The Economic Intuition Behind the Connection Between Abortion and Crime

question 37

Multiple Choice

The economic intuition behind the connection between abortion and crime rates is based on the idea that

• A)women who choose abortion do not want the child and, if compelled to raise it would be poorer and do a poorer job at parenting, increasing the likelihood the child would grow up to be a criminal.
• B)the Supreme Court decision removing most limits on abortion made the country more peaceful.
• C)women instinctively know when a child will grow up to be a criminal and are more likely to abort those they believe will grow up to be criminals.
• D)abortion is a moral prerogative of women.

Understand and apply formulas for calculating mean and standard deviation in different contexts.

Calculate probabilities using the normal distribution as an approximation to the binomial distribution.

Grasp the concept of sampling distributions and how they are used to estimate population parameters.

Understand the role and calculation of the standard error in statistical analysis.

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