Home alone: Schooling and the effect of child access prevention laws on juvenile firearm-related homicide

IF 2.1 4区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Economics Letters Pub Date : 2025-06-14 DOI:10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112417

Paul Niekamp, Lyndsey Ketterling

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Abstract

How do the effects of Child Access Prevention (CAP) laws interact with juvenile supervision? Previous work finds that CAP laws reduce juvenile firearm-related homicide. However, little is known about the interacting role of child supervision and schooling. Using monthly data from the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports, we estimate the heterogeneous effects of CAP laws across variation in juvenile unsupervised time induced by school breaks. Staggered difference-in-differences estimates indicate that CAP laws, particularly negligent storage laws, have a greater effect during school breaks when juveniles are less incapacitated. Analysis using variation in school closure timing for summer break confirms this interaction, demonstrating that the effect of CAP laws, designed to penalize unsupervised juvenile access to firearms, peaks when school incapacitation is lowest.

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独自在家：学校教育和儿童接触预防法对青少年涉枪杀人的影响

儿童接触预防法（CAP）的效果如何与青少年监督相互作用？先前的研究发现，CAP法律减少了青少年涉枪杀人。然而，人们对儿童监督和学校教育的相互作用知之甚少。利用美国联邦调查局（FBI）《凶杀案补充报告》（Supplementary Homicide Reports）的月度数据，我们估计了CAP法律在学校假期导致的青少年无人监督时间变化中的异质效应。交错的差异估计表明，CAP法律，特别是过失储存法，在学校休息期间，当青少年的行为能力较弱时，有更大的影响。利用暑假期间学校关闭时间的变化进行的分析证实了这种相互作用，表明旨在惩罚无人监督的青少年获得枪支的CAP法律的效果在学校丧失行为能力最低时达到顶峰。

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Economics Letters ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

3.20

自引率

5.00%

发文量

348

审稿时长

30 days

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