Editing John Lott (section)

=== Abortion and crime ===
With John Whitley at the University of Adelaide, Lott published a study that argued that liberalization of abortion laws led to higher murder rates.<ref>John R. Lott Jr. and John E. Whitley, "Abortion and Crime: Unwanted Children and Out-of-Wedlock Births", (2001) [https://ssrn.com/abstract=270126 SSRN Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 254] working paper and [https://ssrn.com/abstract=969508 Economic Inquiry, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 304–324, April 2007] published article.</ref> In a review of the literature on the relationship between abortion and crime, [[Theodore Joyce]], an economist at Baruch College and the National Bureau of Economic Research, praised Lott and Whitley for gathering additional data on abortion but criticized the methodology that they used.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Joyce |first=Theodore J. |date=June 2009 |title=Abortion and Crime: A Review |doi=10.3386/w15098|s2cid=74738947 |journal=[[National Bureau of Economic Research]] |series=Working Paper Series |url=http://www.nber.org/papers/w15098 |doi-access=free }}</ref>