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Do gun buybacks save lives? : evidence from panel data
Leigh, Andrew; Neill, Christine - 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 … state-level buyback rate. -- Firearms ownership ; homicide ; suicide ; panel data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003975442
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141728
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Weak Tests and Strong Conclusions : A Re-Analysis of Gun Deaths and the Australian Firearms Buyback
Neill, Christine; Leigh, Andrew - 2007
substitution and for underlying trends in suicide or homicide rates are misleading. The high variability in the data and the … introduced in the National Firearms Agreement (NFA) post-1996 did not affect firearm homicide rates, and may not have had an … impact on the rate of gun suicide or accidental death by shooting. We revisit their analysis, and find that their results are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014224419
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Do Gun Buybacks Save Lives? Evidence from Panel Data
Leigh, Andrew; Neill, Christine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008602718
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Weak Tests and Strong Conclusions: A Re-Analysis of Gun Deaths and the Australian Firearms Buyback
Neill, Christine; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2007
substitution and for underlying trends in suicide or homicide rates are misleading. The high variability in the data and the … introduced in the National Firearms Agreement (NFA) post- 1996 did not affect firearm homicide rates, and may not have had an … impact on the rate of gun suicide or accidental death by shooting. We revisit their analysis, and find that their results are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971309
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The effect of gun buy-back law reform on homicides and suicides in Australia
Duenow, Patrick; Connelly, Luke B. - In: Health economics 33 (2024) 2, pp. 248-279
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014470815
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How do mass shootings affect community wellbeing?
Soni, Aparna; Tekin, Erdal - 2020
Over the past four decades, more than 2,300 people have been the victims of mass shootings involving a firearm in the United States. Research shows that mass shootings have significant detrimental effects on the direct victims and their families. However, relatively little is known about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316219
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Safe Storage Gun Laws : Accidental Deaths, Suicides, and Crime
Lott, John R.; Whitley, John E - 2002
It is frequently assumed that safe storage gun laws reduce accidental gun deaths and total suicides, while the possible impact on crime rates are ignored. However, given existing work on the adverse impact of other safety laws, such as safety caps for storing medicine, even the very plausible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014156374
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532559
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The Effect of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on Opioid Prescriptions and Heroin Crime Rates
Mallatt, Justine - 2018
In response to growing abuse of prescription opioid painkillers, 50 U.S. states have implemented electronic prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) that record patients into a state-wide registry when a prescription opioid is received. This paper uses a difference-in-differences regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012932546