Steven Levitt has postulated that abortion rates are linked to future crime rates:
The logic is simple: unwanted children have an increased risk of growing up to be criminals, and legalized abortion reduces the number of unwanted children. Consequently, legalized abortion lowers crime in the future.
So, what does today’s declining abortion rate mean to crime in the future?






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