Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Lakshmi Iyer - 2018
(religious) aversion to abortion among Muslims. These districts exhibit increases in fertility that offset the decrease in girl …Leveraging close elections to generate quasi-random variation in the religious identity of state legislators in India … abortion. We find no evidence of greater postnatal neglect of girls once more girls are born. Our findings show that politician …