Gun violence : the real costs / Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig.
In the generation that followed Frederick Douglass, no African American was more prominent, or more outspoken, than Ida B. Wells. Seriously considered as a rival to W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington for race leadership, Wells' career began amidst controversy when she sued a Tennessee rail...
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Table of Contents:
- Gun violence and life in America
- Victimization risks
- How guns matter
- What counts
- Medical costs: gross versus net
- The mythical importance of productivity losses
- Avoidance and prevention
- Willingness-to-pay to reduce gun violence
- Remedies
- Appendix A: Data sources for injury and mortality rates
- Appendix B: Computation of net medical cost estimates
- Appendix C: Computation of productivity losses
- Appendix D: Computation of contingent-valuation and quality-of-life estimates.