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Muslims in France : Identifying a Discriminatory Equilibrium

Adida, Claire L. - 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...

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Gender, Economic Development and Islam : A Perspective from France

Adida, Claire L. - 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...

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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...

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The Roles of Incentives and Voluntary Cooperation for Contractual Compliance

Gächter, Simon - 2011

voluntary cooperation. Further experiments show that this result is robust to two important variables: experiencing Trust …

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Strategies of Cooperation and Punishment Among Students and Clerical Workers

Bigoni, Maria - 2012

We study the individual behavior of students and workers in an experiment where they repeatedly face the same cooperative task. The data show that clerical workers differ from college students in overall cooperation rates, strategy adoption and use of punishment opportunities. Students cooperate...

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On the Dynamics of Ethnic Fractionalization

Campos, Nauro F.; Kuzeyev, Vitaliy S. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Does fractionalization change over time? If so, are there any substantial implications foreconomic performance? To answer such questions, we construct a new panel data set withfractionalization measures for 26 former communist countries covering the period from 1989to 2002...

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Asabiyya : Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies

Heshmati, Almas; Tausch, Arno - 2009

This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led members of the economic profession, most notably, Barro, 2004 to...

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Religious Practice and Student Performance : Evidence from Ramadan Fasting

Hornung, Erik; Schwerdt, Guido; Strazzeri, Maurizio - 2022

We investigate how the intensity of Ramadan affects educational outcomes by exploiting spatio-temporal variation in annual fasting hours. Longer fasting hours are related to increases in student performance in a panel of TIMMS test scores (1995â 2019) across Muslim countries but not other...

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Religion and Depression in Adolescence

Cooley, Jane - 2016

The probability of being depressed increases dramatically during adolescence and is linked to a range of adverse outcomes. Many studies show a correlation between religiosity and mental health, yet the question remains whether the link is causal. The key issue is selection into religiosity. We...

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Religion, Discrimination and Trust

Chuah, Swee-Hoon - 2016

We propose that religion impacts trust and trustworthiness in ways that depend on how individuals are socially … are, as well as actual trust and trustworthiness are measured incentive compatibly. We find that interpersonal similarity … in religiosity and affiliation promote trust through beliefs of reciprocity. Religious participants also believe that …

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