India. In several districts of West Bengal in India concentration of religious minorities, namely Muslims is higher than … inequality against Muslims in terms of access to public goods. Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition shows that Muslims in larger …

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 …

religion-specific human capital. It explores some implications of negative externalities between religious and secular … education. Applications include the tension between science and religion during the European Enlightenment and the development …

The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it …. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as 'no religion'. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific ones … tendency of individuals to leave their religion is strongly correlated with the degree of strictness of their country and with …

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 …

. Survey and experimental data collected in France in 2009 reveal that Muslims and rooted French are locked in a sub …-optimal equilibrium whereby (i) rooted French exhibit taste-based discrimination against those they are able to identify as Muslims and … (ii) Muslims perceive French institutions as systematically discriminatory against them. This equilibrium is sustained …

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 …