THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS Vol. CXVI May 2001 Issue 2 THE IMPACT OF LEGALIZED ABORTION ON CRIME* JOHN J. DONOHUE III AND STEVEN D. LEVITT We offer evidence that legalized abortion has contributed signi�cantly to recent crime reductions. Crime began to fall roughly eighteen years after abortion legalization. The �ve states that allowed abortion in 1970 experienced declines earlier than the
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