role in explaining the observed decline in crime approximately two decades later. Foote and Goetz (2005) challenge the … to abortion exposure), however, the evidence in support of the abortion-crime hypothesis is as strong or stronger than …

respect to incarceration of 0.15, the average RTC state would need to roughly double its prison population to offset the … violent crime when states adopt right-to-carry (RTC) concealed handgun laws. Our preferred panel data regression specification …, unlike the statistical model of Lott and Mustard that had previously been offered as evidence of crime-reducing RTC laws …

We study the opposing deterrent and enabling effects of guns carried by law-abiding citizens on violent crime, using … Violence Archive suggests that defensive gun use (DGU) by crime victims may decrease the probability of their injury or death … commensurate increase in the incidence and lethality of crime. In summary, our analysis supports the conclusion that the widespread …

substantial in that, using a consensus estimate for the elasticity of crime with respect to incarceration of .15, the average RTC … state would have to double its prison population to counteract the RTC-induced increase in violent crime … statistical models by Lott and Mustard (LM) and Moody and Marvell (MM) that had previously been offered as evidence of crime …

We offer evidence that legalized abortion has contributed significantly to recent crime reductions. Crime began to fall … experienced greater crime reductions in the 1990s. In high abortion states, only arrests of those born after abortion legalization … crime …

For over a decade, there has been a spirited academic debate over the impact on crime of laws that grant citizens the … Council (NRC) offered a critical evaluation of the “More Guns, Less Crime” hypothesis using county-level crime data for the … inadequate to conclude that RTC laws increased or decreased crime. One member of the panel thought the NRC's panel data …

Crime Hypothesis, by arguing that some aggregated statistical models that we criticized support their "more guns, less crime …-existing state trends in crime). Indeed, we illustrate that simply dropping the states that adopted concealed carry laws during the … crack epidemic leads to estimates that concealed carry laws strongly increase crime (which underscores the importance of the …

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 …), the evidence strongly supports the hypothesis that legalized abortion reduces crime. We also show that our original …

a solid empirical base for assessing the theoretically anticipated crime drop that would come from drug legalization …. Nonetheless, the authors conclude that given the number of arrests for marijuana possession, and the costs of incarceration and … crime systemic to cocaine criminalization, the current regime is unlikely to be cost-minimizing for either marijuana or …