For more than half a century, scholarly studies of the antievolution movement have been concerned almost exclusively with its influence on the teaching of the natural sciences, especially biology. Yet from its inception in the 1920s, antievolution agitation has been aimed not only at the natural...

What are the limits to religious expression in Muslim majority countries? This paper presents evidence from 47 predominantly Islamic countries to demonstrate that non-Muslim and Muslim minority groups are subject to repression and discrimination in both secular and religious states. Examining...

Liberalism, founded on a radical notion of individual rights, has a notorious theoretical problem accommodating any strong idea of community. Yet liberals have always made an exception for one particular form of community, the national, for which individuals are expected to sacrifice in times of...

A meta-analysis is a tool for aggregating estimates of a similar "effect" across many studies. Publication bias is the phenomenon where literature is sample selected in favor of studies having statistically significant results and/or having estimates that satisfy pre-conceived expectations. A...

We replicate a flagship randomised control trial carried out in rural Morocco that showed substantial and significant impacts of microcredit on the assets, the outputs, the expenses and the profits of self-employment activities. The original results rely primarily on trimming, which is the...

Bleakley (2010) finds that large-scale campaigns in the 20th century to eradicate malaria were followed by income gains for those native to historically endemic areas. I perform a pre-registered reanalysis and find these results to be largely robust. Malaria eradication efforts indeed appear to...