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…lead them. Does the possibility that abortion reduces crime raise uncomfortable questions? Of course it does. But Levitt believes that if we are to have an honest conversation about things…
…lead them. Does the possibility that abortion reduces crime raise uncomfortable questions? Of course it does. But Levitt believes that if we are to have an honest conversation about things…
Steve and producer Morgan Levey look back at the first 100 episodes of the podcast, including surprising answers, spectacular explanations, and listeners who heard the show and changed their lives….
…men are responsible for more crime and more violent crime than women—and young unmarried men are far more likely to commit crimes like murder than married men of the same…
…the abortion-crime stuff) and Justin Wolfers (an economist at Wharton). In the paper, Donohue and Wolfers provide a devastating critique of the existing studies, including the ones cited by Rubin…
…papers from different authors. I noted he quoted some ideals from “The Changing Relationship Between Income and Crime Victimization” (specifically how poor people are now more likely to be assaulted…
Video One of our old blog posts — about a French political scientist’s argument that playing sports may make young men more likely to become criminals — has now been…
…models that are based on very questionable practices that could very well be abused for malicious activities and conducting cyber-crime. In fact, we found evidence that this kind of abuse…
Beyond the immediate casualties, school shootings have costs — for survivors, and for the rest of us….
An East Baltimore citizen suggests a freaky explanation for recent violence in the city: “Check the date they cut off free cable, and watch the next day the murder rates…
…for anyone who uses a computer. He also plainly thinks like an economist: search below for “crime pays” to see his sober assessment of why it’s better to earn a…
…from appearing in the same issue of the journal, the lawsuit said. Lott’s books include “More Guns, Less Crime: Analyzing Crime and Gun Control Laws,” published in 1998. Levitt won…
The next chapter in the adventures of Dubner and Levitt has begun. Listen to a preview of what’s to come for the fall season of Freakonomics Radio….
…go up in the spring and summer months (hibernation?). Hate crimes against whites do occur, though they make up only one-fourth as much as anti-black crimes; the hate crimes against…
…and gives them access to technologies such as ultrasound, parents are making sure that at least one of their children is a boy. As a result, sex-selective abortion has left…
Dubner and Levitt talk about circadian rhythms, gay marriage, autism, and whether “pay what you want” is everything it’s cracked up to be.
An expert on urban economics and co-author of the new book Survival of the City, Ed says cities have faced far worse than Covid. Steve talks with the Harvard professor…
It used to be at the center of our conversations about politics and society. Scott Hershovitz (author of Nasty, Brutish, and Short) argues that philosophy still has a lot to…
It used to be at the center of our conversations about politics and society. Scott Hershovitz is the author of Nasty, Brutish, and Short, in which he argues that philosophy…
What makes normal people do terrible things? Are there really bad apples — or just bad barrels? And how should you deal with a nefarious next-door neighbor?…
(Photo: Coleen Whitfield) Yes, it could all go up in smoke — legal challenges, including from the Federal government, and all that — but among the interesting developments from last…
The simplicity of life back then is appealing today, as long as you don’t mind Church hegemony, the occasional plague, trial by gossip — and the lack of ibuprofen. (Part…
It isn’t easy to separate the guilty from the innocent, but a clever bit of game theory can help.
…injury death rate, the violent crime rate, and the property crime rate. A conservative estimate is that the federal tax reduced injury deaths by 4.7%, or almost 7,000, in 1991….
Will Angela finally break up with Philadelphia? Is New York really the unhappiest city in the U.S.? And are there trash tornadoes in the metaverse?…
…organized underground economy whose business is financial gain through cyber crime. We can’t pin all the blame for these attacks on organized crime, however; nation-states have also been implicated in…
…serious rewards — for tips that help police confiscate illegal guns. More people die from gun suicides than homicides in the U.S., but gun crime accounts for most of the…
The “beauty premium” is real, for everyone from babies to NFL quarterbacks.
For nearly a decade, governments have been using behavioral nudges to solve problems — and the strategy is catching on in healthcare, firefighting, and policing. But is that thinking too…
…been a crime against often disreputable financiers was now a crime against the federal government. Anyone foolish enough to knock off imitations of the new currency now faced long jail…
…at “disadvantaged male youth grades 7-10 from high-crime Chicago neighborhoods.” The results of the intervention look promising: Improving the long-term life outcomes of disadvantaged youth remains a top policy priority…
