IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/boc/ncon19/8.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

State-level gun policy changes and rate of workplace homicide in the United States

Author

Listed:
  • Erika Sabbath

    (Boston College)

  • Summer Sherburne Hawkins

    (Boston College)

  • Christopher F Baum

    (Boston College)

Abstract

Nearly 40,000 people in the U.S. die from firearm-related causes annually. Of these, about 1% are intentionally shot and killed while at work; work-related homicides account for about 10% of all workplace fatalities. While firearm policies have remained essentially unchanged at the national level, there is greater variation in state-level gun control legislation. Moreover, the gun control landscape between and within states has changed considerably over the past 10 years. Little recent work has focused on determinants or epidemiology of workplace homicide. The purpose of this study is to test whether changes in state-level gun control policies are associated with changes in state-level workplace homicide rates. Our analysis shows that stronger gun-control policies, particularly around concealed carry permitting, background checks, and domestic violence, may be effective means of reducing work-related homicide.

Suggested Citation

  • Erika Sabbath & Summer Sherburne Hawkins & Christopher F Baum, 2020. "State-level gun policy changes and rate of workplace homicide in the United States," Nordic and Baltic Stata Users' Group Meeting 2019 8, Stata Users Group.
    • Handle: RePEc:boc:ncon19:8
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/ncon19/nordic19_sabbath.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Other versions of this item:

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:boc:ncon19:8. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Christopher F Baum (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/stataea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.