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Originally Posted by GGG
There was a later analysis of the data from another economist that found lead exposure (gasoline and paint) was also a significant independent contributing affect.
I find your post a little troubling because the Levitt research did not consider race at all but the way you presented your two points flowing together appears to imply that aborting black babies lowers crime which is not what the study has shown. The research just showed that abortion legalization was highly correlated with a crime reduction years later. It made no comment on race. It was discussing unwantedness.
https://www.nber.org/digest/may08/im...re-adult-crime
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/abo...ime-revisited/
The podcast transcript above is really interesting because the affect has gotten stronger in the last 20 years than in the first 20. Interestingly if this decisions allows states to ban abortions we should see a crime increase is the states that do relative to the states that don’t in about 15 - 20 years |
Violent crime rates have fallen everywhere in the western world, the lack of back ground lead exposure in new born babies is a leading theoretical reason, conversely it is posited that the reason the Romans were so violent is they used lead water pipes and were massively exposed to lead poisoning