Helland, Eric; Tabarrok, Alexander - In: Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy 4 (2004) 1, pp. 1182-1182
We reexamine Mustard and Lott's controversial study on the effect of "shall-issue" gun laws on crime using an empirical standard error function randomly generated from "placebo" laws. We find that the effect of shall-issue laws on crime is much less well-estimated than the Mustard and Lott...