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Abortion and Crime: Unwanted Children and Out-of-Wedlock Births
John R. Lott Jr.
Crime Prevention Research Center
John E Whitley
Crime Prevention Research Center; Institute for Defense Analyses
April 30, 2001
Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 254
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.
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JEL Classification: K4, D13, H11
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Date posted: May 16, 2001
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