image: An infographic depicting results from Phillip B. Levine and Robin McKnight, who found that searches related to guns, gun sales, and accidental deaths related to firearms all spiked significantly following the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 8, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by P.B. Levine at Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA, and colleagues was titled, "Firearms and accidental deaths: Evidence from the aftermath of the Sandy Hook school shooting." view more
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Article #22: "Firearms and accidental deaths: Evidence from the aftermath of the Sandy Hook school shooting," by P.B. Levine; R. McKnight at Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA; P.B. Levine; R. McKnight at National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA.
Contact: Phillip Levine at +1-781-283-2162 (phone), or plevine@wellesley.edu (email). Robin McKnight at +1-781-283-2153 (phone), or robin.mcknight@wellesley.edu (email).
Note: This paper will be available for free when the embargo lifts at http://www.sciencemag.org.
Visual: A related visual is available.
Article #5: "Saving lives by regulating guns: Evidence for policy," by P.J. Cook at Duke University in Durham, NC; J.J. Donohue at Stanford Law School in Stanford, CA.
Contact: Philip J. Cook at +1-919-613-7360 (office), +1-919-260-4338 (phone on 7 December), or pcook@duke.edu (email). John J. Donohue at donohue@law.stanford.edu (email).
DOI Information: Reporters wishing to link to this paper's abstract on sciencemag.org can use the following URL: http://science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi/10.1126/science.aar3067
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Podcast: A segment of Science's weekly podcast with Philip Cook, related to this research, will be available when the embargo lifts at http://traffic.libsyn.com/sciencemag/SciencePodcast_171208.mp3. Please see the note below for information about using these broadcasts with appropriate attribution.
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