ABORTION AND CRIME: UNWANTED CHILDREN AND OUT‐OF‐WEDLOCK BIRTHS
研究发现堕胎合法化增加了非婚生婴儿数量，并导致谋杀率上升超过7%，每年受害者成本至少增加32亿美元，对犯罪经济学和公共政策研究者有参考价值。
Legalizing abortion can either increase or decrease investments in children’s human capital. This article finds that abortion increases the number of out‐of‐wedlock births. Using data that more directly links the criminal with age when the crime was committed, not age when arrested, and fixing the assumption in previous research that no abortions took place prior to the Roe v. Wade decision in the 45 states affected by that decision, we find consistent significant evidence that legalizing abortions increased murders by over 7%. Linear estimates indicate that legalization increased total annual victimization costs by at least $3.2 billion.