Foote, Christopher L.; Goetz, Christopher F. - In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics 123 (2008) 1, pp. 407-423
This comment makes three observations about Donohue and Levitt's paper on abortion and crime (Quarterly Journal of Economics 119(1) (2001), 249-275). First, there is a coding mistake in the concluding regressions, which identify abortion's effect on crime by comparing the experiences of...