Between 1973 and 2003, abortion providers in the United States were the targets of over 300 acts of extreme violence …. Using unique data on attacks and on abortions, abortion providers, and births, we examine how anti-abortion violence has … find that clinic violence reduces abortion services in targeted areas. Once travel is taken into account, however, the …

performed in New York State from 1971-1975 to analyze the impact of legalized abortion in New York on abortion and birth rates … of non-residents. We estimate that abortion rates declined by 12.0 percent for every hundred miles a woman lived from New … York in the years before Roe. If Roe were overturned average travel distance to the nearest abortion provider would …

Ten years have passed since John Donohue and Steven Levitt initially proposed that legalized abortion played a major … of age-specific crime rates are inconsistent with a large cohort affect following the legalization of abortion …-specific arrest and homicide rates regressed on lagged abortion rates in the 1970s or indicators of abortion legalization in 1970 and …

doubled since 1988. Congress is currently considering legislation that would further limit access to abortion for minors who … the impact of such abortion restrictions, mainly due to methodological limitations caused by the inability to measure … that these limitations led researchers to overestimate the decline in minors' abortion rate, underestimate the increase in …

The association between legalized abortion and crime remains a contentious finding with major implications for social …-specific arrests and homicides on cohort-specific abortion rates. I find that the coefficient on the abortion rate in a regression of … convincing test of abortion and crime should be based on an exogenous change in abortion that had a demonstrable effect on …

The inverse relationship between abortion and crime has spurred new research and much controversy. If the relationship … is causal, then polices that increased abortion have generated enormous external benefits from reduced crime. In previous … analyses intended to address criticisms of my earlier work. First, I examine closely the effects of changes in abortion rates …

abortion legislation as an instrument for fertility. We find a large negative effect of the fertility rate on female labor …

legalized abortion. With monthly data on the number of births to white and black adolescents from January, 1963 to December … liberalization of the New York State abortion law in 1970. We found the level of births to black adolescents living in New York City … births between 1970 and 1971 were applied to the forecasted number of monthly births in 1988 and 1989. If legal abortion had …

The introduction of legalized abortion in the early 1970s led to dramatic changes in fertility behavior. Some research … controversial. In this paper, we provide a framework for understanding the mechanisms through which abortion access affects cohort …-run impact on cohort characteristics. Our results provide convincing evidence that abortion legalization altered young adult …

The 1966 abolition and 1989 legalization of abortion in Romania immediately doubled and decreased by about a third the … number of births per month, respectively. To isolate the link between abortion access and crime while abstracting from cohort … and general equilibrium effects, we compare birth month cohorts on either side of the abortion regime. For both the …