Religion and abortion: the role of politician identity
Leveraging close elections to generate quasi-random variation in the religious identity of state legislators in India, we find lower rates of female foeticide in districts with Muslim legislators, which we argue reflects a greater (religious) aversion to abortion among Muslims. These districts exhib...
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| Language: | English |
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Bonn, Germany
IZA
January 2018
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Discussion paper series (no. 11292)
Year: 2018 |
| Series/Journal: | Discussion paper / IZA
no. 11292 |
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Grey literature
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