Jean-Paul Carvalho
Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences
University of California, Irvine
Associate Professor of Economics and
Interim Director, Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences
UC Irvine
I am an economist and game theorist working on an expanded model of human behavior in economics.
This has led me to new and emerging fields, including:
- Cultural transmission of preferences
- Group identity
- Social norms
- Religious belief and organization
- Social learning in ‘large worlds’
I am particularly interested in insights into social dynamics, economic development and political economy.
Aside from my primary appointment, I am co-editor of the volume Advances in the Economics of Religion (Palgrave 2019), Board Member of the Association for the Study of Religion, Economics and Culture (ASREC), Associate of the Network for Economic Research on Identity, Norms and Narratives (ERINN), Faculty Fellow of the Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies (AALIMS), Faculty Affiliate of the Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization Center (ACO), the Center for Global Peace & Conflict Studies (CGPACS) and the Religious Studies Program at UC Irvine.
My formal education was received at Oxford (DPhil, MPhil, Monash scholar) and the University of Western Australia.
Working Papers
- Identity and Underrepresentation (with Bary Pradelski)
- Elite Identity and Political Accountability: A Tale of Ten Islands (with Christian Dippel), [Older NBER working paper]
- The Economics of Religious Communities: Social Integration, Discrimination and Radicalization (with Michael Sacks)
- Resisting Education (with Mark Koyama). [Under Revision]
Publications
- Religious Clubs: The Strategic Role of Religious Identity, forthcoming in Iyer, Rubin and Carvalho (Eds.), Advances in the Economics of Religion, 2019, Palgrave.
- Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements: The Islamic Revival in Egypt (with Christine Binzel). The Economic Journal, 2017,127, 2553–2580. [working paper] Online Appendix Press Release
- Sacrifice and Sorting in Clubs. Forum for Social Economics (special issue on The Economics of Religion), forthcoming. [working paper]
- Coordination and Culture. Economic Theory, 2017, 64(3), 449–475 . [working paper]
- Education, Identity and Community: Lessons from Jewish Emancipation (with Mark Koyama and Michael Sacks), Public Choice, 2017, 171(1), 119–143. [working paper]
- Jewish Emancipation and Schism: Economic Development and Religious Change (with Mark Koyama). Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 44(3), 562-584. [working paper]
- Identity-Based Organizations. American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 2016, 106(5), 410–414. [working paper]
- Veiling. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2013, 128(1), 337-370.
- Instincts and Institutions: The Rise of the Market (with Mark Koyama) in William N. Butos (ed.), Advances in Austrian Economics, 2010, 13, 285-309.
Books
- Advances in the Economics of Religion, co-edited with Sriya Iyer and Jared Rubin, Palgrave 2019.
Contact
University of California Irvine, 3151 Social Science Plaza, Irvine CA 92697