Democracy and voting survey: first results from Ethiopia

This working paper contains the first results of a questionnaire that was conducted in May 2004 (May, 8-9) among 331 students of the Addis Ababa University to know their opinion about democracy and the political preferences they express through voting. The paper takes the form of the questionnaire itself in which we included, for each question, the corresponding first statistical results that we get. We create a synthetic table of content as well as an index at the end of the document to facilitate for the reader an easy access to the information he may be looking for.Africa, Altruism, Equity, Ethiopia, Institution design, Public goods, Voting behaviour

The effect of weather-induced internal migration on local labor markets. Evidence from Uganda

Relying on census data collected in 2002 and historical weather data for Uganda, we estimate the impact of weather-induced internal migration on the probability for non-migrants living in the destination regions to be employed. Consistent with the pre- diction of a simple theoretical model, our results reveal a larger negative impact than the one documented for developed countries. They further show that this negative impact is significantly stronger in Ugandan regions with lower road density and therefore less conducive to capital mobility: a 10 percentage points increase in the net in-migration rate in these areas decreases the probability of being employed of non-migrants by more than 10 percentage points

When do textbooks matter for achievement? Evidence from African primary schools

International audienceUsing a within-student analysis, we find no average impact of textbook access (ownership or sharing) on primary school achievement. Instead, it is only for students with high socioeconomic status that one form of textbook access - sharing - has a positive impact

Democracy and voting survey: first results from Ethiopia

This working paper contains the first results of a questionnaire that was conducted in May 2004 (May, 8-9) among 331 students of the Addis Ababa University to know their opinion about democracy and the political preferences they express through voting. The paper takes the form of the questionnaire itself in which we included, for each question, the corresponding first statistical results that we get. We create a synthetic table of content as well as an index at the end of the document to facilitate for the reader an easy access to the information he may be looking for.Ce document de travail présente les premiers résultats d'un questionnaire mené en mai 2004 (les 8 et 9 mai) auprès de 331 étudiants de l'Université d'Addis Abeba afin de connaître leur opinion sur la démocratie ainsi que les préférences politiques qu'ils expriment à travers leur vote. Le document prend la forme du questionnaire lui-même où nous avons inséré, pour chaque question, les premiers résultats statistiques obtenus. Une table des matières synthétique ainsi qu'un index en fin de document ont été créés pour faciliter l'accès du lecteur à l'information qu'il recherche

Identifying barriers to Muslim integration in France

Is there a Muslim disadvantage in economic integration for secondgeneration immigrants to Europe? Previous research has failed to isolate the effect that religion may have on an immigrant family's labor market opportunities because other factors, such as country of origin or race, confound the result. This paper uses a correspondence test in the French labor market to identify and measure this religious effect. The results confirm that in the French labor market, antiMuslim discrimination exists: a Muslim candidate is 2.5 times less likely to receive a job interview callback than is his or her Christian counterpart. A high-n survey reveals, consistent with expectations from the correspondence test, that second-generation Muslim households in France have lower income compared with matched Christian households. The paper thereby contributes to both substantive debates on the Muslim experience in Europe and methodological debates on how to measure discrimination. Following the National Academy of Sciences' 2001 recommendations on combining a variety of methodologies and applying them to real-world situations, this research identifies, measures, and infers consequences of discrimination based on religious affiliation, controlling for potentially confounding factors, such as race and country of origin.Muslim immigrants ; Integration ; France

"One Muslim is Enough!" - Evidence from a Field Experiment in France

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.discrimination, Islam, France, group salience, experimental economics, economic theory, group threat theory, intergroup contact theory

Women, Muslim immigrants, and economic integration in France

Muslim immigrants to Europe display distinctive attitudes toward women in a wide range of survey data. This study investigates whether this translates into distinctive behavior. Relying on a dictator game in France and an identification strategy that isolates the effect of religion from typical confounds such as race, we compare the donations of matched Christian and Muslim immigrants and rooted French to in-group and out-group men vs. women. Our results indicate that Muslim immigrant participants deviate from Christian immigrant and rooted French partici pants in their behavior toward women: while the latter favor women over men, Muslim immigrants favor men over women

Muslims in France: identifying a discriminatory equilibrium

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 suggest that Muslims and rooted French are locked in a sub-optimal equilib- rium whereby (i) rooted French exhibit taste-based discrimination against those they are able to identify as Muslims and (ii) Muslims perceive French institutions as system- atically discriminatory against them. This equilibrium is sustained because Muslims, perceiving discrimination as institutionalized, are reluctant to assimilate and rooted French, who are able to identify Muslims as such due to their lower assimilation, reveal their distaste for Muslims

Nuorten palvelut syynissä

Opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriö, sosiaali- ja terveysministeriö ja työ- ja elinkeinoministeriö tilasivat OECD:ltä arvioinnin nuorten palveluista. Arvioinnissa keskityttiin erityisesti nuorten koulutukseen ja työelämään siirtymisen. Arviointi toteutettiin keväällä 2018. Arviointi on osa OECD:n Action Plan for Youth -toimintapolitiikkaohjelman toteuttamista. Raportti sisältää suosituksia nuorten palvelujen kehittämiseksi. Raportti keskittyy nuorten siirtymiseen koulutuksesta työhön sekä nuorille suunnattujen avustuksien ja monialaisten palvelujen kehittämiseen ja vahvistamiseen. Vastaavia raportteja löytyy myös muista Pohjoismaista. OECD:n tuottaman arviointiraportin kokonaisuudessaan voit käydä lukemassa osoitteesta: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/employment/investing-in-youth_24126357 Tässä julkaisussa on suomennettu arviointiraportin tiivistelmäluku ja suositukset. Käännös on opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriön teettämä. Raporttia ei kokonaisuudessaan julkaista suomeksi ja ruotsiksi. Arviointiraportin tekijänoikeuden kuuluvat OECD:lle

Le vote éthique, une réponse efficace aux conflits ethniques ?: Le cas de l'Éthiopie

Dans cet article, nous souhaitons comprendre si, dans une démocratie multiethnique potentiellement déchirée par la guerre civile, des préoccupations éthiques cruciales comme l'aversion à l'inégalité inter-ethnique permettent de réduire de façon significative la tentation des citoyens de voter pour leur parti ethnique (défendant l'intérêt de leur groupe ethnique au détriment des autres) plutôt que pour un parti national (promouvant un traitement équitable des différents groupes ethniques). Nous analysons pour cela des données que nous avons collectées en mai 2004 auprès de 331 étudiants de l'Université d'Addis Abeba. Nos résultats invitent à la fois au pessimisme et à l'optimisme