Avner Seror

Working papers

A Non-Parametric Approach to Heterogeneity Analysis, September 2025

The Moral Mind(s) of Large Language Models, April 2025

The Priced Survey Methodology: Theory, August 2024

Addiction and Illegal Markets, August 2024, with Daniel Chen, Shingo Ishiguro, and Sultan Mehmood, AI Generated Podcast

Semi-Parametric Approach to Behavioral Biases, January 2024

 Multi-candidate Political Competition and the Industrial Organization of Politics, with Thierry Verdier 

Publications

Culture, Institutions & the Long Divergence,  May 2023, with Alberto Bisin, Jared Rubin and Thierry Verdier, Journal of Economic Growth

Religious Rituals: Ramadan Fasting Increases Judicial Leniency, March 2023, with Daniel Chen and Sultan Mehmood, Nature Human Behaviour

Religious Leaders and Rule of Law, January 2023 (SIOE Ronald Coase Medal),  with Sultan Mehmood, Journal of Development Economics, Summary in Urdu (اُردُو)

Child Development in Parent-Child Interactions, September 2022, Journal of Political Economy, Online Appendix

A Theory of Cultural Revivals, April 2021, with Murat Iyigun and Jared Rubin, European Economic Review 

A Theory on the Evolution of Religious Norms and Economic Prohibition, September 2018, Journal of Development Economics, Online Appendix

Chapters

Religious legitimacy and the joint evolution of culture and institutions, 2019, with Alberto Bisin and Thierry Verdier, Advances in the Economics of Religion (Palgrave