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 …

new puzzle: such an intellectual tradition did not exist in the Islamic world, even if the potential for abuse was … Islamic law (the Sharia) being far more encompassing than Western law, making it easier for citizens to identify abuses of … power and use collective action to discipline them. We study how the relative homogeneity and solidarity of Islamic society …

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

Arab-Muslim individuals, and v) increases knowledge of Arab-Muslims and Islam in general. We then generalize our analysis … donations data from large charitable organizations. We first show that greater long-term exposure to Arab-Muslims: i) decreases … both explicit and implicit prejudice against Arab-Muslims, ii) reduces support for policies and political candidates …

-standing) attributes in a culture set are. We illustrate these ideas using examples from African, England, China, the Islamic world, the …