We study the potential for pleasant and cooperative contact to reduce preconceived prejudice between religious groups … week-long vocational training program. We find that intergroup contact reduces the prejudice of both Hindu and Muslim … positive effect of intergroup contact on reducing prejudice dissipates after six months, the baseline results for Hindu …

anti-discrimination laws, and examines the implications of undertaking such an approach …

discrimination in Muslim societies. We hypothesize that those Muslim countries in which (political) Islam constitutes an important … constraint in the legislative process experience more discrimination against minorities than other (Muslim) countries. In other … discrimination. Instrumental variable regressions support our interpretation that this result reflects a causal effect of …

addressing their weaknesses. In particular, policymakers should thoroughly address prejudice (taste-based discrimination …), stereotypes (statistical discrimination), cognitive biases, and attention-based discrimination. …Discrimination is a complex, multi-factor phenomenon. Evidence shows widespread discrimination on various grounds …