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"One Muslim is enough!" Evidence from a field experiment in France
Adida, Claire L.; Laitin, David D.; Valfort, Marie-Anne - 2011
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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Gender, economic development and Islam: A perspective from France
Adida, Claire L.; Laitin, David D.; Valfort, Marie-Anne - 2012
Muslims do less well on the French labor market than their non Muslim counterparts. One explanation for this relative …; (2) in-group norms among Muslims do not empower women; and hence (3) Muslim communities will underperform economically …
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Religion and Abortion: The Role of Politician Identity
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Iyer, Lakshmi - 2018
(religious) aversion to abortion among Muslims. These districts exhibit increases in fertility that offset the decrease in girl …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816564
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Schooling, cognitive skills, and the Latin American growth puzzle
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009
Economic development in Latin America has trailed most other world regions over the past four decades despite its relatively high initial development and school attainment levels. This puzzle can be resolved by considering the actual learning as expressed in tests of cognitive skills, on which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274178
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Human capital, economic growth, and inequality in China
Heckman, James J.; Yi, Junjian - 2012
China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled labor acquired before economic reforms began. As development proceeded, the demand for high skilled labor has grown, and, in the past decade, China has made substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282331
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The great happiness moderation
Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - 2012
This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced positive income growth over the last forty years, in particular in developed countries. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287588
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Are we there yet? Time for checks and balances on new institutionalism
Iyigun, Murat - 2012
New institutionalism has had considerable success during the last decade in shepherding the debate on sustained economic development. If the sociopolitical, legal and economic transformations in the Anglo-Saxon world in the last three decades prove anything, however, it is that the late Mancur...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290007
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Religion and Growth
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023
work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469638
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Does Cash for School Influence Young Women's Behavior in the Longer Term? Evidence from Pakistan
Alam, Andaleeb; Baez, Javier E.; Del Carpio, Ximena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The Punjab Female School Stipend Program, a female-targeted conditional cash transfer program in Pakistan, was … productivity, consumption, inter-generational human capital accumulation and desired fertility. Lastly, there is no evidence that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021898
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Does cash for school influence young women's behavior in the longer term? Evidence from Pakistan
Alam, Andaleeb; Baez, Javier E.; Del Carpio, Ximena - 2011
The Punjab Female School Stipend Program, a female-targeted conditional cash transfer program in Pakistan, was … productivity, consumption, inter-generational human capital accumulation and desired fertility. Lastly, there is no evidence that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278667