Do more guns lead to more crime? Understanding the role of illegal firearms

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• 作者：Umair Khalil ^{umair.khalil@mail.wvu.edu}
• 关键词：K42 ; C23 ; K14
• 刊名：Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：133
• 期：Complete
• 页码：342-361
• 全文大小：862 K
• 卷排序：133

文摘

Analyzes how flows of illegal firearms affect crime rates in the US. Uses novel proxy for illegal firearms: number of firearms reported stolen. Results show strong impacts on homicides, aggravated assaults, and robberies. Various falsification tests find no evidence of spurious relationship undermining inference. Potential cost savings of 275,000 per recovered firearm for high crime cities, like Detroit.