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Health capital and the prenatal environment: The effect of maternal fasting during pregnancy

Almond, Douglas; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2009

We use the Islamic holy month of Ramadan as a natural experiment in fasting and fetal health. In Michigan births 1989-2006, we and prenatal exposure to Ramadan among Arab mothers results in lower birthweight and reduced gestation length. Exposure to Ramadan in the first month of gestation is...

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Islamist radicalization and developmental aid in South Asia

Lakshman, Kanchan - 2006

This working paper explores the reasons commonly identified for the rise of political and radical Islam throughout the …

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Counter radicalization development assistance

van Hippel, Karin - 2006

The paper reviews current research and practice and recommends strategies for development agencies working in the Arab and Muslim world. It builds on the basic assumption that the realization of the Millennium Development Goals will be vital to reduce support for terrorism in the long term....

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Urban poverty and support for Islamist terror: survey results of Muslims in fourteen countries

Mousseau, Michael - 2010

. The rise of militant Islam can be attributed to high rates of urbanization in many Muslim countries in recent decades … already in power. Imams have an incentive to preach want audiences want to hear, so a mutated in-group version of Islam …

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Trade and geography in the origins and spread of Islam

Michalopoulos, Stelios; Naghavi, Alireza; Prarolo, Giovanni - 2012

This research examines the economic origins and spread of Islam in the Old World and uncovers two empirical …. Islam was such a movement. In line with this conjecture, we utilize anthropological information on precolonial traits of …

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