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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC
RESEARCH, INC.
Economics of Religion Conference
Jon Gruber and Daniel Hungerman,
Organizers
October 15 and 16, 2009
NBER
2nd Floor Conference Room
PROGRAM
THURSDAY,
OCTOBER 15:
8:15 am Shuttle Vans Depart from The Royal
Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:30 am Continental Breakfast
9:00 am KAIVAN
MUNSHI,
NICHOLAS WILSON,
10:00 am SHAWN KANTOR and ALEXANDER WHALLEY, UC,
The Ascendancy of America's Colleges and
Universities: Separating the Roles of Church and State
11:00 am Break
11:30 am DAN BENJAMIN,
JAMES CHOI,
GEOFFREY FISHER,
Religious
Identity and Economic Behavior
12:30 pm Lunch
CHONG XIANG,
Exporting Christianity: Governance and Doctrine in
the Globalization of Protestant Denominations
Protestant Competition, Elite Dispersion and the Global
Spread of Democracy
3:30 pm Break
CHRISTOPHER PARSONS,
DAVID YERMACK,
Is a Higher Calling Enough? Incentive Compensation in the Church
5:00 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm Group Dinner
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16:
8:15 am Shuttle Vans Depart from The Royal
Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:30 am Continental
Breakfast
9:00 am RAPHAEL
FRANCK,
LAURENCE IANNACCONE,
Why did Religiosity Decrease in the Western
World during the Twentieth Century?
10:00 am SASCHA BECKER,
LUDGER WOESSMANN,
Dead End:
Protestants and Suicide
11:00 am Break
11:30 am MURAT IYIGUN,
Monotheism (From
a Sociopolitical & Economic Perspective)
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm ERIK
MEYERSSON, Institute for International Economic Studies
Islamic Rule and
the Emancipation of the Poor and Pious
ALIREZA NAGHAVI and
GIOVANNI PRAROLO,
The Economic Origins of
Islam: Theory and Evidence
3:30 pm Adjourn