We Can't Say for Certain It's Because of the Removal of Lead, But It's the Removal of Lead

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by: Ryan • January 14, 2015 • no comments

It's even true for Canada! More details here.

Conclusion:

"Criminological astrology" is a good phrase to describe the relentless effort of US criminologists to explain a worldwide phenomenon using only parochial US data. But there is one explanation that really does work pretty well everywhere: the reduction in gasoline lead, which happened all over the world, but happened at different times in different places. And everywhere it happened, crime started to decline about 20 years later. No explanation is ever perfect, but this one comes closer than most.