RESEARCH
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
WORKING PAPERS:
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
Attitudes as Assets, June 2024, with Daniel Chen, Sultan Mehmood and Shaheen Naseer
Legalized Same-Sex Marriage and Coming Out in America: Evidence from Catholic Seminaries, July 2023, with Rohit Ticku
Prosocial Vaccination, June 2022, with Bakhtawar Ali, Syngjoo Choi, and Jun Hyung Kim
Social Roles, Under Revision June 2022
Multi-candidate Political Competition and the Industrial Organization of Politics, with Thierry Verdier
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)