Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Aparajita Dasgupta
Author-Name-First: Aparajita
Author-Name-Last: Dasgupta
Author-Email: aparajita.dasgupta@ashoka.edu.in
Author-Workplace-Name: Ashoka University
Author-Name: Farhan Majid
Author-Name-First: Farhan
Author-Name-Last: Majid
Author-Email: fmajid@impaqint.com
Author-Workplace-Name: IMPAQ International
Author-Name: Wafa Hakim  Orman
Author-Name-First: Wafa Hakim 
Author-Name-Last: Orman
Author-Email: wafa.orman@uah.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Alabama
Title: The Nutritional Cost of Beef Bans in India
Abstract: Beef is a rich source of heme iron and one of its cheapest sources in India. We use the state-level rollout of beef possession and sale bans as a natural experiment to study the health consequences of formalizing a religious restriction as law. Leveraging the intertemporal and spatial variation in these bans we invoke a triple difference-in-differences estimation framework and compare women’s hemoglobin levels in groups that traditionally eat beef— Muslims, Christians, and lower-caste Hindus—with those in groups that do not. We find that bans reduce women’s hemoglobin in beef eating communities by 3 mg/dl and increase severe anemia by 27 percent.
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Creation-Date: 20220329
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File-URL: https://dp.ashoka.edu.in/ash/wpaper/paper77_0.pdf
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Number: 77
Handle: RePEc:ash:wpaper:77