New economic research resurfaces debate about the link between legalized abortion and crime reduction
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.
In the 2001 paper, they found that legalized abortion appeared to account for up to half of the drop in rates of violent crime and property crime to that point. They also predicted crime would fall an additional 20% over the next two decades. Levitt featured the research in the 2005 bestseller Freakonomics. The new paper also looks at violent crime and property crime.....
https://journalistsresource.org/stud...onohue-levitt/
Accepted academic consensus now, I'm afraid. Has been accepted since their first paper in 2001 and this latest research on the post-2001 period backs it up.
If you hadn't spent a decade sticking pins into your Rambo voodoo doll, you might have had some more time for a little light research.
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
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