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Implications of an Economic Theory of Conflict : Hindu-Muslim Violence in India
Mitra, Anirban - 2013
on Hindu-Muslim violence in India. Our main result is that an increase in per-capita Muslim expenditures generates a …. These findings speak to the origins of Hindu-Muslim violence in post-Independence India …
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Labor Market Effects of Intrauterine Exposure to Nutritional Deficiency : Evidence from Administrative Data on Muslim Immigrants in Denmark
Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise - 2014
This paper examines whether nutritional disruptions experienced during the stage of fetal development impair an individual's labor market productivity later in life. We consider intrauterine exposure to the month of Ramadan as a natural experiment that might cause shocks to the inflow of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040538
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Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes : Evidence from India
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2013
This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079642
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Movies, Margins and Marketing : Encouraging the Adoption of Iron-Fortified Salt
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2015
A set of randomized experiments shed light on how markets and information influence household decisions to adopt nutritional innovations. Of 400 Indian villages, we randomly assigned half to an intervention where all shopkeepers were offered the option to sell a new salt, fortified with both...
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Keeping the Doctor Away : Experimental Evidence on Investment in Preventative Health Products
Meredith, Jennifer - 2013
curves for health products in Kenya, Guatemala, India, and Uganda and test whether (1) information about health risk, (2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077947
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Fetal Malnutrition and Academic Success : Evidence from Muslim Immigrants in Denmark
Greve, Jane - 2015
This paper examines the impact of potential fetal malnutrition on the academic proficiency of Muslim students in Denmark. We account for the endogeneity of fetal malnutrition by using the exposure to the month of Ramadan during time in utero as a natural experiment, under the assumption that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015561
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The Economics of Faith : Using an Apocalyptic Prophecy to Elicit Religious Beliefs in the Field
Augenblick, Ned; Cunha, Jesse M.; Dal Bo, Ernesto; Rao, … - 2021
We model religious faith as a "demand for beliefs," following the logic of the Pascalian wager. We then demonstrate how an experimental intervention can exploit standard elicitation techniques to measure religious belief by varying prizes associated with making choices contrary to one's belief...
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Cultural Proximity and Loan Outcomes
Fisman, Raymond J. - 2012
religion and caste of bank officers and borrowers from a bank in India, and a rotation policy that induces exogenous matching …
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Caste, Kinship and Sex Ratios in India
Chakraborty, Tanika - 2008
This paper explores the relationship between kinship institutions and sex ratios in India at the turn of the twentieth … century. Since kinship rules varied by caste, language, religion and region, we construct sex-ratios by these categories at … the district-level using data from the 1901 Census of India for Punjab (North), Bengal (East) and Madras (South). We find …
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Do Trade Policy Differences Induce Sorting? Theory and Evidence from Bangladeshi Apparel Exporters
Demidova, Svetlana A. - 2009
This paper provides a new heterogeneous firm model for trade where firms differ in their productivity and experience different market demand shocks. The model incorporates variations in trade policy, trade preferences, and the rules of origin needed to obtain them, to reflect real world...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012767215