The social costs of gun ownership
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The social costs of gun ownership
This paper provides new estimates of the effect of household gun prevalence on homicide rates, and infers the marginal external cost of handgun ownership. The estimates utilize a superior proxy for gun prevalence, the percentage of suicides committed with a gun, which we validate. Using countyand state-level panels for 20 years, we estimate the elasticity of homicide with respect to gun prevale...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Economics
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0047-2727
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2005.02.003