"National Bureau of Economic Research" . . . . . . "The social costs of gun ownership" . "The social costs of gun ownership"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "This paper provides new estimates of the effect of household gun prevalence on homicide rates, and infers the marginal external cost of handgun ownership. The estimates utilize a superior proxy for gun prevalence, the percentage of suicides committed with a gun, which we validate. Using county- and state-level panels for 20 years, we estimate the elasticity of homicide with respect to gun prevalence as between +.1 and +.3. All of the effect of gun prevalence is on gun homicide rates. Under certain reasonable assumptions, the average annual marginal social cost of household gun ownership is in the range $100 to $600." . . . . . . "The Social Costs of Gun Ownership" . "The Social Costs of Gun Ownership"@en . . . . "\"This paper provides new estimates of the effect of household gun prevalence on homicide rates, and infers the marginal external cost of handgun ownership. The estimates utilize a superior proxy for gun prevalence, the percentage of suicides committed with a gun, which we validate. Using county- and state-level panels for 20 years, we estimate the elasticity of homicide with respect to gun prevalence as between +.1 and +.3. All of the effect of gun prevalence is on gun homicide rates. Under certain reasonable assumptions, the average annual marginal social cost of household gun ownership is in the range $100 to $600\"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site."@en . . . . "Schätzung" . . "Soziale Kosten / Kriminalität / Schätzung / USA." . . "Kriminalität" . . "USA" . . "Firearms economics." . . "Waffe" . . "Homicide." . . "Zonder onderwerpscode: economie." . . . . "Models, Economic." . . "Soziale Kosten" . .