Did Legalized Abortion Cut Crime in the Czech Republic?
| Thesis title: | Did Legalized Abortion Cut Crime in the Czech Republic? |
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| Author: | Dubovský, Peter |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor thesis |
| Supervisor: | Bartoň, Petr |
| Opponents: | Svoboda, Miroslav |
| Thesis language: | English |
| Abstract: | In this thesis, I test with Czech data the hypothesis of Donohue & Levitt (2001) which proposes that the growth of abortion rate lowers the future crime rate. The fixed effects model I use is derived from Donohue & Levitt (2001) and adjusted on the basis of criticism by Foote & Goetz (2005; 2008) and Joyce (2004; 2009a; 2009b). As regards period 1994-2009 the results imply that the rise of abortions by 10 per 100 born children lowers theft by eight percent in an age group after it reaches the criminal age. Considering the periods 1968-1976 and 1978-2009 the estimates are low and weakly significant indicating only little impact of abortion on crime during the socialist period. |
| Keywords: | crime; abortion; fixed efffects |
| Thesis title: | Legalized abortion and crime: also in Czech? |
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| Author: | Dubovský, Peter |
| Thesis type: | Bakalářská práce |
| Supervisor: | Bartoň, Petr |
| Opponents: | Svoboda, Miroslav |
| Thesis language: | English |
| Abstract: | V záverečnej práci testujem na českých dátach hypotézu, ktorú vytvorili Donohue & Levitt (2001), a ktorá tvrdí, že rast miery potratovosti spôsobuje pokles kriminality v budúcich rokoch. Model fixných efektov, ktorý používam, je odvodený z uvedeného článku a upravený na základe kritiky v článkoch Foote & Goetz (2005,2008) a Joyce (2004,2009a,2009b). V prípade obdobia 1994-2009 výsledky naznačujú, že nárast o 10 potratov na 100 narodených detí spôsobí 8 percentný pokles krádeží pre danú vekovú skupinu v dobe po dosiahnutí kriminálneho veku. Pre obdobia 1968-1976 a 1978-2009 sú odhady nízke so slabou signifikanciou a naznačujú len malý dopad potratov na zločin počas obdobia socializmu. |
| Keywords: | potrat; fixné efekty; kriminalita |
Information about study
| Study programme: | Ekonomie a hospodářská správa/Ekonomie |
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| Type of study programme: | Bakalářský studijní program |
| Assigned degree: | Bc. |
| Institutions assigning academic degree: | Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Economics |
| Department: | Department of Economics |
Information on submission and defense
| Date of assignment: | 28. 2. 2011 |
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| Date of submission: | 19. 12. 2011 |
| Date of defense: | 14. 2. 2012 |
| Identifier in the InSIS system: | https://insis.vse.cz/zp/32203/podrobnosti |