Levitt’s First B+ Since High School?
…conclusions are often eye-opening (say it ain’t so, Sato!) and sometimes eye-popping (his theory that high abortion rates help reduce crime probably won’t get him invited to the White House…
…conclusions are often eye-opening (say it ain’t so, Sato!) and sometimes eye-popping (his theory that high abortion rates help reduce crime probably won’t get him invited to the White House…
…and me on legalized abortion and crime. I’m not saying these ideas necessarily originated with economists, but that, at a minimum, economists often find themselves on the “wrong” side of…
…some parallels to the idea that legalized abortion in the 1970s helps explain why crime fell in the 1990s. In another paper, Acemoglu and co-authors challenge the conventional wisdom that…
…have gained the greatest traction in the popular/political discussion? — Rick Groves A. There has been a lot of talk about the relationship between legalized abortion and the crime rate….
…abortion of female fetuses in favor of sons — an illegal but widespread practice — means there are more eligible bachelors than potential brides, allowing women and their parents to…
Today, ABC News director of polling and Freakonomics.com guest blogger Gary Langer offers an interesting breakdown of recent poll numbers on a particularly timely topic: Whether a pro-abortion stance by…
…who oppose taking protective steps to reduce risk of climate change. There is no debate, merely theater. Discussing drug policy is like discussing gun control or abortion: facts are irrelevant….
…elsewhere. Maybe you want to know how Levitt first thought of the abortion/crime link, or what kind of blackjack player he is, or how he goes about selecting a bottle…
…about sumo cheating: Spurlock’s is about the black-white baby-name divide, and the black-white divide in general (that’s Roland Fryer below): Jarecki does abortion/crime. Ewing and Grady do pay-for-grades school incentives….
…6) Education Morals/Family values Foreign policy (TIED FOR No. 7) Environment Abortion Social Security Taxes (TIED FOR No. 8) Federal budget deficit Housing/Mortgages Global warming Iran/Situation in Iran Guns/Gun control…
…abortion or to a baby with terrible birth defects. The only silver lining on this terrible result is that the latter test had a false positive rate of 10 percent,…
…of would-be allies in government, suggesting there might be advantages in pressing for new positions on climate change, abortion, or gay marriage. No savvy politician will admit to changing direction…
To all who enjoy this blog, I apologize for the onslaught of comments from Steve Sailer and the various pseudonyms he operates under. Apparently he believes that if he says…
…not cure poverty and a planeload of food will not cure famine . . . How to find the root cause of a problem . . . Revisiting the abortion-crime…
…not cure poverty and a planeload of food will not cure famine . . . How to find the root cause of a problem . . . Revisiting the abortion-crime…
…increased steadily in the past half century. 3. It is more socially acceptable to not have children (through choice or abortion). 4. People are getting married later in life. In…
…with The Things They Carried, Beloved, and The Awakening. “One part of Freakonomics that raised her ire,” reports the Daily Herald, “hypothesizes that legalized abortion could lower the homicide rate.”…
…the inevitable blowback of making such a statement, perhaps he should get in touch with Anthony Bouza, the former police chief of Minnesota who once called abortion “arguably the only…
…one of the main causes of the huge gender gap, along with the more nefarious (and commonly cited) causes like selective abortion, selective infanticide, and various other forms of misogyny….
The debate continues on whether talent matters. American teen birth, abortion and AIDS rate much higher than Dutch, what are they doing right? Coffee and women: first it was less…
…them was Freakonomics. The board member, Leslie Pinney, objected to the various books for various reasons, including pornography, vulgarity, and in the case of Freakonomics, the argument that legalized abortion…
In a podcast called “Misadventures in Baby-Making,” we explored China’s one-child policy as a cause of sex-selective abortion and, therefore, skewed male-female sex rations. A new working paper (abstract; PDF)…
…judge’s decision was more influential than a change in public policy and law enforcement bodies in reducing crime in the U.S. I wish we could apply this “recipe” (allowing abortion…
…Planned Parenthood turned abortion protestors into a fund-raising scheme; a comedian used this same “pledge-a-picket” tactic against the Westboro Baptist Church. Photo: Rep. Keith Ellison I recently ran across an…
On the very first day that our blog was hosted by the New York Times, I wrote a post that generated the most hate mail I’ve gotten since the abortion-crime…
…to have any parents, although he did have a grandma who would yell for him from time to time. It made me think of the unwanted children/abortion argument in Freakonomics….
…of the expected benefits of legalized abortion and crack-related crime is flat. Other demographic shifts are too small to matter on an annual basis. So all in all the factors…
…bringing 10 questions that’ll prompt discussion about the book. Based on the argument that broke out at our last meeting when I merely mentioned the idea behind the abortion/crime bits…
…good friend John Donohue, who has coauthored with Levitt (on abortion), Ayres (on guns), and Wolfers (on the death penalty). There is simply no finer quantitative empiricist in the legal…
…is priceless and cannot be sacrificed no matter what the circumstances (the left wants to abolish the death penalty; the right wants to abolish abortion), politicians of all stripes make…