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| Title: | | "One Muslim is enough!" Evidence from a field experiment in France  |
| Authors: | | Adida, Claire L. Laitin, David D. Valfort, Marie-Anne |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion Paper series, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 6122 |
| Abstract: | | 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 and a formal model, we show that the generosity of rooted French toward Muslims is significantly decreased with the increase of Muslims in their midst, and demonstrate that these results are driven by the activation of rooted French taste-based discrimination against Muslims when Muslim numbers increase. Our findings call for solutions to anti-Muslim prejudice in the West. |
| Subjects: | | discrimination Islam France group salience experimental economics economic theory group threat theory intergroup contact theory |
| JEL: | | A12 C90 D03 J15 J71 Z12 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201111303547 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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