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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Authors: Bhalotra, Sonia (Author) ; Clots-Figueras, Irma 1977- (Author) ; Lakshmi Iyer (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Bonn, Germany IZA January 2018
In: Discussion paper series (no. 11292)
Year: 2018
Series/Journal:Discussion paper / IZA no. 11292
Further subjects:B Grey literature
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