Journals

2023.  Religion, Covid-19 and Mental Health (with G. Bahal, K. Shastry and A. Shrivastava),  European Economic Review,  Volume160, November.

2022. 'Religion and Discrimination: A Review Essay of Persecution and Toleration: The Long Road to Religious Freedom'. Journal of Economic Literature, March, Volume 60, Number 1: 256-278.

2021. 'A Simulation Study of How Religious Fundamentalism Takes Root' (with J. Fan, D. Friedman, J. Gair, B. Redlicki and C. Velu), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 192, December: 465-481.

2021. 'Learning from Near-Misses from Covid-19' (with C. Velu). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, PNAS October 5, 2021 118 (40) e2108269118.

2020. 'Social Interactions, Ethnicity, Religion and Fertility in Kenya' (with M. Weeks), Journal of Demographic Economics, September, 86(3): 329-365.

2020. 'Culture and Colonial Legacy: Evidence from Public Goods Games' (with L. Chaudhary, J. Rubin and A. Shrivastava), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 173, May: 107-129.

2019.'Religion and Depression in Adolescence' (with J. Fruehwirth and A. Zhang), Journal of Political Economy, June, 127(3): 1178-1209.

2018. 'Religious Riots and Electoral Politics in India' (with A. Shrivastava), Journal of Development Economics, 131, March, pp. 104-122.

2016. 'The New Economics of Religion' Journal of Economic Literature, 54: 2, June, pp. 395-441 (lead article).

2014. ‘Communication and Marketing of Services by Religious Organizations in India’ (with C. Velu and A. Mumit) Journal of Business Research, 67, pp. 59-67.

2013. ‘Missing Women and India’s Religious Demography’ (with S. Joshi) Journal of South Asian Development 8(3), pp. 301-331.

2013. ‘Missing Women in the United Kingdom’ (with A. Adamou and C. Drakos) IZA Journal of Migration Volume 10, Issue 2.

2013. ‘The Economics of Consanguineous Marriages’ (with S. Joshi and Q. Do) Review of Economics and Statistics, July, 95(3), pp.904-918.

2012. ‘Dominance and Innovation: A Returns-Based Beliefs Approach’ (with C. Velu and J. Gair), Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, Volume 28, Issue 3, 264–281, May/June.

2007. ‘The Effectiveness of Jobs Reservation: Caste, Religion and Economic Status in India’ (with V. K. Borooah and A. Dubey), Development and Change, Volume 38, Number 3, May, pp. 423-445.

2006. ‘Real Options and Demographic Decisions’ (with C. Velu), Journal of Development Economics, Volume 80, Number1, June, pp. 39-58.

2005. ‘The Decomposition of Inter-Group Differences in a Logit Model: Extending the Oaxaca-Blinder Approach with an Application to School Enrolment in India’ (with V. Borooah), Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, Volume 30, Number 4, pp. 279-293.

2005. ‘Vidya, Veda and Varna: The Influence of Religion and Caste on Education in Rural India’ (with V. Borooah), Journal of Development Studies, Volume 81, Number 4, November, pp.1369-1404.

2005. ‘Social Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Development’ (with M. Kitson and B. Toh), Regional Studies, Volume 39, Number 8, November, pp. 1015-1040.

2005. ‘Religion, Literacy, and the Female-to-Male Ratio in India’, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 40, Number 5, pp. 419-427.

2004. 'The Risk of Child and Adolescent Mortality among Vulnerable Populations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil', (with M. Monteiro), Journal of Biosocial Science, pp.1- 24.

2003. ‘Religion, Reproduction and Development in Contemporary India’, Development, Volume 46, Number 4, December.

2002. ‘Religion and the Decision to use Contraception in India’, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 4, Number 1, pp. 711-722.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

2024., 'Religion and Employment in India' (with G. Bahal, U. Chandra and A. Shrivastava) In: Studies in Religion and the Everyday. Edited by: Farhana Ibrahim, Oxford University Press. 

2022. ‘Religion and Mental Health’ (with G. Rosso) in Springer Nature Handbook on Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Edited by Professor Klaus F. Zimmermann.

2020. 'The Economics of Religion in Developing Countries' in Religion and  Human Flourishing, edited by Adam Cohen, Baylor University Press.

2019. 'Religion and Demography' in Advances in the Economics of Religion, edited by J-P Carvalho, S. Iyer and J. Rubin. International Economic Association Series, Volume 158, Palgrave Macmillan.

2019. 'Introduction' (with J-P. Carvalho and J. Rubin) in Advances in the Economics of Religion, edited by J-P Carvalho, S. Iyer and J. Rubin. International Economic Association Series, Volume 158, Palgrave Macmillan.

2018. 'Religion and Institutions' in A Research Agenda for New Institutional Economics, edited by Claude Menard and Mary S. Shirley. Edward Elgar Publishing.

2013. ‘Why Marry a Cousin? Insights from Bangladesh’ (with S. Joshi and Q. Do).  In Marrying in South Asia, edited by Ravinder Kaur  and Rajni Parliwala, Orient Black Swan, pp. 208-233.

2009. ‘Gender, Religion and the Age at Marriage in India'. In M. Pal, P. Bharati, B. Ghosh and T. S. Vasulu eds. Gender and Discrimination: Health, Nutritional Status and Role of Women in India, Oxford University Press.

2008. ‘Religion and Economic Development’ In Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume eds., The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Second Edition, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

2006. ‘Human Capital’. In David A. Clark ed. The Elgar Companion to Development Studies. North-Holland.

Working Papers

Do Religious People Cope Better in a Crisis? Evidence from the Pandemic Lockdowns in the United Kingdom (with Shaun Larcom and Po Wen She), Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 2043, 2024. Also available as CEPR Discussion Paper DP18830. Column about this paper on VoxEU, 16 April 20204.

Economic Shocks and Religious Conflict in Medieval India (with Rohit Ticku and Anand Shrivastava), March 2024. CEPR Discussion Paper DP17986.  (Revise & Resubmit)

A City of God: Afterlife Beliefs and Job Support in Brazil (with Tiago Cavalcanti, Christopher Rauh, Christian Roerig and Maryam Vaziri), Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 2268, 2024. Also available as CEPR Discussion Paper DP17719. (Revise & Resubmit)

Divine Competition: Religious Organizations and Service Provision in India (with Chander Velu, Kishen Shastry and Melvyn Weeks), 2023.

Probabilistic Choice Models (with Jonathan Gair and Chander Velu), January 2021.

In progress: Gatherings and Epidemics (with Girish Bahal, Anand Shrivastava and Kishen Shastry)

In progress: China India Revisited (with Wei Xiong, Xu Yang and Dmitrii Petrukhin)

In progress: Religious Fluctuations over the Business Cycle (with Srinivasan Murali, Anand Kumar and Monisankar Bishnu)

In progress: Evaluating Economic, Religious and Environmental Message Framing on Climate Spending in India using Large Language Models (with Ramit Debnath)

In progress: Religion and Gender (with Eve Colson-Sihra)

In progress: Religion, Population and the Environment for V. Maltsev and N. Singh (eds) Economics, Religion and Public Policy

Other Writing

'Holy Wars? Temple Desecrations in Medieval India', IDEAS FOR INDIA, 27 March 2017.

'Temples and Economists', THE WHEEL publication, St. Catharine's College, June 2015.

'Faith, Fertility and the Field Economist', The British Academy Review, Number 7, pp. 33-35, 2003.

Journal Editorial Boards

Journal of Comparative Economics

Journal of Religion and Demography

Journal of Economics, Management and Religion 

Podcasts, Talks and Interviews

July 2021: A new digital publishing project - EXPeditions on The Economics of Religion 

March 2021 interview: Making Economic Sense of Religion - A Special Interview with Dr Sriya Iyer, The Review of Religions, 14 March 2021.

October 2020 podcast: Ideas of India: The Economics of Religion, Interview by Dr Shruti Rajagopalan, Mercatus Center, Washington DC.

April 2017 interview: http://www.ecnmy.org/engage/we-asked-economics-of-religion-professor-to-explain-what-her-subject-actually-means/

Book launch for The Economics of Religion in India, 9 August 2019, New Delhi, India