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employment-population ratios and hours worked of very young (ages 16 to 25) Muslim men fell. By 2004, most losses had begun to … dissipate. The employment-population ratios and hours worked of older Muslim men experienced little deterioration. …
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This paper studies child health in India focusing on differences in anthropometric outcomes between the three main religions - Hindus, Muslims and Christians. The results indicate that Christian infants have higher height-for-age z-scores as compared to infants of other religious identities, and...
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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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Using a unique survey of adults in Turkey, we find that an increase in educational attainment, due to an exogenous secular education reform, decreases women's propensity to identify themselves as religious, lowers their tendency to wear a religious head cover (head scarf, turban or burka) and...
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% and as many as 33%. The Muslim population - which grew from 1% in 1981 to 4% in 2001 - will, according to our estimates …
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During the 2000s Arab and Islamic American racial identity selection was subjected to an exogenous racializing event, viz., public and private reaction to the Al Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001. The Al Qaeda attacks clearly demarcate a period in which there was a structural increase in the...
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argument by analysing Muslim-Christian violence in the post-Suharto era, combining a new subnational data set of ethno …
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community-based entrepreneurship in a marginal community (Muslim). Many self-employed Muslim workers and small businesses in …
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We use data from a cross-nationally harmonised field experiment to examine discrimination towards Muslim job applicants … originating from countries that have a substantial Muslim population: of these, some signalled closeness to Islam in their job … application while others did not. With this design, we can empirically disentangle anti-Muslim discrimination (a ‘disclosed Muslim …
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-group (Muslim) appearance. We find that time delay decreases helping rates. In contrast, regardless of time manipulation, out …
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