Transcription of More Guns, More Crime
{{id}} {{{paragraph}}}
Example: tourism industry
More Guns, More Crime
1086[Journal of Political Economy,2001, vol. 109, no. 5] 2001 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. 0022-3808/2001/10905-0006$ guns , more CrimeMark DugganUniversity of Chicago and National Bureau of Economic ResearchThis paper examines the relationship between gun ownership andcrime. Previous research has suffered from a lack of reliable data ongun ownership. I exploit a unique data set to reliably estimate annualrates of gun ownership at both the state and the county levels duringthe past two decades. My findings demonstrate that changes in gunownership are significantly positively related to changes in the hom-icide rate, with this relationship driven almost entirely by an impactof gun ownership on murders in which a gun is used. The effect ofgun ownership on all other Crime categories is much less reductions in the fraction of households owning a gun canexplain one-third of the differential decline in gun homicides relativeto nongun homicides since changes in gun ownership influence the Crime rate?
more guns, more crime 1087 in gun ownership will serve to increase the number of homicides. Al-ternatively, if criminals are deterred from committing crimes when po-
Loading..
Tags:
Information
Domain:
Source:
Link to this page:
Please notify us if you found a problem with this document:
Related search queries
MORE AND MORE, OR LESS AND LESS, TWO-STROKE OIL IS LESS. MORE, More, More-than-Moore” White Paper, More About Alcoholism, HUMAN RESOURCES TRANSFORMATION PLAN MOTORS, Human Resources Transformation Plan . Motors, GRADE 7 READING, Virginia Department of, Virginia Department of Education, More Than a Carpenter, More, fewer, or the same, More Than You Know