作者
Wang‐Sheng Lee, Sandy Suardi
发表日期
2010/1
期刊
Contemporary Economic Policy
卷号
28
期号
1
页码范围
65-79
出版商
Blackwell Publishing Inc
简介
The 1996‐1997 National Firearms Agreement (NFA) in Australia introduced strict gun laws, primarily as a reaction to the mass shooting in Port Arthur, Tasmania, in 1996, where 35 people were killed. Despite the fact that several researchers using the same data have examined the impact of the NFA on firearm deaths, a consensus does not appear to have been reached. In this paper, we reanalyze the same data on firearm deaths used in previous research, using tests for unknown structural breaks as a means to identifying impacts of the NFA. The results of these tests suggest that the NFA did not have any large effects on reducing firearm homicide or suicide rates. (JEL C22, K19)
学术搜索中的文章
WS Lee, S Suardi - Contemporary Economic Policy, 2010