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India. In several districts of West Bengal in India concentration of religious minorities, namely Muslims is higher than … inequality against Muslims in terms of access to public goods. Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition shows that Muslims in larger …
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In the literature on religion and assimilation, Muslims are usually categorized into one group without any reference to … and non-practicing Turkish Muslims in Houston, we address the issue of how practices of religion play its role in the … are some major differences between practicing and nonpracticing Turkish Muslims, even though practically all Turks …
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This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son preference. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that households are more likely to have a male child in regions with higher trade openness relative to regions with...
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We model inter-group conflict driven by economic changes within groups. We show that if group incomes are low, increasing group incomes raises violence against that group, and lowers violence generated by it. We then apply the model to data on Hindu-Muslim violence in India. Our main result is...
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