Yet another refutation of the more guns, less crime hypothesis - With some help from Moody and Marvell

Econ Journal Watch

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 35-59

  Ayres, Ian ^a   Donohue III, John J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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