TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Adida, Claire L.
AU  - Laitin, David D.
AU  - Valfort, Marie-Anne
        TI  - "One Muslim is Enough!" - Evidence from a Field Experiment in France
        PY  - 2011/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6122
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp6122
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - discrimination
KW  - Islam
KW  - France
KW  - group salience
KW  - experimental economics
KW  - economic theory
KW  - group threat theory
KW  - intergroup contact theory
        ER  -