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> At any rate, what kind of social machine must be in place for an allowance
> of abortion twenty years earlier to 'cause' a reduction in crime today?
Or to put it another way, how to factor in deindustrialization in some cities versus military-led growth versus high-tech boom-and-bust versus rise of telemarketing-based service growth.
Over a 20-year period, economic dynamics are extremely hard to isolate and factor into a regression analysis.
--Nathan