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The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime

John Donohue, Steven Levitt

2000. DOI 10.3386/w8004

Has this study been replicated?

The atlas records 2 reproductions of this study. Recorded outcomes: 1 mixed, 1 failed.

Reproductions

• A Simple Test of Abortion and Crime, Joyce (2009). Review of Economics and Statistics. Outcome recorded: computationally reproducible, robustness challenges. Computational: I first replicate Donohue and Levitt's results for violent and property crime arrest rates. Read from abstract. View paper
• The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime: Comment*, Foote & Goetz (2008). Quarterly Journal of Economics. Outcome recorded: computational issues, robustness challenges. Computational: First, there is a coding mistake in the concluding regressions, which identify abortion's effect on crime by comparing the experiences of different age cohorts within the same state and year. Read from abstract. View paper

Cite this record

Donohue, J., & Levitt, S. (2000). The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime (, Ed.). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w8004

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