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Ain't no silver bullet? : gun laws and suicide in the US

Ball, Joshua; Schulze, Günther G.; Zakharov, Nikita - 2024

We revisit the effect of gun laws on suicide rates in the US states in the past 30 years by departing from the … firearm suicide rates (both in correlational and IV estimations), corroborating previous findings; yet this decline does not … suggests that gun laws are not effective in curbing overall suicide rates. …

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Substance abuse treatment centers and local crime

Bondurant, Samuel R.; Lindo, Jason M.; Swensen, Isaac D. - 2016

effects on homicides are documented across three sources of homicide data. …

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Stand your ground laws and homicides

McClellan, Chandler; Tekin, Erdal - 2012

The controversies surrounding Stand Your Ground laws have recently captured the nation's attention. Since 2005, eighteen states have passed laws extending the right to self-defense with no duty to retreat to any place a person has a legal right to be, and several additional states are debating...

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Gun violence in the U.S. : correlates and causes

Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Seiffert, Sebastian - 2017

This paper provides a county-level investigation of the root causes of gun violence in the U.S. To guide our empirical analysis, we develop a simple theoretical model which suggests that firearm-related offenses in a given county increase with the number of illegal guns and decrease with social...

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Gun violence in the U.S. : correlates and causes

Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Seiffert, Sebastian - 2017

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More Guns, More Unintended Consequences : The Effects of Right-to-Carry on Criminal Behavior and Policing in US Cities

Donohue, John J.; Cai, Samuel V.; Bondy, Matthew V.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

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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The effect of gun shows on gun-related deaths : evidence from California and Texas

Duggan, Mark G.; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Jacob, Brian Aaron - 2008

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A panel-based proxy for gun prevalence in US and Mexico

Cerqueira, Daniel; Coelho, Danilo Santa Cruz; Donohue, … - In: International review of law and economics 71 (2022), pp. 1-12

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The Hidden Cost of Firearm Violence on Pregnant Women and Their Infants

Currie, Janet M.; Dursun, Bahadir; Hatch, Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

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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Age and Suicide Impulsivity : Evidence from Handgun Purchase Delay Laws

Donohue, John J.; Cai, Samuel V.; Ravi, Arjun - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

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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