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Conference Program
ASREC 2012 (Friday, March 09, 2012 - Sunday, March 11, 2012)
Friday, March 09, 201210:30AM - 12:00PM1A: Denominational behavior| | Papers: | | |
Entry in Local Religious Markets | | | Robbie Mochrie (Heriot Watt University) | | | Neil Ferguson (Heriot-Watt University) | | | John Sawkins (Heriot-Watt University) | | |
Clergy Regulation of a Local Religious Market | | | Paul Olson (Briar Cliff University) | | |
Exporting Christianity: Governance and Doctrine in the Globalization of US Denominations | | | Gordon Hanson (University of California, San Diego) |
10:30AM - 12:00PM1B: Pro-social behavior 1: Rules and norms| | Papers: | | |
What Can We Know about the Origins of Social Preferences, and Why Does It Matter? | | | Dan Friedman (University of California, Santa Cruz) | | |
Rules, Rule-Following and Cooperation | | | Erik Kimbrough (Simon Fraser University) | | | Alexander Vostroknutov (Maastricht University) | | |
(Bad) Luck or (Lack of) Effort?: Comparing Social Sharing Norms between US and Europe | | | Roman Sheremeta (Chapman University) | | | Pedro Rey-Biel (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) | | | Neslihan Uler (University of Michigan) |
1:15PM - 2:45PM2A: Book Manuscripts in Economic History and Religion| | Papers: | | |
Kibbutz: The Economics of a Social Experiment | | | Ran Abramitzky (Stanford University) | | |
The Economics of Conflict in the Name of God | | | Murat Iyigun (University of Colorado) | | |
God, Power, and Printing: The Institutional Roots of Economic Success and Stagnation in the Middle East and Europe until 1600 | | | Jared Rubin (Chapman University) |
1:15PM - 2:45PM2B: Quantitative studies of religious behavior| | Papers: | | |
Strategic Behavior and Organizational Structure in Religious Bodies: How it Impacts on the Age of Leaders | | | Don Wittman (University of California, Santa Cruz) | | |
Bishops, Nuns and Catholic Schools: The Unintended Consequences of Vatican II | | | Osea Giuntella (Boston University) | | | Rania Gihleb (Boston University) | | |
From Empty Pews to Empty Cradles: Fertility Decline Among European Catholics | | | Eli Berman (University of California San Diego) | | | Laurence Iannaccone (Chapman University) | | | Giuseppe Ragusa (Libera University) |
3:00PM - 4:30PM3B: Experiments in the Economics of Religion| | Papers: | | |
Free Riding with Other People’s Money: Contributions to Public Goods by Trustees | | | Wafa Orman (University of Alabama, Huntsville) | | | Sandra Peart (University of Richmond) | | | Michael Makowsky (Towson University) | | |
Yeast | | | Mark Isaac (Florida State University) | | | Douglas Norton (Florida State University) | | |
The Parable of the Great Banquet: Insights from Laboratory Economics | | | Douglas Norton (Florida State University) | | | Mark Isaac (Florida State University) |
3:00PM - 4:30PM3A: Innovations in the Measurement of Religion| | Papers: | | |
The Measurement Archive: Assessing the Measurement of Religion | | | Christopher Bader (Chapman University) | | |
Innovations in Survey Design and Measures: Preliminary Progress at the ARDA | | | Roger Finke (Pennsylvania State University) | | |
Religion and Public goods provision: Evidence from Catholicism and Islam | | | Carolyn Warner (Arizona State University) |
4:45PM - 5:45PM4A: ASREC Evening Social6:00PM - 7:00PM4B: Keynote Address: Q&A Session with Vernon Smith, Larry Iannaccone, Roger Finke, and Sriya Iyer Chair: Jared Rubin (Chapman University) 9:00PM - 10:45PM4C: ASREC Late Night Social
Saturday, March 10, 20128:30AM - 10:00AM5A: Historical roots of religious tradition| | Papers: | | |
Resisting Education | | | Jean-Paul Carvalho (University of California, Irvine) | | | Mark Koyama (George Mason University) | | |
Taxes, Lawyers, and the Decline of Witchcraft in France | | | Mark Koyama (George Mason University) | | | Noel Johnson (George Mason University) | | |
Transcending Incentives and Bias in the Quest for the Historical Jesus | | | Sean F. Everton (Naval Postgraduate School) |
8:30AM - 10:00AM5B: Religion and Economic Outcomes in South Asia| | Papers: | | |
Institutions and Literacy in the Princely States | | | Latika Chaudhary (Scripps College) | | | Jared Rubin (Chapman University) | | |
Muslim Legislators and Hindu-Muslim Violence | | | Lakshmi Iyer (Harvard Business School) | | | Sonia Bhalotra (University of Bristol) | | | Irma Clots-Figueras (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid ) | | |
Veterans, Organizational Skill and Ethnic Cleansing: Evidence from the Partition of South Asia | | | Saumitra Jha (Stanford Graduate School of Business) |
10:15AM - 11:45AM6B: Church, state and local control| | Papers: | | |
Risk Averse and Trustful? Religious Activity, Risk Assessment, and Economic Behavior Empirical Evidence from German Survey Data | | | Anja Koebrich Leon (Leuphana University) | | |
Craft Guilds and Risk-Sharing in Late Medieval England: Links Between Social and Economic Change | | | Gary Richardson (University of California, Irvine) | | |
The Political Economy of Church and State | | | Charles North (Baylor University) | | | Carl Gwin (Baylor University) |
10:15AM - 11:45AM6A: Pro-social behavior 2: Charity and cooperation| | Papers: | | |
The effects of religious and ethnic diversity on charitable giving | | | James Andreoni (University of California, San Diego) | | | Abigail Payne (McMaster University) | | |
On the Norms of Charitable Giving in Islam: A Field Experiment | | | Gerhard Riener (University of Jena) | | | Fatima Lambarraa (University of Göttingen) | | |
Religion and cooperative attitudes: Evidence from Indonesia | | | Arya Gaduh (University of Southern California) |
1:00PM - 2:30PM7B: Expressions of preferences| | Papers: | | |
An Empirical Investigation of Preference Falsification, Internet Access, and Institutional Change | | | Michael Makowsky (Towson University) | | |
Skin Color Discrimination in Early twentieth century America | | | Roy Mill (Stanford University) | | | Luke Stein (Stanford University) | | |
The Gods are Watching - An Experimental Study in Burkina Faso | | | Myriam Hadnes (Goethe University, Frankfurt) |
1:00PM - 2:30PM7A: Religion as a factor in economic development| | Papers: | | |
Communication and Marketing of Services by Religious Organizations in India | | | Sriya Iyer (University of Cambridge) | | | Chander Velu (University of Cambridge) | | | Abdul Mumit (University of Cambridge) | | |
On the Road to Heaven: Historical Origins of the Religious Economic Gap in Egypt | | | Mohamed Saleh (University of Southern California) | | |
Bank-Insured RoSCA for Microfinance: Experimental Evidence in Poor Egyptian Villages | | | Mahmoud El-Gamal (Rice University) | | | Mohamed El-Komi (University of Durham) | | | Dean Karlan (Yale University) | | | Adam Osman (Yale University) |
2:45PM - 4:15PM8B: Consequences of the Catholic Church Abuse Scandal| | Papers: | | |
Does religion foster pro-social behavior? Evidence from an Event Study of the Catholic Clergy Sexual Abuse Scandals in the US | | | Ricardo Perez-Truglia (Harvard University) | | | Nico Bottan (University of Illinois) | | |
Negative Publicity and Catholic Schools | | | Rey Hernández-Julián (Metropolitan State College of Denver) | | | Angela K. Dills (Providence College) | | |
Substitution and Stigma: Evidence on Religious Competition from the Catholic Sex-Abuse Scandal | | | Dan Hungerman (University of Notre Dame) |
2:45PM - 4:15PM8A: Costly Signaling: Theory and Evidence| | Papers: | | |
Evolution and hazing motivation: A large-scale experimental investigation | | | Aldo Cimino (University of California, Santa Barbara) | | |
Rebuilding Damaged Trust with Apology, Promises, and Atonement | | | Eric Schniter (Chapman University) | | | Roman Sheremeta (Chapman University) | | | Daniel Sznycer (University of California, Santa Barbara) | | |
TBC | | | Hilliard Kaplan (University of New Mexico & Santa Fe Institute) | | |
Trust, Reciprocity and Rules | | | Timothy Shields (Chapman University) | | | Thomas Rietz (University of Iowa) | | | Eric Schniter (Chapman University) | | | Roman Sheremeta (Chapman University) |
4:30PM - 5:30PM9A: ASREC Saturday Evening Social
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