Research in this area has often consisted of cross-sectional studies examining how firearm outcomes differ in a particular year across states with different policies.... Therefore, as part of the Gun Policy in America initiative, RAND developed a longitudinal data set of state firearm laws that is free to the public, including other researchers, to support improved analysis and understanding of the effects of various laws.... Report The Magnitude and Sources of Disagreement Among Gun Policy Ex

Research Questions What does the scientific evidence say about the effects of various firearm policies on societally important outcomes?... In this second edition of an earlier work, the authors add five gun policies to the 13 examined in the original analysis and expand the study time frame to incorporate a larger body of research.... With those adjustments, the authors synthesize the available scientific data on the effects of 18 policies on firearm deaths, violent crime, the gun industry, d

Research Questions How, if at all, do sexual assault risk and sexual harassment risk vary across groups of soldiers in the U.S. Army?... Extending previous RAND analyses, researchers found variation in total sexual assault risk—estimated prevalence of sexual assault—across groups of soldiers.... To evaluate this, researchers calculated adjusted risk: This measures how much higher or lower than expected the risk of sexual assault is for a group of soldiers....