'On socio-economic predictors of religious intolerance: Evidence from a large scale longitudinal survey in the biggest muslim democracy​​​​​​​'

Professor
Arief Anshory Yusuf
Date
Thursday 28 Nov 2019, 16:15 - 17:30
Type
Seminar
Spoken Language
English
Room
Room 3.14
Location
International Institute of Social Studies
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Arief Anshory Yusuf
Professor Arief Anshory Yusuf

On 28 November 2019, anthropologist Arief Anshory Yusuf will present this Development Economics Seminar on 'On socio-economic predictors of religious intolerance: Evidence from a large scale longitudinal survey in the biggest muslim democracy'

Motivated by increasing religious intolerance over the past decade, Arief Anshory Yusuf studies socio-economic covariates of individual-level religious intolerance in Indonesia, the biggest Muslim democracy in the world.

He uses a panel data for 2007 and 2014 of more than 20.000 adult individuals representing 83% of the population and apply fixed-effect regression analysis to identify relevant socio-economic characteristics highly associated with religious intolerance at the individual-level.

The survey questions on willingness will utilize to accept someone with different faith to live in the same neighbourhood, rent a house, marry relatives, get children and build a worship place in the neighbourhood; as our measures of religious intolerance.

Higher individual income and educational attainment are positively correlated with the tolerance level listed by some. At the same time, a higher level of self-declared religiosity is negatively correlated with tolerant attitude. For location-specific characteristics, higher income inequality and the extent of poverty in location where an individual lives are associated with higher level of religious intolerance.

These patterns are generally robust across different measures of religious intolerance, although there is a heterogeneity of the correlations magnitudes, where these covariates have smallest correlations with willingness to accept interfaith marriage in the family.

About the speaker

Professor Arief Anshory Yusuf is a professor of economics at the Department of Economics, Padjadjaran University. He received his bachelor in economics from Padjadjaran University, M.Sc from University College London (UCL), UK, and PhD from the Australian National University (ANU), Australia.

His research focuses on the economics of the environment and natural resource management as well as on the various aspects of economic development, such as poverty and inequality. He is a Visiting Fellow at The Australian National University and King’s College London and a visiting professor at Rikyo University, Tokyo. Professor Yusuf is a member of the Indonesian Young Academy of Science (ALMI) and the current President of Indonesian Regional Science Association (IRSA)..

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