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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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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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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 … relative to non-Muslim communities. This paper, relying on a unique identification strategy that isolates religion from …
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(religious) aversion to abortion among Muslims. These districts exhibit increases in fertility that offset the decrease in girl …
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. Finally, the influence of negative discourses on Islam and Muslims are discussed. … study has been to clarify and examine young people’s attitudes towards Muslims, and the relationships between these … controlling for several background variables simultaneously, many variables affect the attitude towards Muslims. The country of …
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This paper examines the effect of religion on positional concerns using survey experiments. We focus on two of the … dimensions of religion - degree of religiosity and religious festivals. By conducting the experiments during both the most …
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's propensity to vote for Islamic parties. There is no statistically significant impact of education on men's religiosity or their … tendency to vote for Islamic parties and education does not influence the propensity to cast a vote in national elections for …
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-religious to religious. Based on responses to over 6,200 job ads, the results reveal an insignificant disadvantage for Muslims when … they are not religious. However, Muslims lose further ground when they are religious, while the reverse occurs for … Christians. Consequently, religious Muslims must submit twice as many applications as religious Christians before being called …
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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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examine the roles of ethnicity and religion in conflict and war. Based on one theory, the Ottoman conquests were driven by the … Gaza ideology according to which the empire's central motivation was provided by a spirit of Holy War in the name of Islam …
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