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Political Islam, marriage, and fertility: evidence from a natural experiment
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The plethora of pathways leading to family formation decisions has made the causal assessment of the influence of politics and religion on marriage and fertility difficult. The authors exploit the unique opportunity offered by the emergence of a new political party in Turkey, and the electoral features of the country’s majoritarian system, to estimate the effect of politics and religion on marriage and fertility. The AK Parti (Justice and Development Party), with an explicitly Islamist platfo...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- American Journal of Sociology Journal website
- Volume:
- 123
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 1296-1340.
- Publication date:
- 2018-03-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-01-01
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- Source identifiers:
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830433
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- 2018-03-20
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- 2018
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