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Joyce, Ted - 2001

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 …

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Further Tests of Abortion and Crime : A Response to Donohue and Levitt (2001,2004, 2006)

Joyce, Theodore J. - 2006

The association between legalized abortion and crime remains a contentious finding with major implications for social policy. In this paper, I replicate analyses of Donohue and Levitt (2001, 2004, 2006) in which they regress age-specific arrests and homicides on cohort-specific abortion rates. I...

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Abortion and Selection

Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans - 2006

-run impact on cohort characteristics. Our results provide convincing evidence that abortion legalization altered young adult …

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Abortion Legalization and Lifecycle Fertility

Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans - 2004

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 …

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Further Tests of Abortion and Crime

Joyce, Ted - 2004

crime, crime should have fallen sharply as these post-legalization cohorts reached their late teens and early 20s, the peak … legalized abortion on crime should have been much larger for blacks than whites, since the effect of legalization of abortion on … compare changes in homicide rates before and after legalization of abortion, within states, by single year of age. The …

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Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime : A Reply to Joyce

Donohue, John J, III. - 2003

access to abortion, rather than simply de jure legalization, is a critical determinant of the extent of the crime reduction …

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Abortion as Insurance

Levine, Phillip B. - 2002

This paper views abortion access as an insurance policy that protects women from unwanted pregnancies. Within this framework, we present a theoretical model where greater access provides value in the form of insurance against unwanted births and also reduces the incentive to avoid pregnancy....

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The Deregularization of Land Titles

Galiani, Sebastian - 2016

In the last years, several countries implemented policy interventions to entitle urban squatters, encouraged by the results of studies showing large welfare gains from entitlement. We study a natural experiment in the allocation of land titles to very poor families in a suburban area of Buenos...

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Does Legalization Reduce Black Market Activity? Evidence from a Global Ivory Experiment and Elephant Poaching Data

Hsiang, Solomon - 2016

predictions. Here we evaluate the first major global legalization experiment in an internationally banned market, where a … effects than displacement of illegal production in some global black markets, implying that partial legalization of banned …

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Informal Labor and the Efficiency Cost of Social Programs : Evidence from the Brazilian Unemployment Insurance Program

Gerard, François - 2016

It is widely believed that the presence of a large informal sector increases the efficiency cost of social programs - transfer and social insurance programs - in developing countries. We evaluate such claims for policies that have been heavily studied in countries with low informality -...

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