Jean-Paul Carvalho

Associate Professor of Economics and Interim Director of the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, Irvine.

I am an economist working on game-theoretic approaches to social dynamics. This has taken me to new and emerging fields, including:

• Cultural transmission of preferences 
• Group identity 
• Social norms 
• Religious belief and organization
• Social learning in ‘large worlds’

My work has covered a number of subjects, including identity and economic underrepresentation, cultural resistance to social norms, social movements with reference-dependent preferences, coordination failure under heterogeneity, belief formation in groups, cultural polarization and religious radicalization. The aim is to understand the cultural foundations of economic and political institutions.

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.

I was educated at Oxford (DPhil, MPhil, Monash scholar) and the University of Western Australia.

• Elite Identity and Political Accountability: A Tale of Ten Islands (with Christian Dippel), Revise and resubmit, The Economic Journal [Older NBER working paper]
• Identity and Underrepresentation  (with Bary Pradelski)
• The Economics of Religious Communities: Social Integration, Discrimination and Radicalization (with Michael Sacks)
• Resisting Education (with Mark Koyama).  [Under Revision]

• 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.

• Advances in the Economics of Religion, co-edited with Sriya Iyer and Jared Rubin, Palgrave 2019.

• IMBS Conference on Identity, Conflict and Cooperation, April 2018
• INET Conference, Panel on Identity, Norms, Narratives, Edinburgh, October 2017 

Course in Evolution and Learning in Games

Syllabus 

Lectures

1. Foundations I, Evolution and Learning in Games
2. Foundations II, Evolution and Learning in Games
3. Population Games I
4. Population Games II
5. Revision Protocols and Evolutionary Dynamics
6. Properties of Deterministic Dynamics
7. Global Convergence I
8. Global Convergence II
9. Local Stability
10. Nonconvergence
11. Cultural Transmission
12. Stochastic Evolution and Stationary Distributions
13. Stochastic Stability
14. Applications of Stochastic Stability
15. Heterogeneous Agents

Religion & Cultural Transmission (ASREC Grad Workshop)

                 Lecture

                 Note on Replicator Dynamic