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The Immigrant Next Door : Exposure, Prejudice, and Altruism
Bursztyn, Leonardo; Chaney, Thomas; Hassan, Tarek A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Arab-Muslim individuals, and v) increases knowledge of Arab-Muslims and Islam in general. We then generalize our analysis …
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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 … utero as a natural experiment, under the assumption that some Muslim women might have fasted during Ramadan when they were … pregnant. In some of our specifications, we use a sample of students from predominantly non-Muslim countries as an additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457124
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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
administrative data from Denmark to investigate the impact of exposure to Ramadan in utero on labor market outcomes of adult Muslim …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457943
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459571
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'We Are Not Guinea Pigs' : The Effects of Disclosure of Medical Misconduct on Vaccine Compliance
Archibong, Belinda; Annan, Francis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In 1996, following an epidemic, Pfizer tested a new drug on 200 children in Muslim Nigeria. 11 children died while … others were disabled. We study the effects of the disclosure, in 2000, of the deaths of Muslim children in the Pfizer trials … on vaccine compliance among Muslim mothers. Muslim mothers reduced routine vaccination of children born after the 2000 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372412
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Alternative Monetary Policy Rules : A Comparison with Historical Settings for the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan
McCallum, Bennett T. - 2000
This paper conducts counterfactual historical analysis of several monetary policy rules by contrasting actual settings of instrument variables with values that would have been specified by the rules in response to prevailing conditions. Of particular interest is whether major policy mistakes,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471025
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Demand Side Considerations and the Trade and Wages Debate
Abrego, Lisandro - 2000
Recent trade and wages literature focuses on whether trade or technology has been the major source of increases in wage inequality in OECD countries since the 1980s. In this literature, no attention has been paid to demand side considerations. Using a simple heterogeneous goods trade model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471093
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Can Falling Supply Explain the Rising Return to College for Younger Men? A Cohort-Based Analysis
Card, David - 2000
Although the college-high school wage gap for younger men has doubled over the past 30 years, the gap for older men has remained nearly constant. We argue that these shifts reflect changes in the relative supply of highly-educated workers across age groups. Cohorts born in the first half of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471112
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Expectations Hypotheses Tests
Bekaert, Geert - 2000
We investigate the Expectations Hypotheses of the term structure of interest rates and of the foreign exchange market using vector autoregressive methods for the U.S. dollar, Deutsche mark, and British pound interest rates and exchange rates. In addition to standard Wald tests, we formulate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471161
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From Mill Town to Board Room : The Rise of Women's Paid Labor
Costa, Dora L. - 2000
In the twenty-first century many of the professional and high ranking managerial workers in the United States and in other OECD countries will be women. This change in women's social and economic status represents a dramatic break with the past, but one that can only be understood by looking to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471162