Tradition and mortality: Evidence from twin infanticide in Africa
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چکیده
Traditions can limit investment in early life health, even if they have been abandoned. We introduce data on historic twin infanticide and merge it with recent birth records from 23 African countries. use the full sample a border of adjacent societies without past infanticide. Both samples provide no evidence that predicts greater differential mortality today. This null result is likely consequence suppression efforts by Africans, missionaries, colonial governments. Where these channels were weak, we find
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Development Economics
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1872-6089', '0304-3878']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103094