central tenets of Islam. To establish causality, we exploit variation in the length of the fasting period due to the rotating … Islamic calendar. We report two key, quantitatively meaningful results: 1) longer Ramadan fasting has a negative effect on … output growth in Muslim countries, and 2) it increases subjective well-being among Muslims. We then examine labor market …

The explosion in the 21st century of terrorist activities by Islamic radicals in the United States, Europe and Asia …

This study explores the interaction between trade and geography in shaping the Islamic economic doctrine. We build a … scheme unsustainable. Islam developed a set of dynamic redistributive rules that were self-enforcing, in regions where arid … the accumulation of wealth by the commercial elite, shaping the economic trajectory of Islamic lands in the pre …

Islamic parties, but it has no impact on the propensity to vote. Education has no statistically significant impact on men …'s religiosity or their tendency to vote for Islamic parties. The results are robust to controlling for indicators of individuals …

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 …