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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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Anti-Muslim prejudice is widespread in Western countries. Yet, Muslims are expected to constitute a growing share of … toward Muslims is significantly decreased with the increase of Muslims in their midst, and demonstrate that these results are … driven by the activation of rooted French taste-based discrimination against Muslims when Muslim numbers increase. Our …
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The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims … documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … reveals that some compositional effects favour Muslims but that, overall, differences in characteristics between the …
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This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes … correlated with constituency level voter preferences or characteristics that make religion salient, we use quasi-random variation … political representation of Muslims improves health and education outcomes in the district from which the legislator is elected …
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. This paper examines customer discrimination considering a unique dataset from the most popular sports industry in India, i … personal preference towards players based on their location of origin and religion. In contrast to the often-heated rhetoric …
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, perplexing in the face of rising per capita income when malnutrition is rampant, has been termed India's Calorie Consumption … India's National Sample Survey reveals that Indian households' purchase of calories did become more cost-efficient at every … of the Calorie Consumption Puzzle. Besides thus investigating India's Calorie Consumption Puzzle, this study demonstrates …
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random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed …
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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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measured by various indicators, decreased significantly relative to that of non-Muslims immigrants whereas there is no evidence … for the existence of a negative trend in the integration of Muslims prior to the terrorist attacks. We further show that … terrorism has a particularly negative impact on the integration of the highly educated, employed, and less religious Muslims …
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Using a difference-in-differences framework, this paper estimates the impact that Britain's July 2005 bombings had on 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...
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