To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To answer this question, we exploit … increases in homicides, gun-related homicides and crime gun seizures in the post-2004 period. Second, the magnitude of this … cartels and entrenched local governments, highlighting the role of political instability in mediating the gun-crime …

This paper provides a county-level investigation of the root causes of gun violence in the U.S. To guide our empirical … the number of illegal guns and decrease with social capital and police intensity. Using detailed panel data from the …

This paper provides a county-level investigation of the root causes of gun violence in the U.S. To guide our empirical … the number of illegal guns and decrease with social capital and police intensity. Using detailed panel data from the …

Around the world, policymakers and news reports have warned that domestic violence (DV) could increase as a result of … use high-frequency, real-time data from Los Angeles on 911 calls, crime incidents, arrests, and calls to a DV hotline to …

Gun violence is a major problem in the United States, and extensive prior work has shown that higher temperatures … exacerbates the effect of temperature on violence. We use two identification strategies that exploit daily variation in …

Gun violence is a major problem in the United States, and extensive prior work has shown that higher temperatures … exacerbates the effect of temperature on violence. We use two identification strategies that exploit daily variation in …

of criminal and noncriminal gun prevalence on violence rates. We first show that a number of previous studies have failed … time series proxy problem is severe; previous panel data studies have used proxies that are essentially uncorrelated in … determined by a negative deterrent effect of noncriminal gun prevalence. The beneficiaries of the reduced level of violence may …

suggestive evidence that lower handgun sales primarily reduced impulsive assaults and domestic violence. …