For over a decade, there has been a spirited academic debate over the impact on crime of laws that grant citizens the presumptive right to carry concealed handguns in public – so-called right-to-carry (RTC) laws. In 2004, the National Research Council (NRC) offered a critical evaluation of the...

Given the large number of possible specification choices available to researchers when estimating the causal effect of concealed-carry laws on crime, one can generate considerable variation across models in the estimated effects of these laws. However, the growing sophistication in the...

This essay provides an overview of the central theoretical law and economics insights and empirical findings concerning antidiscrimination law across a variety of contexts including discrimination in labor markets, housing markets, consumer purchases, and policing. The different models of...