%0 Journal Article
%T Impact of the Brady act on homicide and suicide rates (Letter)
%J JAMA journal of the American Medical Association
%D 2000
%A Cook, Philip J.
%A Ludwig, J.
%V 284
%N 21
%P 2718-2721
%X Dr Lott's econometric suggestions are problematic. It is well known that arrest rates have a spurious negative correlation with the crime rate, since the latter constitutes the denominator of the former.1 Introducing an "independent" variable that is co-determined with the dependent variable will generally bias all coefficient estimates. DOI 10.1001/jama.284.21.2717
%G en
%I American Medical Association
%@ 0098-7484
%U http://dx.doi.org/