Abortion Policy in the Eye of the Beholder: State-Level Perceptions and Preferences in the Dobbs Era

• In Event: Preferences and Estimation

Brief Overview

This paper examines how Americans perceive and misperceive state abortion laws after Dobbs. Using large-scale nationwide survey data, it measures bias and differential item functioning in perceptions, preferences, and policy congruence across states.

Authors

• Alice Marie Malmberg, University of California, Davis

• Christopher Hare, University of California, Davis