TITLE: THE IMPACTS OF GUN RESTRICTION ON CRIME RATES

Question : write outline

Outline Bullet points are fine for the main topics

Policy Change/implementation

Outcome of interest

List at least seven academic papers you will discuss with accompanying journals

e.g., The effects of housing assistance on labor supply: Evidence from a voucher lottery American Economic Review (2012)

Paper

If youd like early feedback, you must send me a completed draft by the due date

Paper should include all of the followingJustification of Government Intervention (Think Chapter 1 questions)

Was there a stated objective?

(Later on, discuss if this objective was reached)

Policy background: what it does, who it impacts, when proposed/implemented, recent policy changes, proposed legislation/reforms

Theoretical Model or discussion (i.e., what are the expected outcomes of the policy given established theory)

Survey of literature on policy

Direct effects (intended consequences)

Indirect effects (unintended consequences)

References: at least 10 (at least 7 peer-reviewed economic journals)

Is the literature mixed or do they largely agree?

Critical analysis of estimation in an academic paper

Omitted variable Bias, reverse causality, external validity, etc.

(You dont need to discuss every paper with this level of analysis)

Discussion of a policy change

Costs and Benefits

Direct and indirect effects (e.g., income or substitution effects)

How would you estimate a causal effect? What data would you need? What are some of the complications or challenges you would have to address?

Control and Treatment groups? Is there a discrete change? Etc.

Last paragraph: normative description of policy change (or policy) based on the above positive analysis