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. Finally, the influence of negative discourses on Islam and Muslims are discussed. … study has been to clarify and examine young people’s attitudes towards Muslims, and the relationships between these … controlling for several background variables simultaneously, many variables affect the attitude towards Muslims. The country of …
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Using a unique survey of adults in Turkey, we find that an increase in educational attainment, due to an exogenous secular education reform, decreases women's propensity to identify themselves as religious, lowers their tendency to wear a religious head cover (head scarf, turban or burka) and...
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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 …
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Indonesia as a case in point to classify communities strictly adhering to traditional adat laws and Islamic religion as … that, even after controlling for other variables, traditional collectivist communities strongly adhering to adat and Islam …
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Using the UK Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities, we explore the determinants of religious identity for Muslims … and non-Muslims. We find that Muslims integrate less and more slowly than non-Muslims. A Muslim born in the UK and having …- Muslim just arrived in the country. Furthermore, Muslims seem to follow a different integration pattern than other ethnic and …
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Muslims do less well on the French labor market than their non Muslim counterparts. One explanation for this relative …; (2) in-group norms among Muslims do not empower women; and hence (3) Muslim communities will underperform economically … relative to non-Muslim communities. This paper, relying on a unique identification strategy that isolates religion from …
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Anti-Muslim prejudice is widespread in Western countries. Yet, Muslims are expected to constitute a growing share of … toward Muslims is significantly decreased with the increase of Muslims in their midst, and demonstrate that these results are … driven by the activation of rooted French taste-based discrimination against Muslims when Muslim numbers increase. Our …
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religion enhances prosocial behavior. Evidence from both survey and experimental data however yield mixed results and there is … and church attendance. Despite the historic divide in religion, results in West and East Germany do not differ …
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We examine the effect of adherence to behavioral codes, as measured by the degree of religiosity, on the level of honesty by conducting under-the-cup die experiments. The findings suggest that behavioral codes, which prohibit lying, offset the monetary incentive to lie. The highest level of...
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In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...
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