American Enterprise Institute conference on abortion and crime this Tuesday, March 28 in Washington D.C.:

It's going to be an all-star line-up of economists commenting on the Donohue-Levitt theory that legalizing abortion cut crime. It looks pretty technical, but I'll try during my 12 minute presentation to keep it simple.

Abortion Legalization and Crime Rates
Is There a Relationship?
Start:	Tuesday, March 28, 2006 1:00 PM
End:	Tuesday, March 28, 2006 5:00 PM
Location:	Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 Directions to AEI
In 2001, John Donohue of Yale University and Steven Levitt of the University of Chicago published a paper entitled "The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime," in which they argued that legalized abortion in the 1970s significantly contributed to decreased crime in America during the 1990s. The article sparked a fierce controversy which has yet to abate. The controversy further captured public attention when Levitt featured the argument in his bestselling book, Freakonomics. In this AEI event, nearly every economist who has studied whether there is a link between abortion and crime will weigh in on the available empirical evidence, including Professor Donohue and his leading critics. Is there a link between legalized abortion and crime rates? If so, in which direction is it?
12:45 p.m. Registration 1:00 Introduction: Jonathan Klick, AEI and Florida State University 1:10 Panel I Presenters: Chris Foote, Boston Federal Reserve Ted Joyce, Baruch College, CUNY Leo Kahane, California State University 2:10 Discussants: Phillip Levine, Wellesley College Steve Sailer, The American Conservative Moderator: Jonathan Klick, AEI and Florida State University 3:00 Panel II Presenters: John Donohue, Yale Law School John R. Lott Jr., AEI 3:40 Discussants: David Paton, Nottingham University Business School Florenz Plassman, SUNY-Binghamton Moderator: Ted Frank, AEI 5:00 Adjournment
More Information Philip Wallach American Enterprise Institute 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 202-862-5820 Fax: 202-862-7171 E-mail: PWallach@aei.org Media Inquiries Veronique Rodman American Enterprise Institute 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 202-862-4870 E-mail: VRodman@aei.org

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