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Title: Background Checks and Firearm Registration: How Regulatory Policies Can Affect the Gun Market
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2016
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Abstract: Vast literature exists documenting the history of gun control legislation and recent firearm export, import and firearm manufacture information, but lack of current research exists evaluating the impact of implementing gun-restrictive policies. By utilizing quantitative analytical methods, this paper studies in-depth the effectiveness of expanded background checks in regulating the firearm market and further understanding public behavior when these regulatory policies are expanded or put in place. This research evaluates the relationship between expanded background checks, and differing outcomes of interest, while controlling for various demographic factors including race, employment status, partisan composition (gubernatorial political party in power) and number of simple assaults (without a weapon). By running fixed effects models, this analysis found that an expanded background check was associated with a 1,095 increase in registered machine guns per 100,000 inhabitants (p-value = .817), as well as, a 12.55 decrease in aggravated assaults with a weapon per 100,000 inhabitants (p value = .001) and a 104.9873 decrease in the number of . . .
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Authors: Pelli, Priscilla Alexandra
Institution: Georgetown University
Department: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Yuriy Pylypchuk,
Degree: M.A.
Publisher Location: Washington, DC
Pages: 32
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Crime and Deviance, Other
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