Testing Economic Hypotheses with State-Level Data: A Comment on Donohue and Levitt

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The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime: Comment*

“…The ABORT variable is the ratio of abortions per 1,000 live births that is relevant for a given cohort of young 1. Indeed, this was our first interpretation of these regressions, as discussed in Foote and Goetz (2005). The same interpretation is lent to the total-arrests regressions by DL (2006).…”

“…14 13. Robustness checks in Foote and Goetz (2007) show that our results are not sensitive to the inclusion of DC, an argument in DL's reply to this comment. The working-paper version also shows how division-year interactions are useful in controlling for some omitted variables, as long as the crime-trend proxies are also included.…”

“…Dropping DC from the unweighted regression generates R 2 s of .36 and .42. The full set of regression statistics appears in the Appendix of Foote and Goetz (2007). The working-paper version also includes scatterplots of the relevant data.…”

“…The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors alone and not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve System in general or of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in particular. This comment is a revision of Foote and Goetz (2005). A longer version of this comment is available on the Boston Fed's Web site (Foote and Goetz 2007).…”

“…This comment is a revision of Foote and Goetz (2005). A longer version of this comment is available on the Boston Fed's Web site (Foote and Goetz 2007).…”