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The Decision to Carry

The Effect of Crime on Concealed-Carry Applications

Briggs Depew and Isaac D. Swensen
Journal of Human Resources, October 2019, 54 (4) 1121-1153; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.54.4.1016.8287R2
Briggs Depew
Briggs Depew is an associate professor in the in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University and a Research Fellow with the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany, Isaac Swensen is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics at Montana State University.
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Briggs Depew is an associate professor in the in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University and a Research Fellow with the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany, Isaac Swensen is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics at Montana State University.
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vol. 54 no. 4 1121-1153
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https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.54.4.1016.8287R2
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University of Wisconsin Press
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0022-166X
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1548-8004
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  • Received October 1, 2016
  • Accepted February 1, 2018
  • Published online October 25, 2019.

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  2. Isaac D. Swensen (isaac.swensen{at}montana.edu)
  1. Briggs Depew is an associate professor in the in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University and a Research Fellow with the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany, Isaac Swensen is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics at Montana State University.
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