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Changing Sexual Regulations in the U.S. from 1990 to 2010: Spatial Panel Data Analysis

Review of Economics and Institutions

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Title Changing Sexual Regulations in the U.S. from 1990 to 2010: Spatial Panel Data Analysis
 
Creator Bose, Feler; Indiana University East
Jacob, Jeffry A; Bethel University
 
Subject Economics; Law and Economics
Index of Sexual Regulation, Spatial Panel Data Analysis, Index of Marriage Practice Regulation, Citizen Ideology, Index of Sex Crime Regulation
K36, K42, K49
 
Description Understanding legal regulation on sexual practices is a field in its infancy. In this paper we analyze the factors driving these sexual regulations using a novel dataset for the U.S. for the years 1990 to 2010. We first introduce the index of sexual regulation (ISR) and then using a spatial lag fixed effects estimator that accounts for spillover effects from neighboring states, we find that citizen’s ideology, population density, household income and median age are associated with a weaker sexual regulation while government ideology has a slight positive association with the overall sexual regulation. We also examine two dimensions of sexual practice regulation looking at the index of marriage practice regulation (IMPR) and sex crime regulation (ISCR). In the case of IMPR, our findings indicate that a more liberal government ideology, a higher share of population with the college degree and a higher median age are associated with a more liberal index of marriage practice regulation.
 
Publisher University of Perugia
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2018-07-13
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.rei.unipg.it/rei/article/view/214
10.5202/rei.v9i1.214
 
Source Review of Economics and Institutions; Vol 9, No 1 (2018); 18
2038-1379
2038-1344
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.rei.unipg.it/rei/article/view/214/180