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384. Abortion and Crime, Revisited

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The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime

The effect of abortion on crime turned out to be larger than you had predicted. The effects implied by our data are so big that I actually think it will make people more rather than less skeptical about what's going on, he says. "I would hope that we would have published the paper anyway because the thing is if we didn't publish it, someone else would have published it"

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