%0 Report
        %A Effenterre, Clémentine Van
        %T Papa Does Preach: Daughters and Polarisation of Attitudes toward Abortion
        %D 2017
        %8 2017 Nov
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 11177
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp11177
        %X This article examines the hypothesis that having daughters polarises male politicians' attitudes toward abortion rights. Using French and U.S voting records, I estimate that having daughters decreases support for abortion law by 25% for right-wing congressmen in France, and increases support for Democrats by 12%. I find similar behavioural patterns for voters using electoral surveys. Robustness checks confirm that this result is not an artefact of family stopping rules. I rationalise these findings in a model predicting that fathers with paternalistic preferences adopt a more polarised political position on abortion when they have a daughter rather than a son.
        %K political behaviour
%K gender
%K polarisation
%K voting
%K attitudes
%K abortion