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hmm, well I did listen to the above podcast which was recorded in 2019, and they revisited the abortion numbers and still thought it was very relevant. Do you

• bjourne 7y ago
  Donohue and Levitt have, as they say, "dug their heels in." But other researchers have tried and failed to find correlations between abortion and crime in other datasets. See f.e. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40071728?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents https://www.jstor.org/stable/40071728?seq=1#metadata_info_ta... and https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9401/e8f1a53aa4437beed139ec2b2f1741f44be3.pdf https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9401/e8f1a53aa4437beed139ec... Other researchers have focused on Donohue and Levitt's study itself and found methodological flaws. See https://www.nber.org/papers/w15098.pdf https://www.nber.org/papers/w15098.pdf and https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=866864 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=866864: "We revisit that paper, showing that the actual implementation of DL's statistical test in their paper differed from what was described. (Specifically, controls for state-year effects were left out of their regression model.) We show that when DL's key test is run as described and augmented with state-level population data, evidence for higher per capita criminal propensities among the youths who would have developed, had they not been aborted as fetuses, vanishes."