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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 … 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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Weak Tests and Strong Conclusions : A Re-Analysis of Gun Deaths and the Australian Firearms Buyback
Neill, Christine; Leigh, Andrew - 2007
impact on the rate of gun suicide or accidental death by shooting. We revisit their analysis, and find that their results are … substitution and for underlying trends in suicide or homicide rates are misleading. The high variability in the data and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014224419
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Do gun buybacks save lives? : evidence from panel data
Leigh, Andrew; Neill, Christine - In: American law and economics review : the journal of the … 12 (2010) 2, pp. 509-557
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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 … 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/10010269891
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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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Weak tests and strong conclusions : a re-analysis of gun deaths and the Australian firearms buyback
Neill, Christine (contributor); Leigh, Andrew (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003478432
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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
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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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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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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/10011594236