Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz*
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Measurement Error , Legalized Abortion , the Decline in Crime : A Response to Foote
Donohue and Levitt (2001) argue that the legalization of abortion in the United States in the 1970s played an important role in explaining the observed decline in crime approximately two decades later. Foote and Goetz (2005) challenge the results presented in one of the tables in that original paper. In this reply, we regretfully acknowledge the omission of state-year interactions in the publis...
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عنوان ژورنال: Quarterly Journal of Economics
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0033-5533,1531-4650
DOI: 10.1162/qjec.2008.123.1.425