Estimating the Causal Effect of Gun Prevalence on Homicide Rates: A Local Average Treatment Effect Approach

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Objective This paper uses a “local average treatment effect” (LATE) framework in an attempt to disentangle the separate effects of criminal and noncriminal gun prevalence on violence rates. We first show that a number of previous studies have failed to properly address the problems of endogeneity, p...

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Authors: Kovandzic, Tomislav (Author) ; Schaffer, Mark E. 1959- (Author) ; Kleck, Gary 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2013
In: Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 2013, Volume: 29, Issue: 4, Pages: 477-541
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Keywords:
Endogeneity
Gun levels
Homicide
Crime