Event Date: April 7, 2009 - 4:00 pm
Location: room 4004, 120 University Private,Social Sciences Building,
A talk by Eli Berman, Associate Professor of Economics, University of California-San Diego, and Research Director of International Security Studies, University of California Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation.
Registration is not required. This event will be in English.
Professor Berman‘s research interests include labor economics, labor markets and technological change, the economics of religion, economic demography, applied econometrics, economic growth and development, and environmental economics. Recent grants from the National Science Foundation (2002 and 2005) have enabled him to look closely at relationships between religion and fertility from an economic standpoint. His latest publication is “Religion, Terrorism, and Public Goods: Testing the Club Model” (with David Laitin) in the Journal of Public Economics (2008). Berman received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and was a National Bureau of Economic Research Sloan Fellow in 1999. His book Radical, Religious and Violent: The New Economics of Terrorism is forthcoming at the MIT Press.
This presentation will be based on a December 2008 working paper, co-authored with Jacob Shapiro of Princeton University and Joseph Felter of Stanford University.
Watch the video of this presentation (CPAC)