Jean-Paul Carvalho

 I am an economist working in the fields of Political Economy and Social Dynamics. 

Markets operate within an institutional framework, which is usually taken as given. My work examines how economic behavior is shaped by and in turn shapes the social-political environment, often combining game-theoretic models of population dynamics with historical analysis. This approach to political economy broadens the scope of economics to include social norms, culturally transmitted preferences and belief systems, and groups and networks. It draws upon and contributes to a number of emerging fields, including the economics of identity, culture, and religion. The aim of the research program is to better understand the forces governing large-scale economic, social, and political change. 

My work has been applied to the following topics:
 

• Social determinants of education/labor market outcomes
• Economic determinants of social institutions, including religion
• Structural inequality
• Political economy under diversity
• Extremism and Conflict

I am Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow of New College. Previously, I was Associate Professor at the University of California-Irvine in the Department of Economics and the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences. I have been a visiting scholar at Harvard, Stanford, NYU, and Warwick. 

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

• The Formation of Religious Beliefs and Preferences (with Michael McBride), forthcoming Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. 
• The Economics of Religious Communities (with Michael Sacks), Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 201. [working paper version]
• Markets and Communities: The Social Cost of the Meritocracy, forthcoming Journal of Institutional Economics. [working paper version]
• Elite Identity and Political Accountability: A Tale of Ten Islands (with Christian Dippel), The Economic Journal,  2020, 130, 1995–2029, [Online Appendix] 
• Cultural Transmission and Religion (with Alberto Bisin and Thierry Verdier), forthcoming in Handbook of Economics and Religion, ed. Robert M. Sauer, World Scientific.
• Religion and Terrorism: The Religious Utility Hypothesis forthcoming in Handbook of the Economics of Terrorism, A. Basuchoudhary and G. Schulze (Eds.), Cambridge University Press. 
• Sacrifice and Sorting in Clubs Forum for Social Economics, 2020, 49(4), 357-369. [working paper version]  
• Religious Clubs: The Strategic Role of Religious Identity, in Carvalho, Iyer and Rubin (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 version] [Online Appendix]
• Coordination and Culture. Economic Theory, 2017, 64(3), 449–475 . [working paper version]
• Education, Identity and Community: Lessons from Jewish Emancipation (with Mark Koyama and Michael Sacks), Public Choice, 2017, 171(1), 119–143. [working paper version]  
• Jewish Emancipation and Schism: Economic Development and Religious Change (with Mark Koyama).  Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 44(3), 562-584. [working paper version]
• Identity-Based Organizations. American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 2016, 106(5), 410–414. [working paper version]
• 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.

• Radicalization (with Michael Sacks), revise and resubmit The Economic Journal
• Identity and Underrepresentation: Interactions between Race and Gender  (with Bary Pradelski)
• Resisting Education (with Mark Koyama).  [Under Revision] 

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

• The Paths to Narrow Identities: A Comment on Dasgupta and Goyal's 'Narrow Identities', forthcoming in the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics [working paper version]
• 'What Should an Economist Know?', IEA World Congress, July 2021
• Norms of Identity, slides from the ERINN Social Norms Workshop, Nuffield College Oxford, June 2019
• An Interview with Thomas Schelling, Oxonomics, May 2007

Course in Evolution and Learning in Games

Syllabus 

Lectures

1. The Rational Agent and Its Limitations
2. The Interactive Knowledge Problem
3. Social Learning
4. Evolution in Games
5. Learning Protocols
6. Deterministic Dynamics
7. Evolutionary Stability
8. Local Stability
9. Cultural Transmission
10. Stochastic Dynamics
11. Stochastic Stability
12. Emergence of Segregation
13. Adaptive Play
14. Bargaining Conventions
15. Games Played on Networks
16. Heterogeneous Agents
17. Fast Convergence

Religion & Cultural Transmission (ASREC Grad Workshop)

Lecture

Note on Replicator Dynamic