This paper provides a county-level investigation of the root causes of gun violence in the U.S. To guide our empirical …

This paper provides a county-level investigation of the root causes of gun violence in the U.S. To guide our empirical …

increases in homicides, gun-related homicides and crime gun seizures in the post-2004 period. Second, the magnitude of this …To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To answer this question, we exploit … supply in Mexican municipios near Texas, Arizona and New Mexico, but not near California, which retained a pre-existing state …