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September 11, 2007
The murder trends of prohibition
As a continuation to my previous post on John Lott's work I found the image below.
The upward trends appear to be well in place before the policies take hold, but the duration and drop off with policy repeal seems to fit pretty well.
Posted by djdamico at September 11, 2007 6:33 PM
Comments
Not even one control variable? Totally weak.
Posted by: Jason Br. at September 11, 2007 9:18 PM
The color scheme matched the addiction. I couldn't resist.
Posted by: Daniel J. D'Amico at September 11, 2007 11:09 PM
Some of the upward trend before national prohibition was probably due to individual states passing prohibition laws on their own.
Posted by: John Lott at September 12, 2007 11:05 PM