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Right-to-Carry Laws and Violent Crime : A Comprehensive Assessment Using Panel Data and a State-Level Synthetic Control Analysis
Donohue, John J. - 2018
This paper uses more complete state panel data (through 2014) and new statistical techniques to estimate the impact on violent crime when states adopt right-to-carry (RTC) concealed handgun laws. Our preferred panel data regression specification, unlike the statistical model of Lott and Mustard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012933716
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A Panel-Based Proxy for Gun Prevalence in the Us
S. A. 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012893086
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More Guns, More Crime
Duggan, Mark - 2021
positively related to changes in the homicide rate, with this relationship driven entirely by the impact of gun ownership on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013234042
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The Effect of Gun Shows on Gun-Related Deaths : Evidence from California and Texas
Duggan, Mark; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Jacob, Brian - 2021
, one might be concerned that gun shows would exacerbate suicide rates by providing individuals considering suicide with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013234395
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The Effects of Gun Prevalence on Burglary : Deterrence vs Inducement
Cook, Philip J.; Ludwig, Jens - 2021
The proposition that widespread gun ownership serves as a deterrent to residential burglary is widely touted by advocates, but the evidence is weak, consisting of anecdotes, interviews with burglars, casual comparisons with other countries, and the like. A more systematic exploration requires...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313639
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Economic and Non-Economic Factors in Violence : Evidence from Organized Crime, Suicides and Climate in Mexico
Baysan, Ceren - 2018
Organized intergroup violence is almost universally modeled as a calculated act motivated by economic factors. In contrast, it is generally assumed that non-economic factors, such as an individual's emotional state, play a role in many types of interpersonal violence, such as "crimes of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912542
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Taxing Guns vs. Taxing Crime : an Application of the "Market for Offenses Model"
Ehrlich, Isaac - 2010
The interaction between offenders and potential victims has so far received relatively little attention in the literature on the economics of crime. The main objective of this paper is twofold: to extend the "market for offenses model" to deal with both "product" and "factor" markets, and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143178
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Stopping Suicide Attacks : Optimal Strategies and Unintended Consequences
McBride, Michael T. - 2010
counterproductive consequences. This paper models a terrorist organization, a religious group from which the terrorists recruit suicide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134861
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Counter-Suicide-Terrorism : Evidence from House Demolitions
Benmelech, Efraim - 2010
This paper examines whether house demolitions are an effective counterterrorism tactic against suicide terrorism. We … suicide attacks against Israeli targets. By exploiting spatial and time variation in house demolitions and suicide terror … attacks during the second Palestinian uprising, we show that punitive house demolitions (those targeting Palestinian suicide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136560
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Economic Conditions and the Quality of Suicide Terrorism
Benmelech, Efraim - 2010
We analyze the link between economic conditions and the quality of suicide terrorism. While the existing empirical …, higher-impact, terror missions. Using the universe of Palestinian suicide terrorists against Israeli targets between the … years 2000 and 2006 we provide evidence on the correlation between economic conditions, the characteristics of suicide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138762