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The Fast and The Studious? Ramadan Observance and Student Performance
What are the consequences of religious obligations conflicting with civic duties? We investigate this question by evaluating changes in the performance of practicing Muslim students when end-of-secondary-school exams and Ramadan overlapped in the Netherlands. Using administrative data on exam takers and a machine learning model to individually predict fasting probability, we estimate that the grades and pass rate of compliers dropped significantly. This negative impact was especially strong for low achievers and those from religiously segregated schools. Investigating mechanisms, we find suggestive evidence that not being able to sleep in the morning before an afternoon exam was particularly detrimental to performance.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. TI 2023-023/V
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Education and Inequality
Cultural Economics: Religion
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- Subject
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Religion
Productivity
Ramadan
Education
The Netherlands
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Hanemaaijer, Kyra
Marie, Olivier
Musumeci, Marco
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Veröffentlichung
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Tinbergen Institute
- (where)
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Amsterdam and Rotterdam
- (when)
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2023
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Hanemaaijer, Kyra
- Marie, Olivier
- Musumeci, Marco
- Tinbergen Institute
Time of origin
- 2023
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