The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims … documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … reveals that some compositional effects favour Muslims but that, overall, differences in characteristics between the …

This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes … correlated with constituency level voter preferences or characteristics that make religion salient, we use quasi-random variation … political representation of Muslims improves health and education outcomes in the district from which the legislator is elected …

Leveraging close elections to generate quasi-random variation in the religious identity of state legislators in India … (religious) aversion to abortion among Muslims. These districts exhibit increases in fertility that offset the decrease in girl …

paper finds that religion shapes the entrepreneurial decision. In particular, some religions, such as Islam and Christianity …While considerable concern has emerged about the impact of religion on economic development, little is actually known … about how religion impacts the decision making of individuals. This paper examines the influence of religion on the decision …

state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste and inter-religion differences in earnings have …Since 1989, there has been a sharp increase in the role of caste and religion in determining political fortunes at both … unexplored. We address this lacuna in the literature, and explore the determinants of the differences in inter-caste and inter-religion …

attainments in India. Individual-level data from two successive rounds of the National Sample Survey suggest that considerable … numerous socio-economic and parental covariates, and the Muslim educational disadvantage in India today is greater than that …

Germany provides evidence that the events also affected the relative earnings of Muslims outside the US. However, the results … show that there was no uniform effect on all types of Muslims across all types of firms. Accounting for moderating factors …, a significantly negative effect can only be found for low-skilled Muslims employed in small- and medium-sized firms …

. Based on these theoretical considerations and case studies on the automotive, electronics and clothing industries, the …

Anti-Muslim prejudice is widespread in Western countries. Yet, Muslims are expected to constitute a growing share of … toward Muslims is significantly decreased with the increase of Muslims in their midst, and demonstrate that these results are … driven by the activation of rooted French taste-based discrimination against Muslims when Muslim numbers increase. Our …