Have U.S. Gun Buyback Programs Misfired?

Ferrazares, Toshio; Sabia, Joseph J.; Anderson, D. Mark

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“…The most comprehensive study of GBPs in the United States was conducted by Ferrazares et al. (2021). This study, which also used an synthetic control method (SCM) approach, focused on National Incident Reporting System data from 1995 to 2015 to study gun buybacks in the United States.…”

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The effect of gun buy‐back law reform on homicides and suicides in Australia

Duenow,

Connelly

2023

Health Economics

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In this paper we use the synthetic control method (SCM) to estimate the causal effects of a national legislative reform accompanied by mandatory gun buy‐backs in Australia on both suicide and homicide rates. Using a rich international dataset, we are able to separate not only these two death types, but also to distinguish deaths by firearm and by other means, thereby enabling us to test substitution‐of‐means hypotheses. Specifically, we apply the SCM to determine whether any reductions in firearm‐related death rates where wholly or partly offset by increases in the use of other means (e.g., bladed weapons, poisons) to commit suicides and perpetrate homicides. Our findings show that these gun control policies substantially reduced both homicides and suicides by firearm, but also some evidence of other‐means substitution.

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“…The authors therefore conclude that “…U.S. GBPs have been ineffective at deterring gun crime, firearm‐related homicides, or firearm‐related suicides in the short‐ or long‐run” (Ferrazares et al., 2021, p. 22).…”

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The effect of gun buy‐back law reform on homicides and suicides in Australia

Duenow,

Connelly

2023

Health Economics

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“…We are interested in recovering the causal effect of firearms on outcomes like deaths and crimes. While other papers make use of more modern techniques in causal inference (Card, 2022;Imbens, 2022) such as difference-in-differences in Donohue et al (2022) and Ferrazares et al (2022), causal effects in this paper rely on strict exogeneity between our firearms measures and our outcomes after conditioning on unobserved (fixed) effects at the geographic level (Wooldridge, 2010). These assumptions are similar to papers in this literature like Duggan (2001), Cook and Ludwig (2006) and Khalil (2017), who also rely on variation in firearms ownership across time and geography.…”

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“…This is particularly true in the Canadian context which has strong guns regulations relative to other contexts. Previous literature suggests a null relationship from legal firearms to crimes (Khalil (2017) in the US) as well as a null relationship between (modest) volunteer firearms buybacks and crimes (Ferrazares et al (2022) in the US). Notes: Depression is likely to affect both illegal gun users and legal gun users, though the concern should be dampened by firearms regulation (as suggested by the red and dashed edge with a question mark over the edge's center).…”

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“…Khalil (2017) finds crimes are most likely being driven by illicit market guns and not by legally owned firearms in the United States. Also in the United States, Ferrazares et al (2022) find (modest) volunteer firearms buybacks are unrelated to crimes in a city. On the contrary, Donohue et al (2022) finds increasing crimes laws due to "Right-to-Carry" laws.…”

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Guns. Civilian ownership of firearms is a contentious political issue. We use national measures of firearm licenses and the total number of registered and restricted firearms collected by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to revisit the relationships guns may have with homicides, suicides, and crime. Using fixed effects models at different geographic levels, we estimate the impacts of guns on deaths, suicides, and firearms-related crimes for urban Canada between 2013 and 2019. We find that increasing other-restricted guns (neither rifles nor handguns) by about 50 (per 100, 000) increases firearms-related deaths by about 0.1 (per 100, 000). Other-restricted guns are also increasing firearms-related deaths whose intent are classified as assaults or self-harms. Licenses are generally unrelated to the different firearms-related deaths. Effects of different firearms types and different licenses on firearms-related crimes are heterogeneous based on the different crimes considered. Many of our coefficient estimates are small in magnitude, suggesting large changes in guns or licenses in a heavily-related, Canadian context, would be necessary to reduce firearms-related deaths.COVID-19 and Labour Markets. In this paper, we study the effect of COVID-19 on the labour market and reported mental health of Canadians. To better I thank Tammy Schirle and Paul Peters for reading my thesis and their valuable comments.I am appreciative for the support from Carleton University throughout my time as a Ph.D. student.The Economics Department's staff, fellow students and faculty, filled me with camaraderie for which I am grateful.Dawn, Allison and Sabrina were a constant when I frequented the department. Our conversations were always a welcomed break from economics.Matt Strathearn welcomed me into the department through his generosity, be it his time or a coffee, and helped me get through the challenges with moving to a new city. Josh Brault and Florian Richard greatly brought me up to speed with all things "being an economist;" your peer effects were contagious. Debora Loccisano provided unbiased critiques of my carbonara. My friendship with Casey Pender was built on an academic foundation of loud disagreements over outrageous models and AeroPress-ed coffee; I look forward to more of that in the future.Conversations with Frances Woolley, Abel Brodeur, Thomas Russell, Jevan Cherniwchan and Chris Worswick, helped me become a better economist. While hard to see on observables, rest assured that your comments live in my head rentfree. Pat Coe was a welcomed bother who often guided me out of trouble and for whom I owe at least one case of beer.LP, your guidance throughout my Ph.D. research was indispensable. I admire the amount of time you devoted to me and your patience when faced with my stubbornness. I see myself developing into the kind of mentor that you were to me.Matt, I appreciate all that you have done for me. Beyond your professional support and mentorship, you have been an excellent friend. I am lucky to have had your help ...

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Have U.S. Gun Buyback Programs Misfired?

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References 42 publications

The effect of gun buy‐back law reform on homicides and suicides in Australia

The effect of gun buy‐back law reform on homicides and suicides in Australia

Four Papers in Empirical Economics

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