TY - JOUR
T1 - The impact of abortion on crime and crime-related behavior
AU - Hjalmarsson, Randi
AU - Mitrut, Andreea
AU - Pop-Eleches, Cristian
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper would not have been possible without financial support from Vetenskapsrådet (VR), The Swedish Research Council, Grants for Distinguished Young Researchers (Hjalmarsson) and Jan Wallanders and Tom Hedelius Foundation, P2014-0200:1, (Mitrut). We thank Anna Bindler and seminar participants at the University of Gothenburg and Stockholm University (SOFI) for helpful comments
Funding Information:
This paper would not have been possible without financial support from Vetenskapsrådet (VR), The Swedish Research Council, Grants for Distinguished Young Researchers (Hjalmarsson) and Jan Wallanders and Tom Hedelius Foundation, P2014-0200:1, (Mitrut). We thank Anna Bindler and seminar participants at the University of Gothenburg and Stockholm University (SOFI) for helpful comments
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2021/8
Y1 - 2021/8
N2 - 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. Comparing birth month cohorts born on either side of the reform cut-offs allows us to cleanly identify the effect of abortion access on crime. 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 insignificant effects on crime and hospitalization rates. We conclude with a discussion of what our results say about the mechanisms underlying the crime effects of abortion policy.
AB - 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. Comparing birth month cohorts born on either side of the reform cut-offs allows us to cleanly identify the effect of abortion access on crime. 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 insignificant effects on crime and hospitalization rates. We conclude with a discussion of what our results say about the mechanisms underlying the crime effects of abortion policy.
KW - Abortion
KW - Crime
KW - Risky behavior
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2021.104468
DO - 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2021.104468
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85108811177
SN - 0047-2727
VL - 200
JO - Journal of Public Economics
JF - Journal of Public Economics
M1 - 104468
ER -