Author: Leigh, Andrew
Title: Do Gun Buybacks Save Lives? Evidence from Panel Data
Summary: In 1997, Australia implemented a gun buyback program that reduced the stock of firearms by around one-fifth. Using differences across states in the number of firearms withdrawn, this study tests whether the reduction in firearms availability affected firearm homicide and suicide rates. The study found that the buyback led to a drop in the firearm suicide rates of almost 80 percent, with no statistically significant effect on non-firearm death rates. The estimated effect on firearm homicides is of similar magnitude, but is less precise. The results are robust to a variety of specification checks, and to instrumenting the state-level buyback rate.
Details: Bonn, Germany: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2010. 55p.
Source: Internet Resource; IZA Discussion Paper No. 4995
Year: 2010
Country: Australia
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Shelf Number: 118790
Keywords:
FirearmsFirearms (Australia)Gun Buyback ProgramsGun ControlHomicideSuicide |
Author: Dreyfus, Pablo
Title: Small Arms in Rio de Janeiro: The Guns, the Buyback, and the Victims
Summary: This report presents three separate studies regarding a gun buyback program in Rio de Janeiro: Do voluntary small arms collections reduce violence? Do they work in isolation, or do they have to be combined with other control measures? The first study attempts to answer these questions by analysing the impact in the state of Rio de Janeiro of a national small arms buyback campaign that took place from July 2004 to October 2005. The study concludes that in Rio de Janeiro, small arms voluntary collection campaigns do indeed reduce armed violence, as long as they are not implemented in isolation; they must be combined with other preventative measures. The second study analyses the volume, price and symbolic value of small arms in the criminal market in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, the study finds that 928,621 small arms circulate in the so-called Marvellous City, of which 159,723 are used in crime. The third study looks at demand for small arms in Rio de Janeiro and asks whether the characteristics of the city are unique, in particular in its impoverished peripheral areas where armed violence is most acute.
Details: Geneva, Switzerland: Small Arms Survey, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, 2008. 147p.
Source: Internet Resource; Special Report by Small Arms Survey, Viva Rio, and ISER
Year: 2008
Country: Brazil
URL:
Shelf Number: 114582
Keywords:
Armed ViolenceGun Buyback ProgramsGun ViolenceGunsIllicit MarketsWeapons |
