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"One Muslim is enough!" Evidence from a field experiment in France
Adida, Claire L.; Laitin, David D.; Valfort, Marie-Anne - 2011
Anti-Muslim prejudice is widespread in Western countries. Yet, Muslims are expected to constitute a growing share of the total population in Western countries over the next decades. This paper predicts that this demographic trend will increase anti-Muslim prejudice. Relying on experimental games...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286872
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Gender, economic development and Islam: A perspective from France
Adida, Claire L.; Laitin, David D.; Valfort, Marie-Anne - 2012
Muslims do less well on the French labor market than their non Muslim counterparts. One explanation for this relative failure can be characterized by the following syllogism: (1) the empowerment of women is a sine qua non for economic progress; (2) in-group norms among Muslims do not empower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286900
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'One Muslim is Enough!' - Evidence from a Field Experiment in France
Adida, Claire L. - 2011
Anti-Muslim prejudice is widespread in Western countries. Yet, Muslims are expected to constitute a growing share of the total population in Western countries over the next decades. This paper predicts that this demographic trend will increase anti-Muslim prejudice. Relying on experimental games...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118034
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Behavioral Assumptions of Islamic Economics Revisited : Is the Giving Behavior of Muslims Different From Others?
Çokgezen, Murat - 2019
Islamic economics (IE) assumes an altruistic economic agent who spends his income not only on himself but also on others through charity. Since this behavioral norm is attributed only to Muslims, this implicitly means that the giving behavior of Muslims is different from others. This study aims...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012901083
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The Ibn Rushd Syndrome : In Search of Rational Muslim
Islam, Sharif - 2018
, reforming and often times repairing Islam. Central to these discourses are two types of “Islam”: At one hand, there is the Islam … that is incompatible with “Western” values and norms. And on the other hand, there is the Islam that share many principles … in Islam. The main purpose of this paper is to complicate the simplified trajectory of Islamic thought by focusing on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915064
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How Muslims Understand Democracy : An Empirical Investigation
AlAzzawi, Shireen - 2017
This study examines how Muslims understand democracy and its essential components. We hypothesize that, although Muslims tend to value democracy as high as non-Muslims, Muslims have a unique understanding of procedural, as well as substantive, components of democracy, that stems from both their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965661
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'One Muslim is Enough!' Evidence from a Field Experiment in France
Adida, Claire L.; Laitin, David; Valfort, Marie‐Anne - 2012
Anti-Muslim prejudice is widespread in Western countries. Yet, Muslims are expected to constitute a growing share of the total population in these countries over the next decades. This paper predicts that this demographic trend, other factors held constant, will increase anti-Muslim prejudice....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014175757
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Muslim Attitudes toward Bribery
McGee, Robert W.; Benk, Serkan; Budak, Tamer - 2022
The present study is part of a much larger study that examined the ethics of bribery and the ethics of tax evasion from a variety of perspectives. In this study, data were taken from the most recent World Values Survey. This chapter focused on Muslim views on the ethics of accepting a bribe....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014236848
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Protestant Work Ethic Among the Muslims : Changeable Empirical Evidence
Shirokanova, Anna - 2015
This paper deals with the recently revealed paradox that contemporary Muslims demonstrate a stronger Protestant work ethic (PWE) than contemporary Protestants do. I test whether this paradox is supported in a multilevel analysis on internationally comparative WVS data. According to Inglehart's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027926
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Muslims in France: Identifying a discriminatory equilibrium
Adida, Claire L.; Laitin, David D.; Valfort, Marie-Anne - 2012
We analyze the assimilation patterns of Muslim immigrants in Western countries with a unique identification strategy. Survey and experimental data collected in France in 2009 reveal that Muslims and rooted French are locked in a sub-optimal equilibrium whereby (i) rooted French exhibit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289843