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9/30 Ex-Education Secretary Bennett: Black Abortions Would Lower Crime:
http://csua.org/u/dkj [sfgate.com]
I guess the new edition of the Book of Virtues includes obsessive
gambling and racial profiling.
\_ "A Modest Proposal"
\_ But... it's true. I mean at a naive statistical level, and even if
you looked at the longer term implications it's true. Of course it's
reprehensible.. and he noted that.. the whole point was a commentary
on why there are some things we don't and shouldn't do to lower
crime.
\_ Yes, but it's a mental disconnect. Is abortion really related
to the crime rate, specifically black abortions? The fact that
the phrase "black abortions" appeared to have come up without
prompting demonstrates a certain mindset.
\_ Steven Levitt (U of Chicago economist, "Freakonomics" guy) wrote a
somewhat related paper (link:tinyurl.com/ae7sf called "The Impact
of Legalized Abortion on Crime" (one sentence summary: "legalized
abortion had an impact on crime"). Actually all of his stuff is
quite readable and really interesting.
http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/LevittCV.html
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| csua.org/u/dkj -> sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2005/09/30/national/a073736D12.DTL Email This Article (09-30) 07:59 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- The White House on Friday criticized former Education Secretary William B ennett for remarks linking the crime rate and the abortion of black babi es. "The president believes the comments were not appropriate," White House p ress secretary Scott McClellan said. Bennett, on his radio show, "Morning in America," was answering a caller' s question when he took issue with the hypothesis put forth in a recent book that one reason crime is down is that abortion is up. "But I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you cou ld, if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down," said Bennett, author o f "The Book of Virtues." He went on to call that "an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensi ble thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, th ese far-reaching, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky." Responding later to criticism, Bennett said his comments had been mischar acterized and that his point was that the idea of supporting abortion to reduce crime was "morally reprehensible." Bennett was education secretary under President Reagan and director of dr ug control policy when Bush's father was president. |
| pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/LevittCV.html Management Consultant, August 1989 - July 1991 EDUCATION: MassachusettsInstitute of Technology PhD, Economics, 1994 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1992 - 1994) Harvard University BA, Summa Cum Laude, Economics, 1989 Phi Beta Kappa (1989) Young prize for best undergraduate thesis in economics EDITORIAL POSITIONS Editor, Journal of Political Economy (August 1999 - present) Associate Editor, Quarterly Journal of Economics(1998-1999) HONORS, AWARDS, and ACTIVITIES: John Bates Clark Medal, 2004 Garvin Prize (given annually to the most outstanding presentation in the Univeristy of California at berkeley Law and Economics Workshop), 2003 Economics Journal Lecture, Royal Economic Association Meetings, 2003 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA. Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everyth ing," April 2005, published by William Morrow (a Harper Collins imprint ). PUBLICATIONS IN ACADEMIC JOURNALS "The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade"; Download "Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyc e" Journal of Human Resources, 2004, 39, pp. Download "An Examination of the Influence of Theory and Individual Theorists on E mpirical Research in Microeconomics." Download "Honoring James Heckman's Contributions to Economics: Identification, He terogeneity, and Economic Models." Download "Testing the Economic Model of Crime: The National Hockey League's Two R eferee Experiment." Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2002 , 1, pp. Download "Testing Mixed-Strategy Equilibria When Players Are Heterogeneous: The C ase of Penalty Kicks in Soccer." Dow nload "Alternative Strategies for Identifying the Link Between Unemployment an d Crime." Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2001, 17(Issue 4), pp. Download "Growing Up in the Projects: The Economic Lives of a Cohort of Men Who C ame of Age in Chicago Public Housing." Downlo ad "The Changing Relationship between Income and Crime Victimization." Fede ral Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review, 1999, 5, pp. Download "Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incap acitation, or Measurement Error?" Download "The relationship between crime reporting and police: Implications for t he use of uniform crime reports." Downl oad "Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: A n Empirical Analysis of Lojack." Download "The relationship between crime reporting and police: Implications for t he use of uniform crime reports." Download "Incentive compatibility constraints as an explanation for the use of pr ison sentences instead of fines." Download "Optimal Incentive Schemes when Only the Agents' "Best" Output Matters t o the Principal." The Rand Journal of Economics, 1995, 26(4, Symposium on the Economics of Organization), pp. Download "Policy Watch: Congressional campaign finance reform." Journal of Econom ic Perspectives, 1995, 9(Issue 1), pp. Download "Using Repeat Challengers to Estimate the Effect of Campaign Spending on Election Outcomes in the US House." Do wnload "Aging in an American Street Gang: Toward a Life-Course Perspective on G ang Involvement." Forthcoming, in collection of articles to be publishe d by American Bar Foundation. Download (coming soon) "Understanding Colombia's Crime Situation and the Institutional Reforms Required to Alleviate the Problem." Download (coming soon) "The Determinants of Juvenile Crime." in Risky Behavior by Youths, edite d by Jonathan Gruber, University of Chicago Press, 2000. Download (comin g soon) POPULAR WRITING "The Seat-Belt Solution", New Tork Times, July 11, 2005 (with Stephe J Dubner). Download WORKING PAPERS AND UNPUBLISHED PAPERS "Evidence that Child Safety Seats are no more Effective than seat Belts for Children Age Two and Older." Download "Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed: The Value of Inform ation in Real Estate Transactions" NBER Working Paper Series No. |
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