»ASREC Annual Conference

Thursday, 11^th of April 2013

5:00pm-7:00pm
Registration

Friday, 12^th of April 2013

8:30am - 10:00am
1A: Philosophy and Religion: From Delos to Adam Smith

Chair: Larry Iannaccone, Chapman University
Discussant: James Montayne, Consulting Economist

• The Human Person in Economic Theory from the Scholastics, to Smith and Marx
  John Larrivee, Mount St. Mary’s University

• Gods of Trust: Ancient Delos and the Modern Economics of Religion
  Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Stanford University

• How We Forgot What Adam Smith Said about Religion
  Robert I. Mochrie, Heriot-Watt University

8:30am - 10:00am
1B: Religious Capital

Chair: Guido Heineck, University of Bamberg
Discussant: Chander Velu, University of Cambridge

• The Intergenerational Transmission of Religious Capital
  David Voas, University of Essex
  Ingrid Storm, University of Manchester

• In What Is Religious Human Capital Fixed?
  Paul Firenze, Providence College

• Religious Competition, Religious Capital, and Disagreement Payoffs
  Marc von der Ruhr, St. Norbert College
  Joseph Daniels, Marquette University

10:15am - 12:15am
2A: Religion and Socio-Economic Outcomes

Chair: Saumitra Jha, Stanford University
Discussant: G. Osea Giuntella, Boston University

• The Implications of Cultural Background on Labour Market Choices: The Case of Religion and Entrepreneurship
  Luca Nunziata, University of Padua
  Lorenzo Rocco, University of Padua

• Belief Systems and Wealth Outcomes
  Feler Bose, Alma College

• Religion and Health: A Country Level Study
  Hossein Radmard, West Virginia University
  Alberto Batinti, West Virginia University

• Faith-based Organizations and the Provision of Children Services in Uasin Gishu County, Eldoret Kenya: A Collaboration of NGOs and Universities in Providing Services
  Emily J. Choge Kerama, Moi University

10:15am - 12:15pm
2B: Laboratory Experiments

Chair: Gerhard Riener, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Discussant: Justin Rao, Microsoft Research

• Yeast
  Mark Isaac, Florida State University
  Douglas Norton, Florida State University

• Are Persons with Religious Commitment and Faith Less Prone to Deception and Duplicity?
  Angelina Nikitenko Christie, The Catholic University of America
  Michael Welker, Franciscan University of Steubenville

• Gender Differences in the Dictator Experiment: Evidence from the Matrilineal Mosuo and the Patriarchal Yi
  Binglin Gong, Fudan University
  Huibin Yan, Chun-Lei Yang, Academia Sinica

1:00pm - 2:30pm
3A: Religion, Values and Environmentalism

Chair: David Voas, University of Essex
Discussant: TBA

• Does Religion Affect Individual Propensity to Trust? A Multilevel Analysis
  Paulina Stepien, University College London

• Religious Loyalty and Acceptance of Corruption
  Moamen Gouda, Philipps-Universität Marburg
  Sang-Min Park, University of Kassel

• Environmentalism and Religion: Substitutes or Complements?
  Feler Bose, Alma College

1:00pm - 2:30pm
3B: The Medium of Religion

Chair: Christopher Bader, Chapman University
Discussant: Zsoka Koczan, University of Cambridge

• The Secret World
  William Bainbridge, National Science Foundation

• Conflict over the Use of Religious Symbols in Popular Culture: A Case Study
  John W. Heeren, California State University San Bernardino

• Lifting the Veil: An Analysis of the Influence of the Media on the Treatment of Islam and Muslims in Britain and the West
  Laurens de Rooij, Durham University

1:00pm - 2:30pm
3C: Religiosity and Economic Institutions

Chair: Charles North, Baylor University
Discussant: Cihan Artunc, Yale University

• After the Farm Crisis: Religion in the Rural United States
  Wafa Hakim Orman, University of Alabama in Huntsville

• Resilient Religiosity under Increased Public Spending: Evidence from School Choice in Late 19^th c. France
  Raphael Franck, Bar Ilan University
  Noel D. Johnson, George Mason University

• Trade and Geography in the Origins and Spread of Islam
  Alireza Naghavi, University of Bologna
  Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University and NBER
  Giovanni Prarolo, University of Bologna

2:45pm - 4:15pm
4A: Religion and Growth

Chair: Mukesh Eswaran, University of British Columbia
Discussant: Alireza, Naghavi, University of Bologna

• Religion and Attitudes Affecting Economic Growth
  Charles North, Baylor University
  Elizabeth A. Dratz, Ataturk University

• The Effect of Cultural Differences on Economic Growth and Institutional Formation
  Michelle Albert Vachris, Christopher Newport University
  Justin P. Isaacs, Hampden-Sydney College

• Hate Crimes in India: An Economic Analysis of Violence and Atrocities against Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
  Smriti Sharma, University of Delhi

2:45pm - 4:15pm
4B: Integration and Immigration

Chair: Jean-Paul Carvalho, University of California, Irvine
Discussant: Hossein Radmard, West Virginia University

• Individuals, Groups and the Errors of Forced Integration
  Heath Spong, University of Western Sydney

• Why Does the Health of Immigrants Deteriorate?
  G. Osea Giuntella, Boston University

• Does Integration Increase Life Satisfaction?
  Zsoka Koczan, University of Cambridge

2:45pm - 4:15pm
4C: International Religious Freedom

Chair: Michael McBride, University of California, Irvine

• Methodology of Tracking Global Religious Restrictions and Hostilities
  Angelina Theodorou, Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life

• Rising Tide of Restrictions on Religion in World and US
  Brian Grim, Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
  Peter Henne, Miller Center for Public Affairs, University of Virginia

• The Policy Realism of International Religious Freedom
  Dwight Bashir, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom

4:30pm - 6:20pm
5A: Philanthropy and Pro-Social Behaviour

Chair: Daniel Hungerman, University of Notre Dame
Discussant: Dalibor Rohac, King’s College, London

• Are Religious Giving and Participation Substitutable? A Rational Choice Model Approach
  Augustine Denteh, University of Akron

• Does a Sermon Impact Generosity? An Experiment Using the Dictator Game
  Paul J. Olson, Briar Cliff University

• Love Thy Neighbour – Religion and Pro-Social Behaviour in Germany
  Guido Heineck, University of Bamberg

• Intervention Efficiency, Morality and Entitlement Reform
  Earl L. Grinols, Baylor University

• Altruism and the Preference for Income Redistribution across Generations
  Lisa Wilder, Albright College
  Victor Forte, Albright College

4:30pm - 6:00pm
5B: Religion and Social Behaviour

Chair: Evelyn Lehrer, University of Illinois, Chicago
Discussant: Wafa Hakim Orman, University of Alabama Huntsville

• Sacrifice, Stigma, and Free-Riding on Alcoholics Anonymous (AA): A New Perspective on Behaviour Change in Self-Help Organizations for Addiction
  Anna Lembke, Stanford University

• Holy Matrimony, Batman! Why Do the Devout Pay So Much for Marriage?
  Brian Hollar, Marymount University

• Religion and the Politics of Sex
  Stephen Baskerville, Patrick Henry College

4:30pm - 6:00pm
5C: Economic History I.

Chair: Mark Koyama, George Mason University
Discussant: Raphael Franck, Bar Ilan University

• The God of Your Fathers
  Warren Anderson, University of Michigan-Dearborn

• New Media, Religion, and Economic Change: Printing and the Protestant Reformation
  Jeremiah Dittmar, American University

• Technology Shocks, Labour Productivity, and Son Preference: The Long-Term Impact of Historical Textile Production in China
  Melanie Xue, George Mason University

6:30pm - 7:30pm
Keynote Address:

Chair: Larry Iannaccone, Chapman University
Speaker: Carmel Chiswick

8:00pm
ASREC Reception

Saturday, 13^th of April 2013

8:30am - 10:00am
6A: The Roots of Religious Violence and Terrorism

Chair/ discussant: Eli Berman, University of California San Diego

• A Club Model Analysis of Mobilization in Violent Insurgency Conflict: The Case of the Afghan Mujahideen, 1978-1992
  Joseph West, University of Arizona
  Michael McBride, University of California, Irvine

• Social Movements, Fundamentalists, and Cosmic Warriors: Three Theories of Religious Activism and Violence
  Heather S. Gregg, Naval Postgraduate School

• A Social Network Theory of Religious Extremism and Violence
  Sean F. Everton, Naval Postgraduate School

8:30am - 10:00am
6B: Economic History II.

Chair: TBA
Discussant: TBA

• Legal Centralization and the Rise of the Secular State
  Mark Koyama, George Mason University, Center for Study of Public Choice
  Noel Johnson, George Mason University, Center for Study of Public Choice

• Divided Landownership as Tax Shelter in Imperial China
  Helen Yang, George Mason University, Center for Study of Public Choice

• The Printing Press, Reformation, and Legitimization
  Jared Rubin, Chapman University

10:15am - 12:15am
7A: The Language of Religion

Chair: William Bainbridge, National Science Foundation
Discussant: Carrie Miles, Empower International Ministries

• The Construction of Gender and Family Discourses in Turkish Mosque Sermons
  Umut Korkut, Glasgow Caledonian University
  Hande Eslen-Ziya, Bahcesehir University

• A Textual Analysis of the Social Psychological Structure of the Torah
  Tara Kahn, Wesleyan University

10:15am - 12:15am
7B: Historical and International Perspectives on Culture and Identity

Chair: TBA
Discussant: Mark Koyama, George Mason University

• Abolishing Transitional Gains Traps
  Nathanael Snow, George Mason University

• The Persistence of the Inquisitorial Mind: Long-run Effects of the Spanish Inquisition
  Jordi Vidal-Robert, University of Warwick

• The Yellow Veiled Jewess: Stigma or Identity in 15^th c. Italy
  Leslie Yarmo, Salisbury University

• Killing Our Spirituality: The Basel Missionaries and the Bakossi Man in Muetug
  Roland Ndille, University of Buea, University of the Free State

10:15am - 12:15am
7C: Field Experiments

Chair: Mark Isaac, Florida State University
Discussant: Angelina Nikitenko Christie, The Catholic University of America

• On the Norms of Charitable Giving in Islam: A Field Experiment
  Gerhard Reiner, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
  Fatima Lambarraa, CRC Poverty, Equity and Growth, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

• Status and Coordination Failure
  Karla Hoff, World Bank
  Priyanka Pandey, World Bank
  Benjamin Brooks, Princeton University

• The Economics of Faith: An Experiment on Time Preference Two Weeks before the Apocalypse
  Justin M. Rao, Microsoft Research
  Ned Augenblick, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
  Jesse Cunha, Naval Post Graduate Academy
  Ernesto Dal Bo, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

• Risk Aversion, Health Behaviour and Religiousness: Analysis using a Sample of Danish Twins
  Jytte Seested Nielsen, COHERE, University of Southern Denmark, Newcastle University Business School
  Mickael Bech, COHERE, University of Southern Denmark
  Kaare Christensen, The Danish Twin Registry
  Astrid Kiil, KORA – The Danish Institute for Local and Regional Government Research
  Niels Christian Hvidt, Health, Man and Society

1:00pm - 2:30pm
8A: Political Institutions and Outcomes

Chair: Charles North, Baylor University
Discussant: Paulina Stepien, University College London

• Theocracy
  Metin M Coşgel, University of Connecticut
  Thomas J. Miceli, University of Connecticut

• Religious Legitimacy and Economic Success
  Jared Rubin, Chapman University

• Trade Shocks and Pro-Democracy Mass Movements: Evidence from South Asia’s Independence Struggle
  Saumitra Jha, Stanford University

1:00pm - 2:30pm
8B: Gender and Norms

Chair: Sriya Iyer, University of Cambridge
Discussants: Karla Hoff, World Bank and Sriya Iyer, University of Cambridge

• A Gender-Based Theory of the Origin of the Caste System of India
  Mukesh Eswaran, University of British Columbia
  Chris Bidner, University of New South Wales

• The Labour Market Behaviour of Married Women with Young Children in the US: Have Differences by Religion Disappeared?
  Evelyn L. Lehrer, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Yu Chen, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Hook up Culture, Same-Sex Marriage, and the Collapse of Religion in the West
  Carrie A. Miles, Empower International Ministries

1:00pm - 2:30pm
8C: Beliefs

Chair: Robbie Mochrie, Heriot Watt University
Discussant: TBD

• Up from Scarcity: The Groundwork of the Economics of Morality and Religion
  James Montanye, Consulting Economist

• The Economic Origins of the Evil Eye Belief
  Boris Gershman, American University

• Global Capitalism Self-Help Literature, and the Spiritualization of Lifestyles in Egypt
  Jeffrey Kenney, DePauw University

2:45pm - 4:15pm
9A: Legal and Religious Institutions in the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East

Chair/Discussant: Jared Rubin, Chapman University

• Legal Pluralism and Beratlı Merchants in the Ottoman Empire: The Price of Legal Institutions
  Cihan Artunç, Yale University

• Dispute Resolution in Ottoman Courts: A Quantitative Analysis of Litigations in 18^th c. Katamonu
  Metin M. Coşgel, University of Connecticut
  Boğaç Ergene, University of Vermont

• Was the Middle East’s Economic Descent a Legal or Political Failure? Debating the Islamic Law Matters Thesis
  Adeel Malik, University of Oxford

2:45pm - 4:15pm
9B: Game Theory, Evolution and Religion

Chair: Michael McBride, University of California, Irvine
Discussant: Michael Makowsky, Johns Hopkins University

• An Evolutionary Study of Religious Fundamentalism
  Jonathan Gair, University of Cambridge
  Daniel Friedman, University of California – Santa Cruz
  Sriya Iyer, University of Cambridge
  Chander Velu, University of Cambridge

• The Two Sides of Envy
  Boris Gershman, American University

• The Application of Game Theory to the Analysis of Moral Preferences
  Paul Bennett, George Mason University

• Culture, Community and Segregation
  Bryony Reich, University of Cambridge

2:45pm - 4:15pm
9C: Religion and Politics

Chair/Discussant: Stephen Baskerville, Patrick Henry College

• Religion as a Commitment Device: The Economics of Political Islam
  Dalibor Rohac, King’s College London

• American Evangelism and the Political Trajectory of Alberta, Canada
  Clark Banack, York University

• Thresholds in Religion: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
  Mario Ferrero, University of Eastern Piedmont

4:30pm - 6:00pm
10A: Norms and Culture in Religious Organizations

Chair: Boris Gershman, American University
Discussant: Bryony Reich, University of Cambridge

• Faith-Based Organizations
  Jean-Paul Carvalho, University of California, Irvine

• Craft Guilds and Risk-Sharing in Late Medieval England: A Link between Social and Economic Change
  Gary Richardson, University of California, Irvine

• Toward an Economic Theory of Religious Authority
  Michael McBride, University of California, Irvine

4:30pm - 6:00pm
10B: Discontent and Terrorism

Chair: Eli Berman, University of California San Diego
Discussant: TBA

• Discontent in the Arab World: Religion Revival or Political Economics?
  Karam Dana, University of Washington Bothell

• Economic Causes of Terrorism: Evidence from Rainfall Variation and Terrorist Attacks in Pakistan
  Shan Aman Rana, University of Cambridge

• ‘How Women Engage in Homegrown Terrorism’: A Rational Choice Model for Extreme Deviance
  Alessandra L. Gonzalez, City University of New York, Baylor University
• Joshua D. Freilick, City University of New York, National Consortium for the Studies of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)
  Steven M. Chermak, Michigan State University, START

4:30pm - 6:00pm
10C: New and Forthcoming Data and Tools on the ARDA (Association of Religion Data Archives)

Chair: Roger Finke, Pennsylvania State University and the ARDA.com

• A Quick Review of 5.2 Million Books: Creating new Data with Ngrams
  Nathaniel Porter, Pennsylvania State University and the ARDA.com

• Developing New Online Educational Resources
  Jennifer M. McClure, Pennsylvania State University and the ARDA.com

• New Sources of National and International Data
  Robert R. Martin, Pennsylvania State University and the ARDA.com

• Creating a Measurement Wizard
  Christopher Bader, Chapman University and the ARDA.com

6:00pm – 7:00pm
Poster sessions

• Stealing more is better?  Marginal Deterrence in Islamic Criminal Law of Theft
  Moamen Gouda, Philipps-Universität Marburg

• Economics and Islam: East and West in Enterprise
  Bloor Garreth, University of Cape Town

• The Role of Intellectual Networks in the Formation and Reception of Catholic Social Teaching
  Cimino Richard, Religion Watch

• A Perspective on Emerging Economic Problems and the Role of Religion
  Khalid Mahmood, Quaid-i-Azam University

• A Religious Explanation for the Divergence Between China and Western World
  Zhang Qingjin, The Institute of Rural Development, Shandong Academy of Social Sciences (China)

Sunday, 14^th of April 2013

10:15am – 12:15 pm
11A: Religion, Economics and Culture in Jewish Communities – ASSJ session in honour of Carmel and Barry Chiswick

Chair: Robbie Mochrie, Herriot-Watt University
Discussant: TBA

• The Religiously Inefficient Family and American Jewish Intermarriage
  Bruce A. Phillips, Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles

• Denominational Variations across Jewish Communities in the United States
  Harriet Hartman, Rowan University, ASSJ
  Ira Sheskin, Jewish Demography Project, Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, University of Miami

• Philanthropic Decisions of American Jews: The Influence of Religious Identity on Charitable Choices
  Arnold Dashefsky, Berman Institute – North American Jewish Data Bank, University of Connecticut

10:15am - 12:15pm
11B: Divine Economics

Chair: Sriya Iyer, University of Cambridge
Discussant: Zsoka Koczan, University of Cambridge

• Progress in Divine Economics
  Syed Nisar Hussain Hamdani, Kashmir Institute of Economics, University of AJ&K
  Nazish Rashid, University of AJ&K
  Fozia Munir, University of AJ&K

• Faith Based After Life Incentives in Philanthropic Behaviour
  Muhammad Asghar Tashfeen, Allama Iqbal Open University
  Tariq Siddique, Government Gordon College Rawalpindi/ Islamabad
  Dr. Muhammad Ali Bhatti, Forman Christian College (Chartered University)

• Spiritual Human Capital as Determinant of Workers Wellbeing
  Ashar Awan, University of AJ&K
  Syed Nisar Hussain Hamdani, Kashmir Institute of Economics, University of AJ&K

• Religious Beliefs and Economic Behaviours: Empirical Evidence from Pakistan
  Syed Akhtar Hussain Shah, National Institute of Management Karachi
  Syeda Asifa Arif, University of AJ&K
  Dr. Tasnim Fatima, Federal Urdu University Karachi

10:15am - 12:15pm
11C: Conflict

Chair: Raphael Franck, Bar Ilan University
Discussant: Smriti Sharma, Delhi School of Economics

• Hierarchy, Returns to Scale, and Conflict
  Michael D. Makowsky, Paul Smaldino, Johns Hopkins University

• Swords and Plowshares: Jewish Rebel Governance in British Mandate Palestine, 1920-1948
  David Muchlinski, Arizona State University

• Naxalite Insurgency and the Economic Benefits of a Unique Robust Security Response
  Saurabh Singhal, University of Southern California

ASREC held a successful 2012 meeting at Chapman University.  The program brought together world experts in economics, religion and culture from across the social sciences to debate new research findings.  The keynote colloquium featured a Q&A with four distinguished scholars from across the range of specialties within the field of economics and religion. They were Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith (Chapman University, ESI), Sriya Iyer (University of Cambridge), Laurence Iannaccone (Chapman University, IRES), and Roger Finke (Pennsylvania State University).

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