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 …

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

empirical investigation of their impact on crime and victimization. In this paper, we use monthly data from the U.S. Vital …

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

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 …

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 that had previously been offered as evidence of crime-reducing RTC laws … overall violent crime. Our synthetic control approach also strongly confirms that RTC laws are associated with 13-15 percent …

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 …

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 …