Taking Aim: Policy Bundling and Gun Deaths in the United States

• In Event: Crime, Policy, and Policing

Brief Overview

We examine whether the design of state firearm law portfolios matters beyond the effect of individual laws. By introducing policy bundling, we test if concentrating within mechanisms or diversifying across them shapes mortality outcomes.

Authors

• Takuma Iwasaki, Stanford University

• Eric Alexander Baldwin, Stanford University

• John J. Donohue, Stanford University