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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

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

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, Brown University and NBER

                        NICHOLAS WILSON, Williams College

                        Identity, Parochial Institutions, and Occupational Choice: Linking the Past to the Present in the American Midwest

 

10:00 am         SHAWN KANTOR and ALEXANDER WHALLEY, UC, Merced and NBER

                        The Ascendancy of America's Colleges and Universities: Separating the Roles of Church and State

 

11:00 am         Break

 

11:30 am         DAN BENJAMIN, Cornell University and NBER

                        JAMES CHOI, Yale University and NBER

                        GEOFFREY FISHER, Cornell University      

                        Religious Identity and Economic Behavior

 

12:30 pm         Lunch

 

 1:30 pm          GORDON HANSON, UC, San Diego and NBER

                        CHONG XIANG, Purdue University and NBER

                        Exporting Christianity: Governance and Doctrine in the Globalization of Protestant Denominations

 

 2:30 pm          ROBERT WOODBERRY, University of Texas at Austin

                        Weber through the Back Door:

                        Protestant Competition, Elite Dispersion and the Global Spread of Democracy

 

 3:30 pm          Break

 

 4:00 pm          JAY HARTZELL, University of Texas at Austin

                        CHRISTOPHER PARSONS, University of North Carolina

                        DAVID YERMACK, New York University

                        Is a Higher Calling Enough?  Incentive Compensation in the Church

 

 5:00 pm          Adjourn

 

 6:00 pm          Group Dinner

Legal Sea Foods – Harvard Square

Charles Hotel

20 University Road

Cambridge, MA

  

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, Bar Ilan University

                        LAURENCE IANNACCONE, George Mason University

                        Why did Religiosity Decrease in the Western World during the Twentieth Century?

 

10:00 am         SASCHA BECKER, University of Stirling

                        LUDGER WOESSMANN, University of Munich

                        Dead End: Protestants and Suicide

 

11:00 am         Break

 

11:30 am         MURAT IYIGUN, University of Colorado

                        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

 

 2:30 pm          STELIOS MICHALOPOULOS, Tufts University 

                        ALIREZA NAGHAVI and GIOVANNI PRAROLO, University of Bologna

                        The Economic Origins of Islam:  Theory and Evidence

 

 3:30 pm          Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

10/13/09