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Gender equality in Muslim-majority countries

Gouda, Moamen; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016

is more pronounced in countries where Islam is the source of legislation. Constitutions changed in only four Muslim …

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Jetter, Michael; Stadelmann, David - 2017

Usually, studies analyzing terrorism focus on the total number of casualties or attacks in a given county. However, per capita rates of terrorism are more likely to matter for individual welfare. Analyzing 214 countries from 1970 - 2014, we show that three stylized findings are overturned in...

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Islam and human capital in historical Spain

Cinnirella, Francesco; Naghavi, Alireza; Prarolo, Giovanni - 2020

This paper studies the impact of Muslim rule on human capital development. Using a unique novel dataset containing yearly data on Muslim presence in the period 711-1492 and literacy rate in 1900 for about 7500 municipalities in Spain, we estimate the local impact of the length of Muslim rule in...

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Religion in economic history : a survey

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up to WWII. Works on Judaism address Jewish occupational specialization … economic consequences in present-day Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Much of the economics of Islam focuses on the role that … Islam and Islamic institutions played in political-economy outcomes and in the "long divergence" between the Middle East and …

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Economic freedom and religion : an empirical investigation

Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016

Protestantism is associated with economic freedom, Islam is not, with Catholicism in between. The Protestant ethic requires economic …

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Religiosity and terrorism : evidence from Ramadan fasting

Hodler, Roland; Raschky, Paul A.; Strittmatter, Anthony - 2018

This study examines the effect of religiosity on terrorism by focusing on one of the five pillars of Islam: Ramadan …

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The female vote and the rise of AKP in Turkey

Fidrmuc, Jan; Tunali, Cigdem Börke - 2015

Differences between the voting behavior of men and women have become one of the most significant issues in social science research in recent years. In this study, we examine whether there is gender gap in voting behavior in Turkey. Using European Social Survey data, we find that education level...

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Democracy and countries with Muslim majorities : a reply and update

Potrafke, Niklas - 2012

democratic. Hanusch takes issue with my results - and by inference with all past empirical results on the relation between Islam …. He establishes his conclusion by excluding the heartland of Islam from the estimation sample. For his estimates, Hanusch … in the heartland of Islam. -- political institutions ; Islam …

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Religion and growth

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function-physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology-together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that religion can enhance or impinge upon economic...

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Culture, institutions & the long divergence

Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - 2021

Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western European economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the...

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