Abortion and Crime

I. Donohue, J.J. and S.D. Levitt (2001), “The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime”, Quarterly Journal of Economics 116(2):379-420.

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Original Data Sets

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Updated Data Sets

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II. Donohue, J.J. and S.D. Levitt (2004), “Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce”, Journal of Human Resources 39(1):29-49.

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homicides 15-24

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Table 3 (6 KB)

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This paper was written in response to Ted Joyce’s criticism of Donohue and Levitt (2001) published in the same issue of the JHR:

Joyce, T. (2004), “Did Legalized Abortion Lower Crime?”, Journal of Human Resources 39(1):1-28.

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III. Donohue, J.J. and S.D. Levitt (2006), “Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz (2005)”, Working Paper.

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Data Sets (the following zip file contains all the individual files used)

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Donohue and Levitt (2006)

This paper was written in response to a criticism written by Christopher Foote and Christopher Goetz of the Boston Federal Reserve:

Foote, C.L. and C.F. Goetz (2005), “Testing Economic Hypotheses with State-Level Data: A Comment on Donohue and Levitt (2001)”, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Working Paper No. 05-15.

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