The social costs of gun ownership
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Author
Contributions
- Ludwig, Jens. - Contributor
- National Bureau of Economic Research. - Contributor
Publication
2004 - National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
13,250 words, Guess
Page Count
53 pages
Identifiers
- OCLC Control Number56609465
- Open LibraryOL17623582M
Classifications
- LCCHB1
Description
"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 county- and state-level panels for 20 years, we estimate the elasticity of homicide with respect to gun prevalence as between +.1 and +.3. All of the effect of gun prevalence is on gun homicide rates. Under certain reasonable assumptions, the average annual marginal social cost of household gun ownership is in the range $100 to $600"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Subjects
Series Statement
- NBER working paper series -- no. 10736.
- Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 10736.
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