Economics of Religion and Culture.

• Position: Conferences

An NBER Conference on "Economics of Religion and Culture," organized by Research Associate Daniel Hungerman of University of Notre Dame, took place in Cambridge on March 8 and 9, 2013. These papers were discussed:

* Thomas Triebs and Justin Tumlinson, Ifo Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, "Learning Capitalism the Hard Way - Evidence from Germany's Reunification"

* Saumitra Jha and Aprajit Mahajan, Stanford University, "Trade, the State, and Inter-Religious Trust: Evidence from South Asia"

* Asaf Zussman, Hebrew University, "The Effect of Political Violence on Religiosity: Evidence from Israel"

* Elaine Liu, University of Houston; Juanjuan Meng, Peking University; and Tao-Yi Wang, National Taiwan University, "Confucianism and Preferences: Evidence from Lab Experiments in Taiwan and China"

* Angela Dills and Rey Hernandez-Julian, Metropolitan State University of Denver, "Religiosity and State Welfare"

* Daniel Chen, ETH Zurich, and Susan Yeh, George Mason University, "How Do Rights...