Allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons deters violent crimes and it appears to produce no increase in accidental deaths or suicides. If those states who did not have right-to-carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1570 murders and over 4177 rapes would have...

One of the standard proposition in the migration literature is that migrants tend to be favorably "self-selected" for labor market sucess. In recent years there have been challenges to the general proposition of the favorable selectivity of migrants. In addressing this issue this paper first...