Right-to-Carry Gun Laws & Their Impact on Violent Crime - Prof. John J. Donohue (Stanford)

Описание: In this episode of the CLE's vlog series, Prof. John J. Donohue (Stanford) discusses the study "Right-to-Carry Laws and Violent Crime: A Comprehensive Assessment Using Panel Data and a State-Level Synthetic Control Analysis" with Prof. Alexander Stremitzer (ETH Zurich).

In their study, John J. Donohue (Stanford), Abhay Aneja (Berkeley) and Kyle D. Weber (Columbia) use indepth state panel data and new statistical techniques to estimate the impact on violent crime when states adopt right-to-carry (RTC) concealed handgun laws. They find that RTC laws increase overall violent crime and that RTC laws are associated with 13–15 percent higher aggregate violent crime rates 10 years after adoption. Using a consensus estimate of the elasticity of crime with respect to incarceration of 0.15, the average RTC state would need to roughly double its prison population to offset the increase in violent crime caused by RTC adoption.

Paper References:
John J. Donohue - Stanford Law School
Abhay Aneja - Berkeley Law
Kyle D. Weber - Columbia University

Right-to-Carry Laws and Violent Crime: A Comprehensive Assessment Using Panel Data and a State-Level Synthetic Control Analysis
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 16(2), p. 198-247 (2019)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f...

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