Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz
We are grateful to Foote and Goetz for noting that the final table of Donohue and Levitt (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 116 (2001), 379-420) inadvertently omitted state-year interactions. Correcting our mistake does not alter the sign or statistical significance of our estimates, although it does reduce their magnitude. Using a more carefully constructed measure of abortion that better links birth cohorts to abortion exposure (by using abortion data by state of residence rather than of occurrence, by adjusting for cross-state mobility, and by more precisely estimating birth years from age of arrest data), we present new evidence that abortion legalization reduces crime through both a cohort-size and a selection effect. (c) 2008 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology..
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2008
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Authors: | Donohue, John J. ; Levitt, Steven D. |
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics. - MIT Press. - Vol. 123.2008, 1, p. 425-440
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