Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/193192 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11898
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Debate over safe-storage gun regulations has captured public attention in the aftermath of several high-profile shootings committed by minors. Whether these laws actually decrease youth gun violence, however, is an unanswered question. Using data from the FBI's Supplementary Homicide Reports for the period 1985-2013, this study is the first to estimate the relationship between child access prevention (CAP) laws and firearm-related homicides committed by juveniles. Our results suggest that CAP laws are associated with a 19 percent reduction in juvenile firearm-related homicides. The estimated effect is stronger among whites than blacks and is driven by states enforcing the strictest safe-storage standard. We find no evidence that CAP laws are associated with firearm-related homicides committed by adults or with non-firearm-related homicides committed by juveniles, suggesting that the observed relationship between CAP laws and juvenile firearm-related homicides is causal.
Subjects: 
gun control
child access prevention laws
homicides
crime
JEL: 
K4
H7
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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