Background: The current investigation explores the association between rates of household
firearm ownership and suicide across the 50 states. Prior ecologic research on the …

… David Hemenway received partial support from the Joyce Foundation. … We acknowledge
the contribution of David Meddings of the WHO who provided us the data for this analysis. …

Background Violent death is a serious problem in the United States. Previous research showing
US rates of violent death compared with other high-income countries used data that are …

… the views of Professor David Hemenway on the Kleck-Gertz paper, a reply by Professors
Kleck and Gertz, and the views of Professor Tom Smith on both the Hemenway and Kleck-Gertz …

We use survey data to provide some empirical information about concerns regarding relative
standing. Respondents chose between a world where they have more of a good than …

This article reviews the most commonly cited, representative, empirical studies in the peer-reviewed
literature that directly investigate the association of gun availability and homicide …

In 2005, an average of 46 Americans per day committed suicide with a firearm, accounting
for 53% of all completed suicides. Dr. Matthew Miller and David Hemenway write that the …

Importance Over 30 000 people die annually in the United States from injuries caused by
firearms. Although most firearm laws are enacted by states, whether the laws are associated …

Since the mid-1990s, the US civilian gun stock has grown from approximately 192 million (65
million handguns) to approximately 265 million (113 million handguns). In 2015, gun …

For more than one hundred years, economists have discussed the concept of positional
goods—that the utility conferred by many, perhaps even most, goods depends not only on the …