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administrative data from Denmark to investigate the impact of exposure to Ramadan in utero on labor market outcomes of adult Muslim …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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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 …
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African- American motorist in the United States are much more likely than white motorists to have their car searched by police checking for illegal drugs and other contraband. The courts are faced with the task of deciding on the basis of traffic-search data whether police behavior reflects a...
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also use the IPUMS to study trends in race differences in the incidence of mortgages, and in the value of owner …
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We examine trends in self-employment among white and black men from 1910 to 1990 using Census and CPS microdata. Self-employment rates fell over most of the century and then started to rise after 1970. For white men, we find that the decline was due to declining rates within industries, but was...
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-establishment cells. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to examine segregation by race and ethnicity at the level of …
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Critics have said that affirmative action is at best ineffective and at worst counterproductive. In particular, it has been argued that if affirmative action helps anybody, it helps only the highly educated cream of the minority population, and may perversely work to the detriment of the...
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