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 …

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 …

Across the basic seven Index I crime categories, the strongest evidence of a statistically significant effect would be … for aggravated assault, with 11 of 28 estimates suggesting that RTC laws increase this crime at the .10 confidence level … provides suggestive evidence that RTC laws may be associated with large increases in this crime, perhaps increasing such gun …

-defense in this way deters crime or, alternatively, increases homicide. To do so, we apply a difference-in-differences research …

in the context of the gun trafficking market. Using gun tracing data, which identify the source state for crime guns …

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 apply it to the case where guns are used for crime commission by … offenders and for self-protection by potential victims. Our analysis offers new insights about the association between crime and …

violent crime levels and law leads to attain significance or alter estimated law coefficients, and larger coefficient …