Having a Gun in the House Doesn’t Make a Woman Safer

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Apologies for the long delay between posts. I was working on getting an article published in the Atlantic, and it got through today!

Read the latest article here: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/02/having-a-gun-in-the-house-doesnt-make-a-woman-safer/284022/

It examines the most recent data on firearms ownership and its effect on females and concludes that women are not made safer by owning a gun in the home.

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Evan DeFilippis is a PhD Student in Organizational Behavior and Psychology at Harvard. His primary research interests involve persuasion, conflict resolution, and behavioral economics. He graduated from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School with a Masters in Public Administration with a focus on Development Economics. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a triple degree in Economics, Political Science, and Psychology. He was the University of Oklahoma's valedictorian in 2012, he is one of the nation's few Harry S. Truman Scholars based on his commitment to public service, and is a David L. Boren Critical Languages scholar.