Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58637 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6122
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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