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Cultural barriers to breast-cancer screening take-up

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  • Daniele Corrias

    (University of Padova)

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I study the cultural determinants of breast-cancer screening take-up, focusing on the role of religious beliefs. To isolate the effect of culture from the institutional environment to which women are exposed, I apply the epidemiological approach, comparing first- and second-generation immigrants living in the same European host country and exploiting cross-country of origin variation in religiosity. By merging individual data from SHARE and UKHLS with country-level information from the World Values Survey, I find that higher religious intensity significantly reduces the probability of mammography screening uptake.

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  • Daniele Corrias, "undated". "Cultural barriers to breast-cancer screening take-up," "Marco Fanno" Working Papers 0333, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno".
    • Handle: RePEc:pad:wpaper:0333
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