Deterrence Effect of the Stand Your Ground Law on Crime in East U.S. States
Abstract: What is the deterrence effect of the Stand Your Ground (SYG) Law on violent crime rate? This paper presents evidence on this question using annual county level crime rate for central MSA counties. With an innovative combination of synthetic matching method and DID identification strategy, this paper finds that SYG law significantly decreases the violent crime rate by around 3.5%. The result is robust to different time period and sub sample selection.
Keywords: Stand Your Ground law, Violent crime rate, Synthetic matching method
JEL K14
Deterrence Effect of Stand Your Ground Law on Crime in East US States
Abstract: What is the deterrence effect of the Stand Your Ground (SYG) Law on violent crime rate? This paper presents evidence on this question using annual county level crime rate for central MSA counties. With an innovative combination of synthetic matching method and DID identification strategy, this paper finds that SYG law significantly decreases the violent crime rate by around 3.5%. The result is robust to different time period and sub sample selection.
Keywords: Stand Your Ground law, Violent crime rate, Synthetic matching method
JEL K14
Deterrence Effect of Stand Your Ground Law on Crime in East US States
Abstract: What is the deterrence effect of the Stand Your Ground (SYG) Law on violent crime rate? This paper presents evidence on this question using annual county level crime rate for central MSA counties. With an innovative combination of synthetic matching method and DID identification strategy, this paper finds that SYG law significantly decreases the violent crime rate by around 3.5%. The result is robust to different time period and sub sample selection.
Keywords: Stand Your Ground law, Violent crime rate, Synthetic matching method
JEL K14