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Greater access to abortion may have reduced America’s crime rate
"May 24, 2019
"Crime rates in the U.S. have fallen by about half since the early 1990s.
"A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that legalized abortion following the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 accounts for 45% of the decline in crime rates over the past three decades.
"The paper’s authors, Stanford University economist John Donohue and University of Chicago economist Steve Levitt, take new data and run nearly the same model they used in their influential — and controversial — 2001 analysis published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, where they first suggested an association between abortion and crime."
New research linking abortion and crime reduction resurfaces old debate
Is it reasonable to hypothesize fewer children born into an environment that puts them at a higher risk of committing crime will constitute a net gain for society?
It would seem logical to believe unwanted children or those whose parents are unable to support them are likelier to become criminals.
Critics of the theory argue the correlations between births and crime don't account for confounding factors like reduced drug use, demographic changes and population densities.
Legalized abortion and crime effect - Wikipedia
Greater access to abortion may have reduced America’s crime rate
"May 24, 2019
"Crime rates in the U.S. have fallen by about half since the early 1990s.
"A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that legalized abortion following the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 accounts for 45% of the decline in crime rates over the past three decades.
"The paper’s authors, Stanford University economist John Donohue and University of Chicago economist Steve Levitt, take new data and run nearly the same model they used in their influential — and controversial — 2001 analysis published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, where they first suggested an association between abortion and crime."
New research linking abortion and crime reduction resurfaces old debate
Is it reasonable to hypothesize fewer children born into an environment that puts them at a higher risk of committing crime will constitute a net gain for society?
It would seem logical to believe unwanted children or those whose parents are unable to support them are likelier to become criminals.
Critics of the theory argue the correlations between births and crime don't account for confounding factors like reduced drug use, demographic changes and population densities.
Legalized abortion and crime effect - Wikipedia