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In 1996, following an epidemic, Pfizer tested a new drug on 200 children in Muslim Nigeria. 11 children died while others were disabled. We study the effects of the disclosure, in 2000, of the deaths of Muslim children in the Pfizer trials on vaccine compliance among Muslim mothers. Muslim...
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on Hindu-Muslim violence in India. Our main result is that an increase in per-capita Muslim expenditures generates a …. These findings speak to the origins of Hindu-Muslim violence in post-Independence India …
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This paper examines whether nutritional disruptions experienced during the stage of fetal development impair an individual's labor market productivity later in life. We consider intrauterine exposure to the month of Ramadan as a natural experiment that might cause shocks to the inflow of...
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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 … political representation of Muslims improves health and education outcomes in the district from which the legislator is elected …
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The COVID-19 pandemic led to stark reductions in economic activity in India. We employ CMIE's Consumer Pyramids … clothing and appliances. Following Costa (2001) and Hamilton (2001), we estimate Engel curves and find that changes in …
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A set of randomized experiments shed light on how markets and information influence household decisions to adopt nutritional innovations. Of 400 Indian villages, we randomly assigned half to an intervention where all shopkeepers were offered the option to sell a new salt, fortified with both...
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curves for health products in Kenya, Guatemala, India, and Uganda and test whether (1) information about health risk, (2 …
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trial that randomized premiums and subsidies for India's first national, public hospital insurance program, RSBY. We find …
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by carrying out algorithmic audits of Facebook in its two biggest markets, the US and India, focusing on two algorithms ….g., whites are less likely to be shown Black friends' posts, and Muslims less likely to be shown Hindu friends' posts), but no …
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Arab-Muslim individuals, and v) increases knowledge of Arab-Muslims and Islam in general. We then generalize our analysis … donations data from large charitable organizations. We first show that greater long-term exposure to Arab-Muslims: i) decreases … both explicit and implicit prejudice against Arab-Muslims, ii) reduces support for policies and political candidates …
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