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I think in Freakonomics a study is cited that claims what actually curbed the rise of crime was a change in abortion laws (rather than the "no broken windows" t
by Tichy 16y ago
I think in Freakonomics a study is cited that claims what actually curbed the rise of crime was a change in abortion laws (rather than the "no broken windows" theory). Not sure if that was one of the things in Freakonomics that was later shown to be false, though.
- primodemus 16y agoyes it has been disputed. See: http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113314261192407815-HLjarwtM95Erz45QPP0pDWul8rc_20061127.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113314261192407815-HL... and http://www.economist.com/node/5246700?story_id=5246700 http://www.economist.com/node/5246700?story_id=5246700
- b_emery 16y agoThanks for those. The dispute has an interesting source: "In other words, Messrs Donohue and Levitt did not run the test they thought they had—an “inadvertent but serious computer programming error”, according to Messrs Foote and Goetz"