Using the synthetic control method to determine the effects of firearm seizure laws on state-level murder rates

Mark Gius

Applied Economics Letters, 2020, vol. 27, issue 21, 1754-1758

Abstract: The purpose of the present study is to determine the effects of firearm seizure laws on state-level murder rates. Using data for the period 1990–2017 and a synthetic control method, results of the present study suggest that firearm seizure laws resulted in a decline in murder and gun-related murder rates in Connecticut but an increase in gun-related murder rates in Indiana. The present study is significant because it is the first study that uses the synthetic control method to determine the effects of firearm seizure laws on murder rates.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2020.1720903

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