Does the disclosure of gun ownership affect crime? Evidence from New York
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Tannenbaum, Daniel I.
署名单位：
University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln
刊物名称：
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
ISSN/ISSBN：
0047-2727
DOI：
10.1016/j.jpubeco.2019.104075
发表日期：
2020
关键词：
摘要：
While the social costs of gun violence are high, opponents of gun restrictions argue that gun ownership deters crime and creates a positive externality by increasing unobserved risk to criminals. This paper investigates the evidence for these two deterrence channels, exploiting the sudden disclosure of all handgun permit holders' names and addresses in two New York counties. Permit holders have more crime incidents at their homes relative to non-permit holders in the baseline, which is not driven by selection into neighborhoods. I find little evidence in favor of direct deterrence, and little evidence of peer deterrence. Instead, I find that victimization is associated with a higher likelihood of future gun ownership. (C) 2019 The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V.
来源URL：