Plausibly Exogenous - Gun Prevalence (08/15/2021)
LHS Variable
Violence rates
RHS Variable
Gun prevalence
Source of Exogenous Variation
Instrument gun levels with three instruments: subscriptions to outdoor sports magazines, voting preferences in the 1988 Presidential election, and numbers of military veterans
- Kovandzic, Schaffer, and Kleck (2008), “Estimating the Causal Effect of Gun Prevalence on Homicide Rates: A Local Average Treatment Effect Approach”