An edition of Guns, drugs and juvenile crime (2003)

Guns, drugs and juvenile crime

evidence from a panel of siblings and twins

Guns, drugs and juvenile crime
H. Naci Mocan, H. Naci Mocan
Guns, drugs and juvenile crime by H. Naci Mocan, H. Naci Mocan
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An edition of Guns, drugs and juvenile crime (2003)

Guns, drugs and juvenile crime

evidence from a panel of siblings and twins

Using a nationally-representative panel data set of U.S. high school students (AddHealth data) that contains a relatively large sample of siblings and twins, the paper investigates the impacts of gun availability at home and individual drug use on robbery, burglary, theft and damaging property for juveniles. Using a variety of fixed-effects models that exploit variations over time, the results show that gun availability at home increases the propensity to committing robbery, burglary and theft by about two percentage points for juveniles but has no impact on damaging property. It is unlikely that gun availability is merely a measure of the unobserved home environment because gun availability does not influence other risky or bad behaviors of juveniles. The results show that having access to guns increases the probability of being cut or stabbed by someone and of someone pulling a knife or gun on the juvenile. Estimates obtained from models that exploit variations over time and between siblings and twins indicate that the median impact of cocaine use on the propensity to commit various types of crimes is 23 percentage points. The impact of using inhalants or other drugs is an increase in the propensity to commit crime by 14 and 18 percentage points, respectively.

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English
Pages
50
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Guns, drugs and juvenile crime: evidence from a panel of siblings and twins
2003, National Bureau of Economic Research
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"July 2003."

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available in PDF from the NBER world wide web site (www.nber.org).

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Cambridge, Mass
Series
NBER working paper series -- no. 9824., Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 9824.

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50 p. ;
Number of pages
50

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OL17615551M
OCLC/WorldCat
52863711

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OL600800W

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