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There is a consensus that the proportion of suicides committed with a firearm is the best proxy for gun ownership … prevalence. Cerqueira et al. (2018) exploit the socioeconomic characteristics of suicide victims in order to develop a new and … model for the likelihood of committing suicide with gun. We empirically assess this new indicator using gun ownership data …
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of the suicide victims so as to come up with a novel proxy for gun ownership. We assess our indicator using suicide micro …
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of the suicide victims so as to come up with a novel proxy for gun ownership. We assess our indicator using suicide micro …
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incident. The results suggest that violent crime has large and persistent effects on mortality, suicide, earnings, work status …The connection between violence victimization and long term ill-health is well documen­ted, but evidence is lacking on … estimate the longer term consequences of interpersonal violence on victims. Using rich administrative population data for …
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The 2005 report of the National Research Council (NRC) on Firearms and Violence recognized that violent crime was … higher in the post-passage period (relative to national crime patterns) for states adopting right-to-carry (RTC) concealed … by Lott and Mustard (LM) and Moody and Marvell (MM) that had previously been offered as evidence of crime-reducing RTC …
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This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...
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This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...
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Over the past four decades, more than 2,300 people have been the victims of mass shootings involving a firearm in the …
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This study uses unit record data from the Queensland Crime Victim Survey to analyse the joint likelihood of becoming a … victim of, and being afraid of becoming a victim of, crime …
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