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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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Do firearm purchase delay laws reduce aggregate homicide levels? Using quasi-experimentalevidence from a 6-month countrywide gun demand shock starting in late 2012, we showthat U.S. states with legislation preventing immediate handgun purchases experiencedsmaller increases in handgun sales. Our...
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Limited by the lack of data on gun ownership in the United States, ecological research linking firearms ownership rates to homicide often relies on proxy measures of ownership. Although the variable of interest is the gun ownership rate, not the proxy, the existing research does not formally...
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Despite dozens of studies, research on crime in the United States has struggled to reach consensus about the impact of … laws increase or decrease the crime rate. With others, RTC laws are found to increase some crimes, decrease other crimes …
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John Donohue and colleagues recently assessed the impact of "right-to-carry" (RTC) laws on crime rates. These laws make … other researchers have found, these laws increase violent crime. This paper presents a critical analysis of the research by …
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explores the impact of state E-Verify laws on crime. Using agency-by-month data from the 2004 to 2015 National Incident Based …-skilled natives of Hispanic descent, and outmigration of younger Hispanics are important channels. We find no evidence that crime was … displaced to nearby U.S. jurisdictions without E-Verify or that violent crime was impacted by E-Verify mandates. Moreover …
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latter is immigration policy and its impact on violent crime where the claims of the pro- and anti-immigration groups are …
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Do firearm purchase delay laws reduce aggregate homicide levels? Using quasi-experimental evidence from a 6-month countrywide gun demand shock starting in late 2012, we show that U.S. states with legislation preventing immediate handgun purchases experienced smaller increases in handgun sales....
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Current public health research on gun violence refers to its epidemiology; i.e., understanding where, when and how gun violence events take place. There is also a subset of this research which predates most of the epidemiological approaches to the problem that attempts to analyze the costs of...
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