weeding out criminals

[Doug Henwood]

Reporting in his Business Week column on theDonohue/Levitt study 
claiming that the legalization of abortion in the 1970s contributed 
to lower U.S. crime rates in the 1990s 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/delivery.taf?_UserReference=1873E03275842 
0B937B9F954?>, Harvard economist Robert Barro writes: "Apparently 
abortion particularly weeded out the children who would have been 
likely to follow criminal careers." Coming soon: Roundup for urban 
applications?

Doug