Abortion and Crime: Unwanted Children and Out-of-Wedlock Births
| dc.contributor.author | Lott, John | |
| dc.contributor.author | Whitley, John | |
| dc.date | 2021-11-25T13:34:56.000 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-26T11:49:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-11-26T11:49:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2001-05-16T00:00:00-07:00 | |
| dc.identifier | lepp_papers/254 | |
| dc.identifier.contextkey | 7228 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/5452 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Abortion may prevent the birth of "unwanted" children, who would have relatively small investments in human capital and a higher probability of crime. On the other hand, some research suggests that legalizing abortion increases out-of-wedlock births and single parent families, which implies the opposite impact on investments in human capital and thus crime. The question is: what is the net impact? We find evidence that legalizing abortion increased murder rates by around about 0.5 to 7 percent. Previous estimates are shown to suffer from not directly linking the cohorts who are committing crime with whether they had been born before or after abortion was legal. | |
| dc.title | Abortion and Crime: Unwanted Children and Out-of-Wedlock Births | |
| dc.source.journaltitle | John M. Olin Center for Studies in Law, Economics, and Public Policy Working Papers | |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2021-11-26T11:49:37Z | |
| dc.identifier.legacycoverpage | https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/lepp_papers/254 | |
| dc.identifier.legacyfulltext | https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1018&context=lepp_papers&unstamped=1 |
