Opening Remarks: James Doti, President of Chapman University

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Friday, March 9

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Registration Main Hallway

10:15-10:30am

Opening Remarks: James Doti, President of Chapman University

Sessions:

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10:30am-12:00pm

1A Denominational Behavior

1B Pro-Social Behavior 1: Rules and Norms

1:15-2:45pm

2A Book Manuscripts in Economic History and Religion

2B Quantitative Studies of Religious Behavior

3:00-4:30pm

3A Innovations in the Measurement of Religion

3B Experiments in the Economics of Religion

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4:45-5:45pm

ASREC Evening Social

6:00-7:00pm

Keynote Address

Q&A Session with Vernon Smith, Larry Iannaccone, Roger Finke, and Sriya Iyer

9:00-10:45am

ASREC Late Nate Social

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Saturday, March 10

Registration Main Hallway

Sessions:

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8:30-10:00am

5A Historical roots of Religious Tradition

5B Religion and Economic Outcomes in South Asia

10:15-11:45am

6B Church, State and Local Control

1:00-2:30pm

7A Religion as a Factor in Economic Development

7B Expressions and Preferences

2:45-4:15pm

8A Costly Signaling: Theory and Evidence

8B Consequences of the Catholic Church Abuse Scandal

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4:30-5:30pm

ASREC Saturday Evening Social

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1A Denominational Behavior
Room: Wallace All Faiths Chapel
Chair: Larry Iannaccone
Discussant: Anne Bradley
“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)
1B Pro-Social Behavior 1: Rules and Norms
Room: Wilkinson Founders Chapel
Chair: Roman Sheremeta
Discussant: David Porter
“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)
“Religion and cooperative attitudes: Evidence from Indonesia”
Arya Gaduh (University of Southern California)

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2A Book Manuscripts in Economic History and Religion
Room: Wallace All Faiths Chapel
Chair: Gary Richardson
Discussant: Michael Breen
“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)
2B Quantitative Studies of Religious Behavior
Room: Wilkinson Founders Chapel
Chair: Paul Olson
Discussant: Wafa Orman
“Strategic Behavior and Organizational Structure in Religious Bodies: How it Impacts on the Age of Leaders”
Don Wittman (University of California, Santa Cruz)
“Biships, Nuns, and Catholic Schools: The Unintended Consequences of Vatican II”
Osea Guintella (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)

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3A Innovations in the Measurement of Religion
Room: Wallace All Faiths Chapel
Chair: Eli Berman
“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)
3B Experiments in the Economics of Religion
Room: Wilkinson Founders Chapel
Chair: Eric Schniter
Discussant: Brock Stoddard
“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)

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5A Historical Roots of Religious Tradition
Room: Wallace All Faiths Chapel
Chair: Charles North
Discussant: Robbie Mochrie
“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)
5B Religion and Economic Outcomes in South Asia
Room: Wilkinson Founders Chapel
Chair: Sriya Iyer
Discussant: Myriam Hadnes
“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 (Standford Graduate School of Business)

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6B Church, State and Local Control
Room: Wallace All Faiths Chapel
Chair: Carolyn Warner
Discussant: Mark Koyama
“Risk Averse and Trustful? Religious Activity, Risk Assessment, and Economic Behavior Empirical Evidence from German Survey Data”
Anja Koebrich Leon (Leuphana Univerisity)
“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)

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7A Religion as a Factor in Economic Development
Room: Wallace All Faiths Chapel
Chair: Anja Koebrich Leon
Discussant: Lakshmi Iyer
“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)
7B Expressions of Preferences
Room: Wilkinson Founders Chapel
Chair: Roger Finke
Discussant: Andrea Molle
“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 (Goeth University, Frankfurt)

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8A Costly Signaling: Theory and Evidence
Room: Wallace All Faiths Chapel
Chair: Mark Isaac
Discussant: Doug Norton
“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)
“Risk and the Evolution of Human Exchange”
Hillard Kaplan (University of New Mexico & Santa Fe Institute)
Eric Schniter (Chapman University)
Vernon Smith (ESI, Chapman University)
Bart Wilson (ESI, Chapman University)
“Trust, Reciprocity and Rules”
Timothy Shields (Chapman University)
Thomas Rietz (University of Iowa)
Eric Schniter (Chapman University)
Roman Sheremeta (Chapman University)
8B Consequences of the Catholic Church Abuse Scandal
Room: Wilkinson Founders Chapel
Chair: Chris Bader
Discussant: Mike McBride
“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)

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Abramitzky, Ran 2A

Bader, Christopher 3A

Berman, Eli 2B

Carvalho, Jean-Paul 5A

Chaudhary, Latika 5B

Cimino, Aldo 8A

El-Gamal, Mahmoud 7A

Everton, Sean F. 5A

Finke, Roger 3A

Friedman, Dan 1B

Gaduh, Arya 1B

Giuntella, Osea 2B

Hadnes, Myriam 7B

Hanson, Gordon 1A

Hernández-Julián, Rey 8B

Hungerman, Dan 8B

Isaac, Mark 3B

Iyer, Lakshmi 5B

Iyer, Sriya 7A

Iyigun, Murat 2A

Jha, Saumitra 5B

Kaplan, Hillard 8A

Kimbrough, Erik 1B

Koyama, Mark 5A

Leon, Anja Koebrich 6B

Makowsky, Michael 7B

Mill, Roy 7B

Mochrie, Robbie 1A

North, Charles 6B

Norton, Douglas 3B

Olson, Paul 1A

Orman, Wafa 3B

Perez-Truglia, Ricardo 8B

Richardson, Gary 6B

Rubin, Jared 2A

Saleh, Mohamed 7A

Schniter, Eric 8A

Sheremeta, Roman 1B

Shields, Timothy 8A

Warner, Carolyn 3A

Wittman, Don 2B

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