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ArticlePatterns (New York, N.Y.)2022

A spatiotemporal model of firearm ownership in the United States.

Roni Barak-Ventura, Manuel Ruiz Marín, Maurizio Porfiri

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Roni Barak-VenturaDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New York University Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA.
Manuel Ruiz MarínDepartment of Quantitative Methods, Law and Modern Languages, Technical University of Cartagena, Cartagena, 30201 Murcia, Spain.
Maurizio PorfiriDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New York University Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA.

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Abstract

Firearm injury is a major public health crisis in the United States, where more than 200 people sustain a nonfatal firearm injury and more than 100 people die from it every day. To formulate policy that minimizes firearm-related harms, legislators must have access to spatially resolved firearm possession rates. Here, we create a spatiotemporal econometric model that estimates monthly state-level firearm ownership from two cogent proxies (background checks per capita and fraction of suicides committed with a firearm). From calibration on yearly survey data that assess ownership, we find that both proxies have predictive value in estimation of firearm ownership and that interactions between states cannot be neglected. We demonstrate use of the model in the study of relationships between media coverage, mass shootings, and firearm ownership, uncovering causal associations that are masked by the use of the proxies individually.

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firearm ownershipfirearm violencespatial econometricstime series

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PMID36033595
PMCPMC9403408

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