Research

Publications

• • Aparajita Dasgupta, Farhan Majid, and Wafa Hakim Orman. The nutritional cost of beef bans in India. Journal of Development Economics, 163:103104, 2023.

  • Azita Amiri, Brinda Mahalingam, Anton Derbes, Jordan Haney, Susan Alexander, and Wafa Hakim Orman. The impact of chronic ambient exposure to pm2. 5 and ozone on asthma prevalence and copd mortality rates in the southeastern united states. Annual Review of Nursing Research, Volume 38: Nursing Perspectives on Environmental Health, page 15, 2019.

  • Wafa Hakim Orman. Religiosity and financial crises in the united states. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 58(1):20–46, 2019.

  • Brinda Mahalingam & Wafa Hakim Orman. GDP and energy consumption: A panel analysis of the US. Applied Energy, Volume 213, 1 March 2018, Pages 208-218.

  • James C. Cox & Wafa Hakim Orman. Trust and Trustworthiness of Immigrants and Native-Born Americans, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Volume 57, Pages 1-8 (working paper version)

    • Appendices: Survey Questions and Subject Instructions

  • “Playing with Other People’s Money: Contributions to Public Goods by Trustees” with Michael D. Makowsky and Sandra Peart,

  • Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Volume 53, Pages 44-55. (working paper version)

  • "Consequences of deviating from predicted CEO labor market compensation on long-term firm value"" with Eric Fong, Xuejing Xing, and William I. Mackenzie, Journal of Business Research, Volume 68, Issue 2, Pages 299-305

  • "Does Heterogeneity Help in Overcoming the Public Goods Dilemma in a Sequential Contribution Environment?,"  with Utteeyo Dasgupta, Group Decision and Negotiation, 1–21. (working paper version)

  • North, Charles M., Wafa Hakim Orman, and Carl R. Gwin. “Religion, Corruption, and the Rule of Law.” Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. Volume 45, Issue 5, pages 757-779. (working paper version)

• Ravi Patnayakuni, Nainika Patnayakuni, and Wafa Orman (2011) "Who are our students? A profile of IS majors." ICIS 2011 Proceedings. Paper 8.

• Wafa Hakim Orman, 2008. "Giving It Away for Free? The Nature of Job-Market Signaling by Open-Source Software Developers," Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, Berkeley Electronic Press, vol. 8(1), pages 1875-1875.

  • Wafa Hakim Orman , Charles M. North, and Carl R. Gwin (2008) "Going to College, Getting a Job: What Happens when Mom and Dad Take Their Kids to Church" in What Americans Really Believe, Rodney Stark, ed. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press.

  • Charles M. North, Wafa Hakim Orman , and Carl R. Gwin (2008) "Giving: The Rich, the Poor, and the Widow's Mite." in What Americans Really Believe, Rodney Stark, ed. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press.

Working Papers

• "After the Farm Crisis: Religiosity in the Rural United States"

• "Competition and compatibility between proprietary and open two-sided platforms"

  • "Religious, Human, and Physical Capital: Are They Complementary Factors in Economic Growth?," with Charles M. North and Carl R. Gwin, presented at ASSA meetings , New Orleans, 2008

  • "Mom and Dad Took Me to Church: Religion and Educational Attainment," with Charles M. North and Carl R. Gwin, presented at Society of Labor Economists Annual Meeting, Boston, 2009

  • "Many Mansions? Religion and Housing Markets," with Carl R. Gwin and Charles M. North, presented at American Real Estate Society Conference in Monterey, CA, April 2009

  • "Understanding Religious Choice: A Product Attributes Model Application," with Carl R. Gwin, Carol F. Gwin, and Charles M. North, presented at ASSA meetings, Atlanta, 2010

  • "Going to School, Getting a Job: What Determines Business Students' Job Prospects?" with Ravi Patnayakuni, presented at the Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, 2010

  • "Choosing A Community: Providing local public goods when opting out is an option," presented at the Western Economic Association International Annual Meeting, Portland, 2010 and Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture Annual Conference 2011, Washington DC (as "Survival of the Strictest? An Experimental Examination of Club Goods")

    • Appendix B: Proofs of propositions 2--5. 

  • "Consequences of Deviating From Predicted CEO Labor Market Compensation on Long-Term Firm Value," with Eric Fong, W. Ivey Mackenzie, and Xuejing Xing.

  • "Religion, Domestic Violence, and the Economic Crisis," with Marlena Primeau and Ann Bianchi, presented at ASREC 2014.

  • "State-level Discrimination Charges Filed with the EEOC: Cyclical and Temporal Factors, Group Size, and the Effect of 9/11," with Cynthia Gramm and John Schnell. Online appendix with variable definitions and robustness checks

  • The Long-Term Effect of Early Life Exposure to Cow Slaughter Bans,” with Farhan Majid.