An empirical examination of firearm users in Brasilia, DF

Authors

Adolfo Sachsida
Andre V. Mollick, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow
Mario Jorge Cardoso de Mendonca

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-2009

Abstract

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 individuals of Brasília, Brazil, in 2002. The multinominal logit model yields several new results. First, while we do find that a person’s educational level negatively affects the likelihood that an individual will use arms only outside his or her home, education does not affect the probability of an individual possessing a gun only at home, which contrasts sharply with results for the U.S. Second, individuals who own cars and houses have a 2.8% greater probability of keeping guns at home, which may reflect a desire to protect property.

Comments

Original published version available at https://doi.org/10.1590/S1413-80502009000400004

Recommended Citation

Sachsida, Adolfo, André V. Mollick, and Mario Jorge Cardoso de Mendonça. “An Empirical Examination of Firearm Users in Brasilia, DF.” Economia Aplicada 13, no. 4 (December 2009): 425–38. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1413-80502009000400004.

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Publication Title

Economia Aplicada

DOI

10.1590/S1413-80502009000400004