Donohue and Levitt (2001) present a number of analyses that suggest a causal link between legalized abortion and … reductions in crime almost two decades later when the cohorts exposed to legalized abortion reach their peak crime years. Joyce … between abortion and crime is a direct consequence of his decision to focus exclusively on the six-year period 1985-90 without …

Women's Health Organization—and thus for the future of abortion rights.**This work first appeared in the National Law …

This study uses the 1970 state abortion reforms to estimate the effect of teen and out-of-wedlock childbearing on the … state abortion reforms had a negative impact on teen marriage, teen fertility, and teen out- of-wedlock childbearing. The … consequences of abortion reform for white women do not appear to have changed schooling or labor market outcomes. In contrast …

Medically, three distinct terms viz. abortion, miscarriage and premature labour, are used to denote the expulsion of a … foetus at different stages of gestation. Thus a term, abortion, is used only when an ovum is expelled within the first three … pregnancy could be terminated. A compromise which guarantees both protection of foetus as well as the freedom of abortion of a …

Donohue and Levitt (2001) argue that the legalization of abortion in the United States in the 1970s played an important … measure of abortion (e.g. one that takes into account cross-state mobility, or doing a better job of matching dates of birth … to abortion exposure), however, the evidence in support of the abortion-crime hypothesis is as strong or stronger than …

Previous research has convincingly shown that abortion legalization in the early 1970s led to a significant drop in … impact of abortion legalization on both the number of children ever born as well as the distribution of number of children … ever born. Our results indicate that much of the reduction in fertility at the time abortion was legalized was permanent in …

This paper examines the relationship between the legalization of abortion and subsequent decreases in crime. In a … current study, researchers estimate that the legalization of abortion explains over half of the recent decline in national … crime rates. The association is identified by correlating changes in crime with changes in the abortion ratio weighted by …

This paper presents novel empirical evidence on the impact of access to abortion on sex ratios at birth (SRB), excess … availability of sex-selective abortion caused by the legalization of abortion. Our results show that the legalization of abortion … ten more female infants survived for every one hundred that were aborted. Interestingly, we find that while abortion …

We assess whether in utero exposure to legalized abortion in the early 1970's affected individuals' propensities to use … controlled substances as adolescents. We exploit the fact that some states legalized abortion before national legalization in … use varies with state level birth rates and abortion ratios. Overall, our results suggest that legalization lowered …

Previous research suggests that restricting the availability of abortion reduces average birth weight by increasing the … Youth to ask whether restrictions on Medicaid funding of abortion have this effect. We attempt to account for the potential … endogeneity of abortion laws by comparing the effects of liberal statutes to those of court injunctions ordering states to fund …