A panel-based proxy for gun prevalence in US and Mexico

IF 0.9 3区社会学 Q3 ECONOMICS

International Review of Law and Economics Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI:10.1016/j.irle.2022.106080

Daniel Cerqueira , Danilo Coelho , John J. Donohue III , Marcelo Fernandes , Jony Pinto Junior

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Abstract

There is a consensus that the proportion of suicides committed with a firearm is the best proxy for gun ownership prevalence. Cerqueira et al. (2018) exploit socioeconomic characteristics of suicide victims in order to develop more refined prevalence indicators. They rest on location fixed effects of the victim's place of residence from a discrete-choice model for the likelihood of committing suicide with gun. We empirically assess this new indicator using gun ownership data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and suicide registers of the US National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) from 1995 to 2004. We show that the panel-based proxy variables correlate more with the percentage of households with firearms than the conventional proxy based on the proportion of suicides committed with a firearm does. We further estimate gun prevalence across Mexican states. This is a relevant application because there is no representative household survey in Mexico with information about gun ownership at the state level.

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美国和墨西哥枪支流行率的一个基于小组的代理

人们一致认为，使用枪支自杀的比例是衡量枪支拥有率的最佳指标。Cerqueira等人(2018)利用自杀受害者的社会经济特征，以制定更精确的患病率指标。他们基于一个离散选择模型对持枪自杀可能性的受害者居住地的位置固定效应。我们使用行为风险因素监测系统(BRFSS)和美国国家卫生统计中心(NCHS) 1995年至2004年自杀登记的枪支所有权数据对这一新指标进行了实证评估。我们表明，与基于枪支自杀比例的传统代理变量相比，基于面板的代理变量与拥有枪支的家庭百分比的相关性更强。我们进一步估计了墨西哥各州的枪支流行情况。这是一个相关的应用程序，因为在墨西哥没有代表性的家庭调查，在州一级没有关于枪支所有权的信息。

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International Review of Law and Economics Multiple-

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2.60

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48 days

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