Date of Award

2022

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

M.A.

Department

Economics

First Advisor

Markus P. A. Schneider

Second Advisor

Juan-Carlos Lopez

Third Advisor

Robert Urquhart

Fourth Advisor

Eric Boschmann

Keywords

Economics, Gun violence, Mass shootings, Socioeconomics

Abstract

This paper is an examination and investigation of the relationship between socioeconomic factors and mass shootings. The objective of this paper was to see if economic policy making could be an effective tool for reducing the level of mass gun violence that America has been experiencing. This paper highlights the known relationship between violent crime and economics and tries to bridge that connection to mass shootings specifically through literature review and econometric testing. The ultimate takeaway from this paper’s results and analysis is the need for a universal definition and governing body for data on mass shootings in order to allow the academic community to understand mass shootings better. The econometric results of this paper are not as statistically significant as other papers in the academic community, but the results provide support and evidence for a relationship between socioeconomic factors and mass shootings, and the results carry economic importance, even if they lack statistical significance.

Publication Statement

Copyright is held by the author. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.

Provenance

Received from ProQuest

Rights holder

Taylor Petkovich

File size

77 pgs

File format

application/pdf

Language

en

Discipline

Economics

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