Campante, Filipe; Yanagizawa-Drott, David - In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics 130 (2015) 2, pp. 615-658
We study the economic effects of religious practices in the context of the observance of Ramadan fasting, one of the central tenets of Islam. To establish causality, we exploit variation in the length of daily fasting due to the interaction between the rotating Islamic calendar and a country’s...