Does the liberal permitting of concealed handguns deter violent crime? We propose a dynamic estimator that addresses the time-varying effects estimated by differences-in-differences estimators and reconcile contradictory results in the literature. Our estimator...
Youth violence, particularly among young black males in urban areas, increased radically in the late 1980s and early 1990s and then began to fall. One explanation for this has been the expansion of crack markets in the 1980s; to the degree that increased gun access...