Data and Code for: Queens of the Desert Convictism and Marital Attitudes across Australia

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Victoria Baranov, University of Melbourne; Pauline Grosjean, University of New South Wales; Ralph de Haas, European Bank for Development and Reconstruction

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Baranov, Victoria , Grosjean, Pauline, and de Haas, Ralph. Data and Code for: Queens of the Desert Convictism and Marital Attitudes across Australia. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2020. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-09-10. https://doi.org/10.3886/E120824V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary We merge data on spatial variation in the presence of convicts across eighteenth and nineteenth century Australia with results from the country's 2017 poll on same-sex marriage and with household survey data. These combined data allow us to identify the lasting impact of convict colonization on social norms about marriage. We find that in areas with higher historical convict concentrations, more Australians recently voted in favor of same-sex marriage and hold liberal views about marriage more generally. Our results highlight how founder populations can have lasting effects on locally held social norms.
Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources Australian Research Council (FT 190100298)

Scope of Project

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      J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      K42 Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law


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