Jean-Paul Carvalho
Economist working on game-theoretic approaches to social dynamics with a focus on culture, identity, and religion. Associate Professor of Economics and Logic & Philosophy of Science (by courtesy) at the University of California, Irvine and Interim Director of the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences.
Co-editor of the volume Advances in the Economics of Religion (Palgrave 2019), 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 Center for Global Peace & Conflict Studies (CGPACS) and the Religious Studies Program at UC Irvine.
Educated at the University of Oxford (DPhil, MPhil) and the University of Western Australia.
Working Papers
- The Economics of Religious Communities: Social Integration, Discrimination and Radicalization (with Michael Sacks)
- Elite Identity and Political Accountability: A Tale of Ten Islands (with Christian Dippel), [Older NBER working paper]
- Resisting Education (with Mark Koyama). [Under Revision]
- Identity-Dependent Inequality (with Bary Pradelski).
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