Testing the Perturbation Sensitivity of Abortion-Crime Regressions

The hypothesis that the legalisation of abortion contributed significantly to the reduction of crime in the United States in 1990s is one of the most prominent ideas from the recent “economics-made-fun” movement sparked by the book Freakonomics. This paper expands on the existing literature about th...

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Main Authors: Michał Brzeziński, Maria Halber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw 2012-06-01
Series:Contemporary Economics
Online Access:http://ce.vizja.pl/en/download-pdf/id/241