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further investigate whether Muslim childhood immigrants face additional hurdles in economic and social integration into the … marriage market prospects of non-Muslim childhood immigrants significantly and increases their participation in volunteer work …. However, our results show that while a good command of English enhances the educational attainments of Muslim childhood …
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the labor market outcomes of UK residents who are either Muslim by religious affiliation or whose nativity profiles are … similar to the terrorists. We find a 10 percentage point decrease in the employment of very young Muslim men relative to non-Muslim … Muslim-majority countries is also found. The terrorist events had little impact on the employment of older men …
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Anti-Muslim prejudice is widespread in Western countries. Yet, Muslims are expected to constitute a growing share of … increase anti-Muslim prejudice. Relying on experimental games and a formal model, we show that the generosity of rooted French … driven by the activation of rooted French taste-based discrimination against Muslims when Muslim numbers increase. Our …
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This paper examines the impact of potential fetal malnutrition on the academic proficiency of Muslim students in … utero as a natural experiment, under the assumption that some Muslim women might have fasted during Ramadan when they were … pregnant. In some of our specifications, we use a sample of students from predominantly non-Muslim countries as an additional …
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administrative data from Denmark to investigate the impact of exposure to Ramadan in utero on labor market outcomes of adult Muslim …
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We study the effect that a series of fundamentalist-Islamic terrorist attacks in Europe had on the attitudes of Muslim … immigrants in the Netherlands towards integration. Shortly after the attacks, Muslim immigrants' perceived integration, as …
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We measure the impact of individuals' looks on their life satisfaction or happiness. Using five data sets from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true effects of beauty on happiness. Personal beauty...
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We employ a behavioural measure of trustworthiness obtained from an experiment carried out with a sample of the general British population whose individuals were extensively interviewed on earlier occasions. These previous interviews allow us to have very good income measures, and in particular...
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This paper presents the first empirical evidence on the effect of the threat of unionisation on the use of a predominantly non-union type of employment, i.e. temporary employment. The identification strategy exploits an exogenous variation in union threat induced in the UK by new legislation...
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In this paper we reevaluate the returns to education based on the increase in the compulsory schooling age from 14 to 15 in the UK in 1947. We provide a Bayesian fuzzy regression discontinuity approach to infer the effect on earnings for a subset of subjects who turned 14 in a narrow window...
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