effect of shall-issue right-to-carry concealed weapons laws on crime. In particular, we systematically examine how different … important for explaining the observed patterns of crime. In terms of model uncertainty, we find that there is substantial …

This paper presents the first attempt to estimate the benefits of reducing crime using the contingent-valuation (CV …) method. We focus on gun violence, a crime of growing policy concern in America. Our data come from a national survey in which …

handgun carry permit holders. We use detailed crime and handgun carry permit data for the city of Memphis to estimate the …

citizens an unimpeded right to secure permits for concealed weapons) reduce violent crime. While certain facially plausible … more guns, less crime hypothesis. The most robust finding on the state data is that certain property crimes rise with … in most states shall- issue laws have been associated with more crime and that the apparent stimulus to crime tends to be …

Crime Victimization Survey, to produce the first systematic estimates of the net effects of gun prevalence on residential …

This paper examines the relationship between gun ownership and crime. Previous research has suffered from a lack of … murders in which a gun is used. The effect of gun ownership on all other crime categories is much less marked. Recent … on crime, and reject the hypothesis that these laws led to increases in gun ownership or reductions in criminal activity …

statistical models by Lott and Mustard (LM) and Moody and Marvell (MM) that had previously been offered as evidence of crime …-reducing RTC laws, now only generate statistically significant estimates showing RTC laws increase overall violent crime and … crime. To the extent the large increases in gun thefts induced by RTC laws generate crime increases in non-RTC states, the …

Despite dozens of studies, research on crime in the United States has struggled to reach consensus about the impact of … laws increase or decrease the crime rate. With others, RTC laws are found to increase some crimes, decrease other crimes …