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Making of a Muslim woman : different pathways to religious practices
Vasudev, Romica; Inbanathan, Anand - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014556623
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Nutrition, Religion, and Widowhood in Nigeria
Milazzo, Annamaria - 2018
It is known that Muslim women in Nigeria have significantly worse nutritional status than their Christian counterparts. The paper first shows that this difference is explained by covariates including geographic location, ethnicity, household wealth, and women?s education. However, on accounting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912283
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Does a Wife's Bargaining Power Provide More Micronutrients to Females : Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
Rahman, Aminur - 2017
Using calories in a unitary framework, previous literature has claimed lack of gender inequality in intrahousehold food distribution. This paper finds that while there is lack of gender disparity in the calorie adequacy ratio, the disparity is prominent among children, adolescents, and adults...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974606
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Piety and profits : stock market anomaly during the Muslim holy month
Białkowski, Je̜drzej; Etebari, Ahmad; Wisniewski, … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695604
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Trade and geography in the economic origins of Islam : theory and evidence
Michalopulos, Stelios; Naghavi, Alireza; Prarolo, Giovanni - 2010 - This draft: May, 2010
This research examines the economic origins of Islam and uncovers two empirical regularities. First, Muslim countries … (i) determined the economic aspects of the religious doctrine upon which Islam was formed, and (ii) shaped its subsequent … had to remain within limits for Islam to persist. This was instituted via restrictions on physical capital accumulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008729038
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Increasing Financial Inclusion in the Muslim World : Evidence from an Islamic Finance Marketing Experiment
Karlan, Dean S. - 2020
Low utilization of household credit in developing countries may be partially due to religious considerations. In a randomized marketing experiment in Jordan, this paper estimates the effect of sharia-compliant loan features on demand for credit. To comply with Islamic law, the sharia-compliant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838008
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Moral Incentives : Experimental Evidence from Repayments of an Islamic Credit Card
Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2018
This paper studies the role of morality in the decision to repay debts. Using a field experiment with a large Islamic bank in Indonesia, the paper finds that moral appeals strongly increase credit card repayments. In this setting, all of the bank's late-paying credit card customers receive a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936908
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Economic Effects of the Syrian War and the Spread of the Islamic State on the Levant
Ianchovichina, Elena - 2017
This paper uses a global computable general-equilibrium framework with new detail on six Levant countries -- the Arab Republic of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, and Turkey -- to quantify the direct and indirect economic effects of the Syrian war and the advance of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972401
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Islamic Inheritance Law, Son Preference and Fertility Behavior of Muslim Couples in Indonesia
Carranza, Eliana - 2017
This paper examines whether the son preference and fertility behavior of Muslim couples respond to the risk of inheritance expropriation by their extended family. According to traditional Islamic inheritance principles, only the son of a deceased man can exclude his male agnates from inheritance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975442