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Does Secular Education Impact Religiosity, Electoral Participation and the Propensity to Vote for Islamic Parties? Evidence from an Education Reform in a Muslim Country
Cesur, Resul; Mocan, Naci - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
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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The Effect of Religiosity and Religious Festivals on Positional Concerns: An Experimental Investigation of Ramadan
Akay, Alpaslan; Karabulut, Gökhan; Martinsson, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369106
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Tariffs, Social Status, and Gender in India
Anukriti, S; Kumler, Todd J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and social strata. We compare women and births in rural Indian districts more or less exposed to tariff cuts. For low socioeconomic status women, tariff cuts increase the likelihood of...
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Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Cassan, Guilhem; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes … correlated with constituency level voter preferences or characteristics that make religion salient, we use quasi-random variation …
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Social Divisions in School Participation and Attainment in India: 1983-2004
Asadullah, Niaz; Kambhampati, Uma; López Bóo, Florencia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
attainments in India. Individual-level data from two successive rounds of the National Sample Survey suggest that considerable … numerous socio-economic and parental covariates, and the Muslim educational disadvantage in India today is greater than that …
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Earnings Inequality in India: Has the Rise of Caste and Religion Based Politics in India Had an Impact?
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant intercaste and inter-religion differences in earnings have …Since 1989, there has been a sharp increase in the role of caste and religion in determining political fortunes at both … unexplored. We address this lacuna in the literature, and explore the determinants of the differences in inter-caste and inter-religion …
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The Puzzle of Muslim Advantage in Child Survival in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Valente, Christine; van Soest, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … literature on the role of religion or culture as encapsulating important unobservable behaviours or endowments that influence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700920
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Poverty, Undernutrition, and Child Mortality: Some Inter-Regional Puzzles and their Implications for Research and Policy
Klasen, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition, and child mortality in developing countries. While there is, as expected, a close aggregate correlation between these measures of deprivation, the measures generate some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822811
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Human Capital, Mortality and Fertility: A Unified Theory of the Economic and Demographic Transition
Sunde, Uwe; Cervellati, Matteo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper provides a unified theory of the economic and demographic transition. Individuals make optimal decisions about fertility, education of their children and the type and intensity of the investments in their own education. These decisions are affected by different dimensions of mortality...
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Surviving the Genocide: The Impact of the Rwandan Genocide on Child Mortality
Ciani, Federico; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Between April and July 1994 Rwanda experienced a tremendous wave of inter-ethnic violence that caused at least 500,000 deaths. Combining birth history data drawn from the 2000 Rwanda Demographic and Health Survey with prefecture-level information on the intensity of the conflict, we examine the...
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