Religious Minorities and Public Service Provision: Evidence from 19th and early 20th Century Egypt

• In Event: Public Goods Provision

Brief Overview

The paper argues that competition created through foreign influence in education, between missionaries and ethno-religious minorities can enhance non-state public service provision by minorities if they face an existentialist threat.

Authors

• Ashrakat Elshehawy, Stanford University

• Mohamed Saleh, London School of Economics and Political Science