@article{ref1,
title="New evidence on the impact of concealed carry weapon laws on crime",
journal="International review of law and economics",
year="2016",
author="Barati, Mehdi",
volume="47",
number="",
pages="76-83",
abstract="For more than a decade, there has been an academic debate over the deterrence effect of concealed carry weapon (shall issue) laws. However, all previous studies do not consider the types of gun-carry laws in place prior to the adoption of &quot;shall issue&quot; laws. Using difference-in-difference methodology, findings of this study imply that considering the type of regulations that states had prior to passing &quot;shall issue&quot; laws matters and &quot;shall issue&quot; laws do have a deterrence effect under certain circumstances. Adopting &quot;shall issue&quot; laws only reduces the crime rate in states with &quot;no issue&quot; laws in place, and &quot;shall issue&quot; laws are redundant to &quot;may issue&quot; (restricted concealed carry) laws in terms of crime reduction. (C) 2016 Published by Elsevier Inc.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0144-8188",
doi="10.1016/j.irle.2016.05.011",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.irle.2016.05.011"
}