New publication: Favoring your in-group can harm both them and you: ethnicity and public goods provision in China
This paper, which is joint with César Mantilla, Ling Zhou, Charlotte Wang, Donghui Yang and …
Research on the economics of religion
In the last few years I have been involved in a range of research on …
New publication: Evaluating social contract theory in the light of evolutionary social science
This paper, which is joint with Jonathan Stieglitz and Karine Van Der Straeten, is forthcoming …
Trust in the image of God: Links between religiosity and reciprocity in Haiti
This paper, which is joint with Emmanuelle Auriol, Diego Delissaint, Maleke Fourati and Pepita Miguel-Florensa, …
Economics and infectious disease
Here are two of my published papers on the economics of infectious disease (both co-authored …
God insures those who pay? Formal insurance and religious offerings in Ghana.
This paper, which is joint with Emmanuelle Auriol, Julie Lassébie, Amma Panin and Eva Raiber, …
Joint Ownership of Production Projects as a Commitment Device against Interest Groups
This paper with Nicoletta Berardi has been published in the Journal of Institutional and Theoretical …
Parent-Offspring Conflict over Mate Choice: an experimental study in China
This paper, the result of our project with Jeanne Bovet, Eva Raiber, Weiwei Ren and …
Religion and Entrepreneurship: A Match Made in Heaven?
Just published in Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions 175 (2016), pp. 201-219. The pdf is …
Migration and the equilibrium prevalence of infectious diseases
This paper, joint with Alice Mesnard, is forthcoming in the Journal of Demographic Economics, and …