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By Jens Ludwig, Philip J. Cook
Prior to now 50 years the united states has decreased the dying expense from motor vehicle injuries via one-third, but the speed at which american citizens are killed through gunfire has really elevated. Policymakers have attempted to wrestle gun-related violence and crime in numerous methods, together with enforcing extra critical sentences, proscribing entry and banning convinced versions and designs of weapons. This booklet examines what works through providing empirical reviews of numerous modern regulations. one of the concerns tested are: the connection among the variety of weapons in flow and the suicide expense; the deterrent and "inducement" results of gun possession on residential housebreaking; the effect on household homicides of proscribing gun ownership; and the results of extra permissive gun-carrying legislation. within the evaluate, Ludwig and cook dinner finish that the matter of gun violence in the US isn't really hopeless - certainly, violence charges have declined dramatically over the past decade. persisted good fortune might require a practical mixture of new laws and improved legislations enforcement efforts, guided via ongoing overview supported by means of new and higher information structures.
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This null finding is robust to a variety of methodological adjustments, including a check for omitted variables bias that uses juveniles (who are generally exempt from the federal felon-in-possession charges that make up the bulk of Exile prosecutions) as an additional withincity control group. 85. Pierce and Bowers (1981); Cook (1991). 86. See, for example, Elaine Shannon, “Have Gun? Will Travel,” Time Magazine, August 16, 1999, p. 154; and “Remarks by the President on Project Safe Neighborhood,” White House, Office of the Press Secretary, May 14, 2001.
103 Good empirical research does not necessarily yield definitive results but should serve as an important check on other means by which policymakers form opinions and choose among the available options. 101. Braga and others (2001). 102. Braga and others (2001); Fagan (2002). 103. Take the case of welfare reform. Robert Moffitt observes that “making recommendations for reauthorization is difficult not only for the obvious reason that the goals of the next round of welfare reform are unclear, but also because the evidential base to support specific policy recommendations is weak.
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