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Tradition and mortality : evidence from twin infanticide in Africa
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Fenske, James and Wang, Shizhuo (2023) Tradition and mortality : evidence from twin infanticide in Africa. Journal of Development Economics, 163 . 103094. doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103094 ISSN 0304-3878.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103094
Abstract
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. We use the full sample and a border sample of adjacent societies with and without past twin infanticide. Both samples provide no evidence that past twin infanticide predicts greater differential twin mortality today. This null result is likely a consequence of suppression efforts by Africans, missionaries, and colonial governments. Where these channels were weak, we find evidence of greater twin mortality today.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DT Africa H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Twins, Twins -- Death -- Africa, Infanticide , Africa -- Social life and customs, Social norms -- Africa | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Development Economics | ||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0304-3878 | ||||||||
Official Date: | June 2023 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 163 | ||||||||
Article Number: | 103094 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103094 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 27 March 2023 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 24 May 2023 | ||||||||
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