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This data looks at the impact of castle-doctrine statutes on violent crime. Data from the FBI Uniform Crime Reports Summary files are combined with information on castle-doctrine/stand-your-ground law impementation in different states.
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A data frame with 19584 rows and 22 variables
Year
After-treatment
state id
Region-quarter fixed effects
justifiable homicide by private citizen count
justifiable homicide by police count
homicide count per 100,000 state population
Region-quarter fixed effects
aggravated assault count per 100,000 state population
burglary count per 100,000 state population
larceny count per 100,000 state population
motor vehicle theft count per 100,000 state population
murder count per 100,000 state population
unemployment rate
% of black male aged 15-24
% of white male aged 15-24
% of black male aged 25-44
% of white male aged 25-44
poverty rate
Logged crime rate
Logged crime rate
Logged crime rate
Logged police presence
Logged income
Logged number of prisoners
Lagged log prisoners
Logged subsidy spending
Logged public welfare spending
Indicators of how many time periods until/since treatment
Population weight
Region-quarter fixed effects
State linear time trends
This data is used in the Difference-in-Differences chapter of Causal Inference: The Mixtape by Cunningham.
Cheng, Cheng, and Mark Hoekstra. 2013. “Does Strengthening Self-Defense Law Deter Crime or Escalate Violence? Evidence from Expansions to Castle Doctrine.” Journal of Human Resources 48 (3): 821–54.
Cunningham. 2021. Causal Inference: The Mixtape. Yale Press. https://mixtape.scunning.com/index.html.
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