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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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Discrimination against female migrants wearing headscarves
Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2016
Germany is currently experiencing a high influx of Muslim migrants. From a policy perspective, integration of migrants into the labor market is crucial. Hence, a field experiment was conducted that examined the employment chances of females with backgrounds of migration from Muslim countries,...
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Do English skills affect Muslim immigrants' economic and social integration differentially?
Yuksel, Mutlu; Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Guven, Cahit - 2019
This paper estimates the returns to English-speaking fluency on the socioeconomic outcomes of childhood immigrants. We further investigate whether Muslim childhood immigrants face additional hurdles in economic and social integration into the host country. Motivated by the critical age...
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Behind the veil : the effect of banning the islamic veil in schools
Maurin, Eric; Navarrete H., Nicolás - 2019
Immigration from Muslim countries is a source of tensions in many Western countries. Several countries have adopted regulations restricting religious expression and emphasizing the neutrality of the public sphere. We explore the effect of the most emblematic of these regulations: the prohibition...
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Natural shocks and marriage markets : evolution of mehr and dowry in muslim marriages
Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Mallick, Debdulal; Chowdhury, … - 2017
We examine how mehr, a conditional payment from husbands to wives in the event of divorce, and dowry, a transfer from bride families to grooms at the time of marriage, have evolved through natural shocks. We develop a model of marriage market in which dowry acts as a groom price, whereas mehr...
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Labor market effects of intrauterine exposure to nutritional deficiency : evidence from administrative data on Muslim immigrants in Denmark
Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Tekin, Erdal; Greve, Jane - 2014
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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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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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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Religion and abortion : the role of politician identity
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Lakshmi Iyer - 2018
Leveraging close elections to generate quasi-random variation in the religious identity of state legislators in India, we find lower rates of female foeticide in districts with Muslim legislators, which we argue reflects a greater (religious) aversion to abortion among Muslims. These districts...
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Anti-Muslim discrimination in France : evidence from a field experiment
Valfort, Marie-Anne - 2018
Relying on a correspondence study conducted in France before the 2015 attacks, this paper compares the callback rates of immigrants of Muslim and Christian culture who originate from the same country and whose religiosity varies from non-religious to religious. Based on responses to over 6,200...
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