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 …

Guns and Violence tells a remarkable story of a society's self-destruction, of how a government in a few decades … managed to reverse six hundred years of social progress in violence reduction. The book is also a testament to the amazing …

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 …

violent crime when states adopt right-to-carry (RTC) concealed handgun laws. Our preferred panel data regression specification …This paper uses more complete state panel data (through 2014) and new statistical techniques to estimate the impact on …, unlike the statistical model of Lott and Mustard that had previously been offered as evidence of crime-reducing RTC laws …

panel data estimates of the increase in violent crime will be understated …The 2005 report of the National Research Council (NRC) on Firearms and Violence recognized that violent crime was …Our preferred panel data regression specification (the "DAWmodel") and the Brennan Center (BC) model, as well as other …

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 …