We've Got You Covered: Firms' Political Stances on Abortion and Labor Market Sorting

We are grateful for helpful comments from Maria Balgova, Moshe Barach, Marianne Bertrand, Seth Carnahan, Ronnie Chatterji, Emanuele Colonnelli, Pauline Grosjean, Reuben Hurst, Danny Kim, Olle Folke, John List, Amanda Pallais, Chris Poliquin, and Paola Sapienza as well as participants at the 2023 Gender Gaps Conference, 2023 CESifo/ifo Junior Workshop on Big Data, 2023 Strategy Forum, 16th Annual People and Organizations Conference, Berlin Applied Micro Seminar, Empirical Management Conference, ETH Zurich, HEC Lausanne, ISEG, Liverpool School of Management, Maastricht University, NABE, NBER SI Political Economy, Télécom Paris, Tilburg University, University of Chicago Harris, UCLA, University of Barcelona, University of Bristol, University of Maryland, University of Potsdam, USC, and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Previously circulated as “We’ve Got You Covered: Employer and Employee Responses to Dobbs v. Jackson.” The authors acknowledge funding for this project from the Russell Sage Foundation. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.