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Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements : A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt

Binzel, Christine - 2013

This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim … societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt …

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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 - 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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'One Muslim is Enough!' - Evidence from a Field Experiment in France

Adida, Claire L. - 2011

Anti-Muslim prejudice is widespread in Western countries. Yet, Muslims are expected to constitute a growing share of the total population in Western countries over the next decades. This paper predicts that this demographic trend will increase anti-Muslim prejudice. Relying on experimental games...

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Family Economics Writ Large

Greenwood, Jeremy - 2016

Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher...

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Measuring and Changing Control : Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers

Almås, Ingvild - 2016

This paper studies how targeted cash transfers to women affect their empowerment. We use a novel identification strategy to measure women's willingness to pay to receive cash transfers instead of their partner receiving it. We apply this among women living in poor households in urban Macedonia....

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The Occupational Feminization of Wages

Addison, John T. - 2015

This paper updates the major study by Macpherson and Hirsch (1995) of the effect of the gender composition of occupations on female (and male) earnings. Using large representative national samples of employees from the Current Population Survey, cross-sectional estimates of the impact of...

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Women in Political Bodies as Policymakers

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2023

We investigate how female representation impacts policymaking using the example of child care and new hand-collected data on local council elections in Bavaria. RDD estimations (mixed-gender races for last party-specific council seats) show that an additional female councilor accelerates the...

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Islamism and Gender Relations in the Muslim World as Reflected in Recent World Values Survey Data

Tausch, Arno - 2016

reputation within the community. The empirical data clearly support a pessimistic view. We show that Muslim Feminism, which … in the Muslim world are closely interrelated. Thus, it is imperative that Western Feminism develops solidarity with … Muslim Feminism, and that labor economics does not exclude anymore "the religious factor" from the analytical frameworks …

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Analyzing the Perceptions of Egyptian Youth About the Arab Spring

Fakih, Ali - 2019

Egyptian youth played a central role in the Arab Spring (AS) uprisings, yearning for changes in the political system and for better economic conditions. This paper investigates the perceptions of young Egyptians about the AS. The empirical analysis uses a bivariate ordered probit model to...

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Empowering Women Under Social Constraints : Evidence from a Field Intervention in Rural Egypt

Elsayed, Ahmed - 2018

rural Egypt. Relative to women in the control villages, the intervention increased the likelihood of treated women engaging …

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