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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 - 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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Christianity and infant health in India

Menon, Nidhiya; McQueeney, Kathleen - 2015

This paper studies child health in India focusing on differences in anthropometric outcomes between the three main religions – Hindus, Muslims and Christians. The results indicate that Christian infants have higher height-for-age z-scores as compared to infants of other religious identities,...

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Effects of religiosity on social behaviour : experimental evidence from a representative sample of spaniards

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Espín, Antonio M.; Neuman, Shoshana - 2013

This study explores the effect of several personal religion-related variables on social behaviour, using three … "no religion" made decisions closer to rational selfish behaviour in the DG and the UG compared to those who affiliate … religion raised in seems to have no effect on pro-sociality, beyond the effect of the current measures of religiosity …

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Is education the panacea for economic deprivation of Muslims? : Evidence from wage earners in India, 1987 - 2005

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar (contributor); … - 2007

implications. -- Earnings gap ; education ; decomposition ; religion …

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Religiosity and migration : travel into one's self versus travel across cultures

Aleksynska, Mariya; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2011

, religious pluralism, religious freedom, and societal attitudes towards religion are important predictors of religiosity. These …. -- economics of religion ; religiosity ; immigrants ; secularization ; culture ; integration …

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Migration and stratification

Jasso, Guillermina - 2011

Migration and stratification are increasingly intertwined. One day soon it will be impossible to understand one without the other. Both focus on life chances. Stratification is about differential life chances - who gets what and why - and migration is about improving life chances - getting more...

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The more the merrier? : The effect of family composition on children's education

Black, Sandra E. (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Understanding the mechanisms of parental divorce effects on child's higher education

Chen, Yen-Chien; Fan, Elliott; Liu, Jin-tan - 2021

We combine multiple administrative datasets from Taiwan to evaluate the degree to which the adverse divorce effect on the child's higher education operates through deprivation of economic resources. Using one million siblings, we find that parental divorce occurring at ages 13-18 significantly...

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Diversity and public goods : a natural experiment with exogenous residential allocation

Algan, Yann; Hémet, Camille; Laitin, David D. - 2011

This paper demonstrates the effects of ethnic and religious diversity on the quality of public spaces. Its identification strategy relies on the exogeneity of public housing allocations in France, and thereby eliminates the bias from endogenous sorting. The paper uses micro evidence of social...

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Birth weight in the long-run

Bharadwaj, Prashant; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2015

We study the effect of birth weight on long-run outcomes, including permanent income, income across various stages of the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset on nearly all Swedish twins born between 1926-1958,...

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