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Title: Regime Stability and the Persistence of Traditional Practices

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2021

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ISSN: 0034-6535

DOI: 10.1162/REST_A_01078

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Abstract: I examine why the harmful tradition of female genital mutilation persists in certain countries while in others it has been eradicated. People are more willing to abandon their traditions if they are confident that the government is durable enough to set up long-term replacements for them. Using a country-ethnicity panel dataset spanning 23 countries from 1970 to 2013 and artificial partition of African ethnic groups by national borders, I show that a one-standard-deviation larger increase in political regime durability leads to a 0.1-standard-deviation larger decline in the share of newly-circumcised women, conditional on the presence of an anti-FGM government policy.

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Authors: Poyker, Michael

Periodical (Full): The Review of Economics and Statistics

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Pages: 1-45

Data Collections: IPUMS Global Health - DHS

Topics: Gender, Reproductive and Sexual Health

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