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Urban crime rates in the United States fell markedly during the 1990s and remain at historically low levels. The … statistical evidence presented here indicates that that decline, like the crime surge that preceded it, has been largely … uncorrelated with changes in socioeconomic conditions across cities. The ups and downs of crime have a considerable effect on …
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the legal possibility of dropping out. The "crime" and "dropout" differences are strong but somewhat muted by the fact …
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the legal possibility of dropping out. The "crime" and "dropout" differences are strong but somewhat muted by the fact …
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This paper provides new estimates of the effect of household gun prevalence on homicide rates, and infers the marginal external cost of handgun ownership. The estimates utilize a superior proxy for gun prevalence, the percentage of suicides committed with a gun, which we validate. Using county-...
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