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2 results foundAuthor: Manski, Charles Title: How Do Right-To-Carry Laws Affect Crime Rates? Coping With Ambiguity Using Bounded-Variation Assumptions Summary: Despite dozens of studies, research on crime in the United States has struggled to reach consensus about the impact of right-to-carry (RTC) gun laws. Empirical results are highly sensitive to seemingly minor variations in the data and model. How then should research proceed? We think that policy analysis is most useful if researchers perform inference under a spectrum of assumptions of varying identifying power, recognizing the tension between the strength of assumptions and their credibility. With this in mind, we formalize and apply a class of assumptions that flexibly restrict the degree to which policy outcomes may vary across time and space. Our bounded variation assumptions weaken in various respects the invariance assumptions commonly made by researchers who assume that certain features of treatment response are constant across space or time. Using bounded variation assumptions, we present empirical analysis of the effect of RTC laws on violent and property crimes. We allow the effects to vary across crimes, years and states. To keep the analysis manageable, we focus on drawing inferences for three states - Virginia, Maryland, and Illinois. We find there are no simple answers; empirical findings are sensitive to assumptions, and vary over crimes, years, and states. With some assumptions, the data do not reveal whether RTC laws increase or decrease the crime rate. With others, RTC laws are found to increase some crimes, decrease other crimes, and have effects that vary over time for others. Details: Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2015. 47p. Source: Internet Resource: NBER Working Paper No. 21701: Accessed March 18, 2016 at: http://www.nber.org/papers/w21701.pdf Year: 2015 Country: United States URL: http://www.nber.org/papers/w21701.pdf Shelf Number: 138332 Keywords: Gun LawsGun PolicyGun-Related ViolenceProperty CrimesRight-to-Carry |
Author: Weisser, Michael Title: Preventing or Fomenting: A Contribution to the Lott - Donohue Debate Summary: Abstract This paper contains a discussion about the debate between John Donohue and John Lott regarding the relationship between right-to-carry (RTC) licensing and crime rates. It covers the most important publications of both scholars and reviews the assumptions which guided their work, as well as the findings and conclusions of each. The paper also examines the use and value of regression methodologies in developing each thesis and concludes with suggestions for a different perspective on the part of gun-violence scholarship. Details: S.L., 2018. 15p. Source: Internet Resource: January 18, 2019 at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3138902 Year: 2018 Country: United States URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323953045_Preventing_or_Fomenting_Crime_A_Contribution_to_the_Lott_Donohue_Debate Shelf Number: 154240 Keywords: Crime Rates Fatal Violence Firearm Gun Rights Gun Violence Guns Handguns Homicides John Donohue John Lott Right-to-Carry |