Lives Saved or Lives Lost? The Effects of Concealed-Handgun Laws on Crime

American Economic Review

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 468-474

  Dezhbakhsh, Hashem ^a   Rubin, Paul H ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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