Informality is a salient feature of labor market in Egypt as it is the case with many developing countries. This is the … first study of the determinants of worker transitions between various labor market states using panel data from Egypt. We …

This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim … societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt …. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we then characterize conditions under which a temporary decline in social mobility …

This paper compares the occupational distributions in 1990 and 2000 of adult white men and women for American Jews and … National Jewish Population Surveys (1990, 2000/01) and the 1990 and 2000 Censuses of Population. Among both men and women … the high level occupations. Thus, religion was more important than gender in explaining occupational patterns. American …

representative sample of women in the United States. Religious affiliation is found to have a significant impact on years of …

. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the significance of religion in fertility behavior …

The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it …. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as ‘no religion’. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific ones … tendency of individuals to leave their religion is strongly correlated with the degree of strictness of their country and with …

We analyze the intergenerational transmission of the strength of religion focusing on the interplay between family and …

This paper examines the effect of religion on positional concerns using survey experiments. We focus on two of the … dimensions of religion – degree of religiosity and religious festivals. By conducting the experiments during both the most …