TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2000//
TI  - Impact of the Brady act on homicide and suicide rates (Letter)
JO  - JAMA journal of the American Medical Association
A1  - Cook, Philip J.
A1  - Ludwig, J.
SP  - 2718
EP  - 2721
VL  - 284
IS  - 21
N2  - 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
LA  - en
SN  - 0098-7484
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -