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Greater US gun ownership, lethality and murder rates : analysis and policy proposals
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2019
latter is immigration policy and its impact on violent crime where the claims of the pro- and anti-immigration groups are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138576
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Impulse purchases, gun ownership and homicides : evidence from a firearm demand shock
Koenig, Christoph; Schindler, David - 2019
Do firearm purchase delay laws reduce aggregate homicide levels? Using quasi-experimental evidence from a 6-month countrywide gun demand shock starting in late 2012, we show that U.S. states with legislation preventing immediate handgun purchases experienced smaller increases in handgun sales....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103583
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011616001
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Greater US gun ownership, lethality and murder rates : analysis and policy proposals
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2019
This paper examines the US gun-related murder (GM) rate and places it in an international perspective. The data show that the US GM rate is 27 times the average rate for 22 other developed countries (ODC). Its gun ownership rate is 5.4 times that of ODC and the murder rate per gun is 5 times...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012144516
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Do gun buybacks save lives? : evidence from panel data
Leigh, Andrew; Neill, Christine - 2010
In 1997, Australia implemented a gun buyback program that reduced the stock of firearms by around one-fifth. Using differences across states in the number of firearms withdrawn, we test whether the reduction in firearms availability affected firearm homicide and suicide rates. We find that the...
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Stand your ground laws and homicides
McClellan, Chandler; Tekin, Erdal - 2012
these laws may have for public safety, there has been little empirical investigation of their impact on crime and … your ground ; castle doctrine ; guns ; crime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009568740
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Cross-border spillover : US gun laws and violence in Mexico
Dube, Arindrajit; Dube, Oeindrila; García-Ponce, Omar - 2012
To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To answer this question, we exploit … increases in homicides, gun-related homicides and crime gun seizures in the post-2004 period. Second, the magnitude of this … cartels and entrenched local governments, highlighting the role of political instability in mediating the gun-crime …
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Greater US Gun Ownership, Lethality and Murder Rates : Analysis and Policy Proposals
Schiff, Maurice - 2019
latter is immigration policy and its impact on violent crime where the claims of the pro- and anti-immigration groups are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858835
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Impulse Purchases, Gun Ownership and Homicides : Evidence from a Firearm Demand Shock
Koenig, Christoph - 2019
Do firearm purchase delay laws reduce aggregate homicide levels? Using quasi-experimental evidence from a 6-month countrywide gun demand shock starting in late 2012, we show that U.S. states with legislation preventing immediate handgun purchases experienced smaller increases in handgun sales....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861441
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The Gold Standard of Gun Control - Book Review of Joyce Malcolm, Guns and Violence : The English Experience
Kopel, David B. - 2007
Guns and Violence tells a remarkable story of a society's self-destruction, of how a government in a few decades managed to reverse six hundred years of social progress in violence reduction. The book is also a testament to the amazing self-confidence of British governments; Labour and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775785