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Do Gun Buybacks Save Lives? Evidence from Panel Data

Leigh, Andrew - 2010

firearm homicide and suicide rates. We find that the buyback led to a drop in the firearm suicide rates of almost 80 per cent …

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Right-to-Carry Laws and Violent Crime : A Comprehensive Assessment Using Panel Data and a State-Level Synthetic Controls Analysis

Donohue, John J. - 2017

The 2005 report of the National Research Council (NRC) on Firearms and Violence recognized that violent crime was higher in the post-passage period (relative to national crime patterns) for states adopting right-to-carry (RTC) concealed handgun laws, but because of model dependence the panel was...

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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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Income, Health, and Suicide : Evidence from Individual Panel Data in Korea

Lee, Chulhee - 2017

Limited evidence regarding the effects of individual income and health on suicide was presented. We investigated how … of suicide. Poor health is strongly related to a high risk of suicide. The effects of income are strongly revealed for … males. Mental disability exerts a stronger effect on female suicide, whereas other types of disability have more powerful …

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The persistence of suicides in G20 countries between 1990 and 2017 : an SPSM approach to three generations of unit root tests

Anyikwa, Izunna; Hamman, Nicolene; Phiri, Andrew - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 24 (2021) 2, pp. 153-173

global suicide rates. In applying the sequential panel selection method (SPSM) to three generations of unit root testing …

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A Panel-based Proxy for Gun Prevalence in the US

Cerqueira, Daniel - 2019

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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Firearms law and fatal police shootings : a panel data analysis

Rogna, Marco; Bich Diep Nguyen - In: Applied economics 54 (2022) 27, pp. 3121-3137

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Bayesian panel quantile regression for binary outcomes with correlated random effects : an application on crime recidivism in Canada

Bresson, Georges; Lacroix, Guy; Rahman, Mohammad Arshad - 2020

This article develops a Bayesian approach for estimating panel quantile regression with binary outcomes in the presence of correlated random effects. We construct a working likelihood using an asymmetric Laplace (AL) error distribution and combine it with suitable prior distributions to obtain...

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How Effective are Pictorial Warnings on Tobacco Products? New Evidence on Smoking Behaviour Using Australian Panel Data

Kühnle, Daniel - 2019

Studies examining the introduction of pictorial warnings on cigarette packages provide inconclusive evidence due to small samples and methodological issues. We use individual-level panel data from Australia to examine the association between pictorial warnings and smoking behaviour --...

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Income Polarization and Crime : A Generalized Index and Evidence from Panel Data

Lee, Yoonseok; Shin, Donggyun - 2011

The empirical evidence for a positive relationship between income inequality and crime is mixed at best. This paper questions the use of standard income inequality measures (e.g., Gini coefficient) in this literature and makes the case that polarization of the income distribution is a crucial...

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