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...

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...

List of figures and tables -- Preface -- 1. The challenge of Muslim migrants into Christian-heritage societies -- 2. Anti-Muslim discrimination in the French labor market and its consequences -- 3. Solving the problem of causal identification -- 4. Procuring a sample -- 5. Research protocols --...

Based on observational studies, conventional wisdom suggests that citizenship carries economic benefits. We leverage a randomized experiment from New York where low-income registrants who wanted to become citizens entered a lottery to receive fee vouchers to naturalize. Voucher recipients were...

Evidence about the assimilation patterns of Muslim immigrants in Western countries is inconclusive because current research fails to isolate the e ffect of religion from that of typical confounds, such as race, ethnicity or nationality. A unique identi fication strategy allows us to isolate the...