This paper considers arguments about Islam and women's welfare, and, at greater length, how legal systems with Islamic …

determine whether wife beating is more acceptable in some religions than in others. The Muslim religion has been receiving a lot … studies that examine the relationship between religion and wife beating; a study that ranks the acceptability of wife beating …

In this paper, we investigate how attachment to religion is connected to conservative gender role beliefs and to what …-progressive political regimes and ideology can weaken this chain of effects, by eroding either the way religion shapes gender roles or the … religion is in both groups associated with more traditional gender roles; however, the link is significantly weaker for the …

practicing other religions (Islam and other) or no religion, Christian females are indeed less likely to form polygynous unions … whether Christian identity reduces the likelihood that females enter into polygyny. To address the endogeneity associated with … this identity, the analysis adopts an instrumental variable (IV) approach by exploiting the unique setting of a Christian …

relative to non-Muslim communities. This paper, relying on a unique identification strategy that isolates religion from …