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 …

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 …

(religious) aversion to abortion among Muslims. These districts exhibit increases in fertility that offset the decrease in girl …

. 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 …

achievement trait (income). Individuals who are less likely to achieve are predicted to invest more value on nationalism and to …

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 …

—together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that … religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual preferences …, societal norms, and institutions. Religion affects physical capital accumulation by influencing thrift and financial …

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 …

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 …