An empirical examination of firearm users in Brasilia, DF

This paper relates individuals' characteristics to the probability of possessing firearms: a) inside the home; b) outside the home; and c) inside and outside the home. Extending the literature on the demand for firearms whose focus is on the first trait, we collected survey data on 2,045 random...

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Main Authors: Adolfo Sachsida, André V. Mollick, Mario Jorge Cardoso de Mendonça
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2009-12-01
Series:Economia Aplicada
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-80502009000400004