Revisiting a Natural Experiment: Do Legislators with Daughters Vote More Liberally on Women’s Issues?

The Economics of Abortion Policy

“…Recent work has pointed to evidence that these results may be time-and context-specific, withGreen et al (2023) not observing similar patterns if extending to earlier and later Congresses to those studied byWashington (2008).2 This law was named after Simone Veil, the Health Minister who drafted the bill, and legalised abortion, permitting abortion on request up to the tenth gestational week.…”