Using the discrete age...
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