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The Impact of Abort...
The Impact of Abortion on Crime and Crime-Related Behavior
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- Hjalmarsson, Randi, 1976 (författare)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik,Department of Economics
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- Mitrut, Andreea, 1977 (författare)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik,Department of Economics
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Pop-Eleches, Cristian (författare)
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- Gothenburg : University of Gothenburg, 2019
- Engelska.
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Serie: Working Papers in Economics (online), 1403-2465
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Abstract
Ämnesord
Stäng
- 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 abolition and legalization of abortion, we find large and significant effects on the level of crime and risky-behavior related hospitalization, but an insignificant effect on crime and hospitalization rates (i.e. when normalizing by the size of the birth month cohort). In other words, the Romanian abortion reforms did affect crime, but all of the effect appears to be driven by cohort size effects rather than selection or unwantedness effects.
Ämnesord
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Nationalekonomi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Economics (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Abortion
- crime
- Risky behavior
Publikations- och innehållstyp
- vet (ämneskategori)
- rap (ämneskategori)