{"id":15713,"date":"2018-02-26T11:50:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T16:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/?p=15713"},"modified":"2018-03-05T09:45:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T14:45:20","slug":"dr-david-vitt-wins-best-conference-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/2018\/02\/26\/dr-david-vitt-wins-best-conference-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. David Vitt Wins &#8220;Best Conference Paper&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15715\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15715\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-15715 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/02\/Dr.-David-Vitt-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. David Vitt\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15715\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. David Vitt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dr. David Vitt, assistant professor of economics, won &#8220;Best Conference Paper&#8221; at the 55<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Meeting of the Academy of Economics and Finance, held recently in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>The co-authored paper was based on Dr. Vitt&#8217;s research on the social costs of gun ownership.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the paper, we provide evidence of a causal relationship between the availability of guns and the rate of firearms suicide,&#8221; Dr. Vitt said. &#8220;We find that a 10% increase in gun ownership within a state causes a 3% increase in firearm suicides that would not have otherwise occurred.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. David Vitt, assistant professor of economics, won &#8220;Best Conference Paper&#8221; at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Economics and Finance, held recently in Houston. The co-authored paper was based on Dr. Vitt&#8217;s research on the social costs of gun ownership. &#8220;In the paper, we provide evidence of a causal relationship between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":15715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15716,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15713\/revisions\/15716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}