Session 2A Intergenerational values
Room: Kennedy
Chair: Sriya Iyer (University of Cambridge)
Discussant: Ira Gang (Rutgers University)
Schooling and intergenerational transmission of values
Marina Della Giusta
(University of
Reading)
Nigar Hashimzade (University of Reading)
Looking backward again: Are we less religious than our parents?
David Voas (Institute for Social Change,
University of
Manchester)
The transmission of norms: Evidence from internal migration in 19th century
France
Raphael Franck
(Bar
Ilan
University)
Session 2B Experiments in the economics of religion
Room: Jefferson
Chair: Wafa Hakim Orman
(University of
Alabama in
Huntsville)
Discussant: Brock Stoddard (Indiana University)
Why Don't People Trust Atheists? Religious Belief, Cooperation and Supernatural Punishment
Omar Sultan Haque
(Harvard
University)
The Influence of Grant Restrictions on Charitable Giving: An Experimental Approach
Sara Helms
(Samford
University)
Session 2C Megachurches and free-riding
Room: Lincoln
Chair: Robert Mochrie (Heriot-Watt University)
Discussant: Maryam H'madoun (Universiteit Antwerpen)
Why Churches Need Free-riders
Mike McBride
(University of
California,
Irvine)
The Rise of Megachurches: Innovation, Stagnation, and the Future of Christianity in the
United States and the
United Kingdom
Nicole Overley
(Johns
Hopkins
University)
Examining Megachurch Growth: Free Riding, Fit, and Faith
Marc von der Ruhr
(St.
Norbert
College)
Session 2D Faith-inspired organizations & service delivery
Room: Roosevelt
Chair: Jill Olivier (World Bank)
Discussant: Joana Silva (World Bank)
Private Costs of Schooling in Public, Private, and Faith-Based Schools in Ghana
Franck Adoho
Evaluation of Fe y Alegria schools in Latin America
Juan Carlos Parra-Osorio (World Bank)
Faith-inspired Service Delivery in Burkina Faso and Ghana
Quentin Wodon (World Bank)
Session 2E Responding to an economic downturn
Room: Arlington
Chair: Christoper Bader (Baylor University)
Discussant: Susan Yeh (Duke University)
Analysis of the Relationship Between Religious Participation and Economic Recessions
Reginald Harris
(Augusta
State
University)
Simon Medcalfe (Augusta State University)
The Effects of Sympathy on Income Redistribution Preferences and on Tax Morale
Roberta Calvet
(Georgia
State
University)
Do Black Mayors Improve Black Employment Outcomes? Evidence from Large
U.S. Cities
Ilia Rainer
(George
Mason
University)
John V.C. Nye (George Mason University)
Thomas Stratmann (George Mason University)
1:15 PM
Session 3A Charity and altruism
Room: Kennedy
Chair: Rowena Pecchenino (NUI Maynooth)
Discussant: Marina Della Giusta (University of Reading)
Intergenerational Transfers and Altruism
Asia Sikora
(Cornell
University)
H. Elizabeth Peters (Cornell University)
Religion and Philanthropy: Charitable Choices Among American Jews
Arnold Dashefsky
(University of
Connecticut)
Bernard Lazerwitz (Bar Ilan University)
The emergence of Fair Trade as a development channel
Robert Mochrie
(Heriot-Watt
University)
The Influence of Religiosity on Charitable Behavior: A COPPS Investigation
Sara Helms
(Samford
University)
Jeremy Thornton (Samford University)
Session 3B Measuring information and innovation flows
Room: Jefferson
Chair: Rachel McCleary (Harvard University)
Discussant: John Sawkins (Heriot-Watt University)
Book Translations as Idea Flows: The effects of the collapse of Communism on the diffusion of knowledge
Izi Sin
(Stanford
University)
Ran Abramitzky (Stanford University)
Printing and Protestants: Reforming the Economics of the Reformation
Jared Rubin
(California
State
University,
Fullerton)
Knocking on Heaven's Door? Protestantism and Suicide
Sascha Becker
(University of
Warwick)
Ludger Woessmann (University of Munich)
Session 3C Values and violence
Room: Lincoln
Chair: Mukesh Eswaran (University of British Columbia)
A Signalling Model of Terrorist Violence in
Northern Ireland
Neil Ferguson
(Heriot-Watt
University)
Computational Models of Religious Terrorists and Their Organizations
Ronald Horst
(University of
Maryland)
Relative Deprivation, Social Learning and Rebellion against Authority
Christopher Bader (Baylor University)
Andrea Molle (Baylor University)
Session 3D Faith and Vulnerable Groups
Room: Roosevelt
Chair: Quentin Wodon (World Bank)
Discussant: Andreas Hipple (CIFA)
Faith-Inspired Organizations and Development in
Cambodia
Claudia Zambra
(WFDD)
Katherine Marshall (WFDD and Georgetown University)
Faith, Culture, and Female Genital Circumcision in Africa
Regina Gemignani (World Bank)
Does Zakat Reach the Poor? Evidence from
Yemen
Joana Silva (World Bank)
Session 3E Religious Beliefs and Economic Outcomes
Room: Arlington
Chair: Michael McGinnis (Indiana University)
Discussant: Brooks Hull (University of Michigan)
Afraid of God or Afraid of Man: How religion shapes attitudes toward free riding and fraud
Maryam H'madoun (Universiteit Antwerpen)
Does Obscenity Law Corrode Moral Values and Does It Matter? Evidence from 1958-2008
Daniel Chen (Duke University)
Susan Yeh (Duke University)
Activating Social Preferences: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Doctors in Tanzania
Kenneth Leonard (University of Maryland)
J. Michelle Brock (University of Maryland)
Andreas Lange (University of Hamburg)
3:00 PM
Session 4A Adam Smith, theology, and political economy
Room: Kennedy
Chair: Paul Oslington (Australian Catholic University)
The Future Hope in Adam Smith's System
Paul Oslington (Australian Catholic University)
Theology and Adam Smith
Robert Nelson (University of Maryland)
Was Smith an Economist of Religion?
Larry Witham
Session 4B Faith, hope and morality
Room: Jefferson
Chair: James Halteman (Wheaton College)
Discussant: Robert Mochrie (Heriot-Watt University)
Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here?
Rowena Pecchenino (NUI Maynooth)
Distinguishing the 'Real' from the 'Fiduciary' Economy: Faith-Based Investment after the Crisis
Charles McDaniel (Baylor University)
Self-Awareness of Culpability: The Mainspring of Moral Behavior?
Mukesh Eswaran (University of British Columbia)
Session 4C New religious communities
Room: Lincoln
Chair: Mario Ferrero (University of Western Ontario)
Discussant: Mark Koyama (University of York)
Reflections on Hindu Demographics in America: An Initial Report on the First American Hindu Census
Gordon Melton (Institute for the Study of American Religion)
Constance A. Jones
Emergent (USA) and Amahoro Africa: Religious Responses to Globalization
April Vega (The Catholic University of America)
Secular Elites - Religious Masses; Religious Elites - Secular Masses: The Turkish Case
Resit Ergener
(Bogazici
University)
Session 4D Values, Faith, and Development
Room: Roosevelt
Chair: Claudia Zambra (WFDD)
Discussant: Regina Gemignani (World Bank)
Assessing the role of Faith-Based Organizations in Health in Sub-Saharan Africa
Jill Olivier (World Bank)
Religiosity and Religious Diversity: Results from the World Values Survey
Quentin Wodon (World Bank)
Session 4E Religion and the Economic Environment
Room: Arlington
Chair: Paul Wilson (University of Arizona)
Discussant: Neil Meredith (University of Georgia)
Church and State
Alex Tokarev (The King's College)
Environmentalism and Religion: Substitutes or Complements?
Feler Bose (Alma College)
Religion Policy and Faith-Based Organizations: Charting the Shifting Boundaries between Church and State
Michael McGinnis (Indiana University)
4:45 PM
ASREC Early Evening Reception
6:00 PM
ASREC Keynote Address #1
9:00pm
ASREC Late Evening Social
Saturday, April 9
8:30 AM
Session 5A Shaping Values
Room: Kennedy
Chair: Sascha Becker (University of Warwick)
Discussant: Maryam Dilmaghani (Saint Mary's University)
Do Policies Affect Preferences? Evidence from Random Variation in Abortion Jurisprudence
Susan Yeh (Duke University)
Daniel Chen (Duke University)
Markets and Morality: How Does Competition Affect Moral Judgment?
Daniel Chen (Duke University)
What Will the Neighbors Think? The Effect of Moral Communities on Cohabitation
Martha Sherman (Baylor University)
Scott Draper (Baylor University)
Did Freemasonry Solve the Public Good Problem? An Examination of the Historical Expansion of American Education in the Western United States
Daniel Egel (University of California, Berkeley)
Session 5B Experiments in religion and public goods
Room: Jefferson
Chair: Wafa Hakim Orman (University of Alabama in Huntsville)
Discussant: Jason Aimone (George Mason University)
The Effect of Religious Context on Prosociality in an Economic Game
Ali Ahmed (Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study)
Mandated Volunteering: An Experimental Approach
Sara Helms (Samford University)
Erik Angner (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Brian Scott (Washington College)
Sarah Culver (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Survival of the Strictest? An Experimental Examination of Club Goods
Wafa Hakim Orman (University of Alabama in Huntsville)
Session 5C Religious and secular markets
Room: Lincoln
Chair: Gordon Melton (Institute for the Study of American Religion)
Discussant: Silke Bechler (University of Heidelberg)
Competition and Competitive Markets: Toward Improving the Discourse
Roger Conover (Azusa Pacific University)
Profit: The Indicator of Creative Service in the Commercial World
Gareth Bloor (University of Cape Town)
A Silent Battle. Theorizing the Effects of Competition between Churches and Secular Institutions
Joerg Stolz (ORS UNIL)
Session 5D Faith and economy
Room: Roosevelt
Chair: Robert Nelson (University of Maryland)
Discussant: Zahra Siddique (Institute for the Study of Labor)
Anabaptist Economics: Radical Modeling or Integrative Relevance
James Halteman (Wheaton College)
Benin's 'Madoff Crisis': Role of the Celestial Church of Christ
Scott Brunger (Maryville College)
Embedded Social Capital Networks: Biblical Foundations and Business Practices
Paul Wilson (University of Arizona)
10:15 AM
Session 6A Religion and the well-being of children
Room: Kennedy
Chair: Daniel Hungerman (University of Notre Dame)
The Impact of Religion on Youth in Disadvantaged Families
Dean Lillard (Cornell University)
Religious Participation and Risky Behaviors among Adolescents
Jennifer M. Mellor (College of William and Mary)
Beth A. Freeborn (College of William and Mary)
Does Religious Proscription Cause People to Act Differently? Evidence from a Theory Based Test
Daniel Hungerman (University of Notre Dame)
Session 6B Religion and politics
Room: Jefferson
Chair: Colin Ash (University of Reading)
Discussant: Roberta Calvet (Georgia State University)
Toward a Theory of 'Polity Replication'
Joshua Ambrosius (West Virginia State University)
The Evolution of the God Gap in America's Political Landscape: Evidence up to the 2008 Election
Anthony Gill (University of Washington)
The Development and Implications of a Global Economic IslamicityIndex
Scheherazade Rehman (George Washington University)
Session 6C Authority and miraculous experience
Room: Lincoln
Chair: Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye (Harvard University)
Discussants: Kim-Kwong Chan (Hong Kong Christian Council) and Murray Rubinstein (Baruch College)
Miraculous Christianity and Grassroots Practice in the Republican Era
Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye (Harvard University)
Counting Your Blessings: Empirical Study of Healing, Miracles, and the Spread of the True Jesus Church Movement in East Asia
Jiexia (Elisa) Zhai (Miami University)
The Establishment and Expression of Religious Authority - Research on the Shankou Church of H City in N Province
Chen Bin (Hunan Normal University)
Autochthonous and Multicultural: Borrowed Beliefs and Boundary-Keeping in the True Jesus Church
David Reed (University of Toronto)
1:15 PM
Session 7A Religious practice and well being
Room: Kennedy
Chair: Sara Helms (Samford University)
Discussant: Carlo Reggiani (University of Manchester)
Religiosity, Earnings and Subjective Wellbeing in Canada
Maryam Dilmaghani (Saint Mary's University)
Labor Income and Religiosity: Evidence from Survey Data
Neil Meredith (University of Georgia)
Rational Praying: A Note on the Causal Effect of Prayer on Religious/Spiritual Health
Timothy Brown (University of California, Berkeley)
How does religious belief and practice affect happiness? A European perspective
Alejo Jose G. Sison (Universidad de Navarra)
Juncal Cunado
Reyes Calderon
Session 7B Developments in the ARDA
Room: Jefferson
Chair: Christopher Bader (Baylor University)
Theories, Concepts and Measures: Connecting Abstract Ideas with Measures in a Wiki-Based System
Christopher Bader (Baylor University)
theARDA's Learning Center: Teaching Religious Research Techniques to Students
Kevin Dougherty (Baylor University)
Cross-National Data and Resources at theARDA
Robert Martin (Pennsylvania State University)
Jennifer McClure (Pennsylvania State University)
New Features and Tools available at theARDA
Steve Merino
Session 7C Social institutions in India
Room: Lincoln
Chair: Kenneth Leonard (University of Maryland)
Divine Innovation: Religion and Service Provision by Religious Organizations in India
Sriya Iyer (University of Cambridge)
Chandler Velu (University of Cambridge)
Jun Xue
Tirthankar Chakravarty (University of California, San Diego)
Consumption and Social Identity: Evidence From India
Zahra Siddique (Institute for the Study of Labor)
Melanie Khamis (Institute for the Study of Labor)
Nishith Prakash (Cornell University)
Parental Son Preference and Children's Housework: the Case of India
Tin-chi LIn (Princeton University)
Alicia Adsera (Princeton University)
Session 7D Religious markets and competition
Room: Roosevelt
Chair: Michael McBride (University of California, Irvine)
Discussant: Marc von der Ruhr (St. Norbert University)
Lemons, Cherries, and Church: Modeling Adverse Selection and Secular Competition in the Market for Religious Goods and Services
Christopher Young (Seton Hall University)
Pawel Fracz (Seton Hall University)
God around the world
Paul Froese (Baylor University)
Reason, Revelation, and Economic Conscientious Objection: An Analysis of Tariq Ramadan’s Collectivist Economic Thought
Chase Knowles (Claremont Graduate University)
3:00 PM
Session 8A Special Session: Building an academic career in religion, economics and culture
Room: Kennedy
Chair: Marc von der Ruhr (St. Norbert University)
Graduate study, mentoring, and the job search
Michael Makowsky (Towson University)
Building a sustainable research agenda
Charles North (Baylor University)
Networking and outreach
Anthony Gill (University of Washington)
Preparing applications for tenure and promotion given the interdisciplinary nature of our work
Michael McBride (University of California, Irvine)
4:45 PM
ASREC Keynote Address #2
Keynote Address: Virtual Religion: Four Methods of Computer Simulation
Bill Bainbridge, National Science Foundation
6:00 PM
ASREC Early Evening Reception
Sunday, April 10
8:30 AM
Session 9A Political Economy
Room: Kennedy
Chair: Robert Mochrie (Heriot-Watt University)
Religious Freedom in the World: A Quantitative Approach
Francois Facchini (Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne)
Marie-Estelle Binet (University of Rennes 1)
What Did We Learn about the Moral and Social Impacts of Markets from the Non-Market Experiments of the 20th Century
John Larrivee (Mount St Mary's University)
Do our economic choices make us happy? Economic evidence, Buddhist Theory and Practice
Colin Ash (University of Reading)
Session 9B Religion and Education
Room: Jefferson
Chair: Jorg Stolz (ORS UNIL)
The Effect of Education on Religion: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws
Daniel Hungerman (University of Notre Dame)
Religious Pluralism, Religious Market Shares, and the Demand for Religious Schooling
Danny Cohen-Zada (Ben-Gurion University)
Todd Elder (Michigan State University)
What determines religious school choice? Theory and evidence from rural Bangladesh
Rupa Chakrabarti (University of Reading)
Mohammad Niaz Asadullah (University of Reading)
Nazmul Chaudhury (World Bank)
Session 9C Religious and secular markets
Room: Roosevelt
Chair: Christopher Young (Seton Hall University)
Discussant: Roger Conover (Azusa Pacific University)
The Politics of Whiteness: The Making of American White Supremacy
Catlyn Keenan (Frontrange Community College)
The Condom Conundrum: When Popes become a Social Problem
John Kinkel (Oakland University)
Ideology in Economics: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead
Mickael Melki (Paris I - Pantheon Sorbonne)
Session 9D Globalization and modernity
Room: Lincoln
Chair: Charles North (Baylor University)
Discussant: Timothy Brown (University of California, Berkeley)
Home Bias and Religious Attitudes
Carlo Reggiani (University of Manchester)
Martin Leroch (University of Hamburg)
Gianpaolo Rossini (University of Bologna)
Eugenio Zucchelli (University of York)
The Devil is in the Definition: Setting the Normative Case for Globalization Will Safeguard Character and Community
Gareth Bloor (University of Cape Town)
Religious seminaries or Western-style University? College Choice and Subjective Expectations in Urban Pakistan
Basit Zafar (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Adeline Delavande (Rand Corporation)
10:15 AM
Session 10A Faith based organizations
Room: Kennedy
Chair: Larry Iannaccone (Chapman University)
Discussant: Feler Bose (Alma College)
Economic and Theological Issues in Contracting-out of Welfare and Labour Market Services: An Exploration of the Recent Australian Experience
Paul Oslington (Australian Catholic University)
Faith-Based Initiatives in Majority-Muslim Countries: Examples from the Arab Gulf Region
Alessandra Gonzalez (Baylor University)
Understanding Trust in a Segmented Society
Basit Zafar (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Adeline Delavande (Rand Corporation)
Session 10B Environmentalism and institutions
Room: Jefferson
Chair: Anthony Gill (University of Washington)
Discussant: Christopher Colvin (London School of Economics)
Environmental Religion and Church and State
Robert Nelson (University of Maryland)
Ideology and Cultural Change: A Theoretical Approach
Francois Facchini (Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne)
Mickael Melki (Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne)
Religion in the Emergence of Civilisation at Catalhoyuk and at Ubaid
Resit Ergener (Bogazici University)
Session 10C Relating God and money
Room: Roosevelt
Chair: Michael Makowsky (Towson University)
Discussant: Chase Knowles (Claremont Graduate University)
Contesting the Vedic Sacrifice in a Transcultural Public Square
Silke Bechler (University of Heidelberg)
From The Godfather to God as Father: The Currency of Transaction with the Divine and Its Implications for Human Relationships: An African Example
Carrie Miles (Chapman University)
The Role of Empathy and Sympathy in Tax Compliance: an Experiment
Roberta Calvet (Georgia State University)
