Advances in the Economics of Religion

<div>1) Introduction</div><div>Jean-Paul Carvalho, Sriya Iyer, and Jared Rubin</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Part I: Theoretical Advances in the Economics of Religion</div><div><br></div><div>2) Religious Clubs: The Strategic Role of Religious Identity</div><div>Jean-Paul Carvalho</div><div><br></div><div>3) Spatial Models of Religious Market Competition: A Critical Assessment</div><div>Michael McBride</div><div><br></div><div>4) When Average is Irrelevant: Computational Modeling of Religious Groups</div><div>Michael D. Makowsky</div><div><br></div><div>5) The Intelligent Design of Religious Beliefs</div><div>Gilat Levy</div><div><br></div><div>6) Religion and Segregation</div><div>Ronny Razin</div><div><br></div><div>7) Religious and Cultural Leaders</div><div>Anja Prummer</div><div><br></div><div>8) Intermediated Social Preferences: Altruism in an Algorithmic Era</div><div>Daniel L. Chen</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Part II: Empirical Advances in the Economics of Religion<div><br></div><div>9) Religion and Demography</div><div>Sriya Iyer</div><div><br></div><div>10) Economics and Church State Research: Past, Present, Future</div><div>Dan Hungerman and Timothy Weninger</div><div><br></div><div>11) Protestants and Catholics and Educational Investment in Guatemala</div><div>Rachel M. McCleary and Robert J. Barro</div><div><br></div><div>12) The Religious Factor in Private Education in the United States</div><div>Danny Cohen-Zada and Moshe Justman</div><div><br></div><div>13) How Luther’s Quest for Education Changed German Economic History: 9+5 Theses on the Effects of the Protestant Reformation</div><div>Sascha O. Becker and Ludger Woessmann</div><div><br></div><div>14) Hindu-Muslim Violence in India: A Postscript From the 21st Century</div><div>Anirban Mitra and Debraj Ray</div><div><br></div><div>15) Religion and Conflict: A Quantitative Approach</div><div>José G. Montalvo and Marta Reynal-Querol</div><div><br></div><div>16) Why are Some Societies More Religious than Others?</div><div>Jeanet Sinding Bentzen</div><div><br></div>17) Socioeconomic Inequality across Religious Groups: Self-Selection or Religion-Induced Human Capital Accumulation? The Case of Egypt<div>Mohamed Saleh</div><div><br></div><div>18) Religion and the European Union</div><div>Benito Arruñada and Matthias Krapf</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Part III: Advances in Religion and Political Economy</div><div><br></div><div>19) The Political and Economic Consequences of Religious Legitimacy</div><div>Jared Rubin</div><div><br></div><div>20) Religious Legitimacy and the Joint Evolution of Culture and Institutions</div>Alberto Bisin, Avner Seror, and Thierry Verdier<div><br></div><div>21) Strategic Interactions between Religion and Politics: the Case of Islam</div><div>Jean-Philippe Platteau</div><div><br></div><div>22) State and Religion: An Economic Approach</div><div>Metin M. Coşgel and Thomas J. Miceli</div><div><br></div><div>23) A Great Academic Re-Awakening: The Return to a Political Economy of Religion</div><div>Anthony Gill</div><div><br></div><div>24) The State, Toleration, and Religious Freedom</div><div>Noel Johnson and Mark Koyama</div><div><br></div><div>25) Religiosity and Economic Performance: The Role of Personal Liberties</div><div>Laura Mayoral and Joan Esteban</div><div><br></div><div>26) Causes and Consequences of Monotheism in the Supply of Religion</div><div>Murat Iyigun</div><div><br></div>27) Religion, Political Power and Human Capital Formation: Evidence from Islamic History<div>Eric Chaney</div><div><br></div><div>28) Islam, Trade, and Innovation</div><div>Alireza Naghavi</div><div><br></div>