Again, the American Economic Association promotes leftist demagoguery!
Are there no progressive churches in the US? What do they "strengthen"? The oxymoron "gender dysphoria"? Genital mutilation and puberty blockers for teenagers? What else?
The abstract contains a lot of banalities, which seems indicative of junk science.
I bet, the explicit mention of "attitudes against homosexuals" in the abstract is a kind of citation or click bait or in furtherance of the LGBTQ cause in claiming discrimination!
From the abstract:
"Can policies shape personal values and beliefs? To examine, we exploit the staggered introduction of faith-based initiatives across US states.
Our difference-in-differences analysis reveals that the initiatives strengthened religiosity and conservative-religious social views, such as attitudes against homosexuals [???].
The evidence points to causal effects; we find no systematic differences prior to implementation, the results are robust to restricting comparison to contiguous counties and to conducting triple-differences estimation exploiting treatment heterogeneity.
A key explanation, in line with standard models of religion and supported by data on nonprofit organizations, is that the initiatives facilitated the establishment of faith-based organizations."
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