A Panel-based Proxy for Gun Prevalence in the US

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Titel: A Panel-based Proxy for Gun Prevalence in the US

Beteiligte: Cerqueira, Daniel [VerfasserIn]; Coelho, Danilo Santa Cruz [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]; Donohue, John J. [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]; Fernandes, Marcelo [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]; Pinto, Jony Arrais, Jr [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]

Körperschaft: National Bureau of Economic Research

Erschienen: Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource; illustrations (black and white)

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.3386/w25530

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Schlagwörter: 1995-2004 ; Suizid ; Waffe ; Diskrete Entscheidung ; Panel ; USA

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Beschreibung: There is a consensus that the proportion of suicides committed with a firearm is the best proxy for gun ownership prevalence. Cerqueira et al. (2108) exploit the socioeconomic characteristics of suicide victims in order to develop a new and more refined proxy. It is based on the fixed effects of the victim's place of residence estimated from a discrete choice model for the likelihood of committing suicide with gun. We empirically assess this new indicator using gun ownership data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and suicide registers of the US National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) from 1995 through 2004. We demonstrate that this new gun proxy provides significant gains in correlation with the percentage of households with firearms

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