How do right-to-carry laws affect crime rates? Coping with ambiguity using bounded-variation assumptions

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 232-244

  Manski, Charles F ^a   Pepper, John V ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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EID: 85044163441     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_00689     Document Type: Article

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