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Religious fragmentation, social identity and rent-seeking : evidence from an artefactual field experiment in India
Chakravarty, Surajeet; Fonseca, Miguel A.; Ghosh, Sudeep; … - 2015
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Religious minorities and provision of public goods : evidence from rural West Bengal
Pranab Kumar Das; Kar, Saibal; Kayal, Madhumanti - 2011
India. In several districts of West Bengal in India concentration of religious minorities, namely Muslims is higher than … inequality against Muslims in terms of access to public goods. Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition shows that Muslims in larger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522529
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Religion and Assimilation Among Turkish Muslim Immigrants : Comparing Practicing and Non-Practicing Muslims
Bulut, Elif; Ebaugh, Helen - 2014
In the literature on religion and assimilation, Muslims are usually categorized into one group without any reference to … and non-practicing Turkish Muslims in Houston, we address the issue of how practices of religion play its role in the … are some major differences between practicing and nonpracticing Turkish Muslims, even though practically all Turks …
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"Caste" among muslims : ethnographic account from a Karnataka village
George, Sobin; Adiga, Shrinidhi - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011934433
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Implications of an economic theory of conflict : Hindu-Muslim violence in India
Mitra, Anirban; Ray, Debraj - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008758817
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Impact of industrialization on relative female survival : evidence from trade policies
Chakraborty, Tanika - 2012
This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son preference. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that households are more likely to have a male child in regions with higher trade openness relative to regions with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009549661
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Implications of an Economic Theory of Conflict : Hindu-Muslim Violence in India
Mitra, Anirban - 2013
We model inter-group conflict driven by economic changes within groups. We show that if group incomes are low, increasing group incomes raises violence against that group, and lowers violence generated by it. We then apply the model to data on Hindu-Muslim violence in India. Our main result is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459571
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Implications of an Economic Theory of Conflict : Hindu-Muslim Violence in India
Mitra, Anirban - 2013
We model inter-group conflict driven by economic changes within groups. We show that if group incomes are low, increasing group incomes raises violence against that group, and lowers violence generated by it. We then apply the model to data on Hindu-Muslim violence in India. Our main result is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081246
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Trust and religion : experimental evidence from Bangladesh
Johansson-Stenman, Olof (contributor);  … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002678789
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Religious Schools, Social Values, and Economic Attitudes : Evidence from Bangladesh
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Chaudhury, Nazmul - 2010
This paper uses new data on female graduates of registered secondary secular schools and madrasas from rural Bangladesh and tests whether there exist attitudinal gaps by school type and what teacher-specific factors explain these gaps. Even after controlling for a rich set of individual, family,...
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