Jean-Paul Carvalho
Professor of Political Economy
University of Oxford
jean-paul.carvalho@economics.ox.ac.uk
@JeanPaulCarv
Bio
Jean-Paul Carvalho is Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford, Fellow of New College, and Director of the Oxford University Business Economics Programme (OUBEP).
His research examines the institutional drivers of economic performance. He is known for his contributions to the economics of social institutions, demonstrating how norms, culture, identity, and religion affect economic development, social conflict, and political dysfunction. His work has addressed critical challenges, including the political-economic risks of AI, economic integration by cultural minorities, and counter-radicalization.
At Oxford, Professor Carvalho co-founded the Political Economy seminar and is a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society. Previously, he held positions at UC Irvine, where he directed the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences (2017–2019), and was a visiting scholar at Harvard, Stanford, NYU, and Warwick. He was educated at Oxford (Monash Scholar) and the University of Western Australia.
Working Papers
The Political-Economic Risks of AI
Department of Economics Discussion Paper Series
Zero-Sum Environments, the Evolution of Effort-Suppressing Beliefs, and Economic Development
with Augustin Bergeron, Joseph Henrich, Nathan Nunn, Jonathan Weigel
Revise and resubmit, Review of Economic Studies
Prepared for The Handbook of Culture and Economic Behavior, Eds. Ben Enke, Paola Giuliano, Nathan Nunn, and Leonard Wantchekon
Publications
Intersectionality: Affirmative Action with Multidimensional Identities
with Bary Pradelski and Cole Williams
Management Science 71(5), 4495-4509.
[working paper version]
The Representation Dynamic and the 'Normalization' of Group Differences
with Bary Pradelski
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Forthcoming
with Mark Koyama and Cole Williams
Journal of the European Economic Association 22(6), 2024, 2549-2597.
with Michael Sacks
The Economic Journal 134(659), 2024, 1019-1068.
Failed Secular Revolutions: Religious Belief, Competition, and Extremism
with Jared Rubin and Michael Sacks
Public Choice, 2023.
Cultural Transmission and Religion
with Alberto Bisin and Thierry Verdier
The Economics of Religion (ed. R. Sauer), 2023. World Scientific.
Identity and Underrepresentation: Interactions between Race and Gender
with Bary Pradelski
Journal of Public Economics 216, 2022.
Markets and Communities: The Social Cost of the Meritocracy
Journal of Institutional Economics 18(3), 2022, 501-519.
The Formation of Religious Beliefs and Preferences
with Michael McBride
Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (ed. K.F. Zimmerman), 2022, Springer.
The Economics of Religious Communities
with Michael Sacks
Journal of Public Economics 201, 2021.
Elite Identity and Political Accountability: A Tale of Ten Islands
with Christian Dippel
The Economic Journal 130, 2020, 1995–2029.
Religion and Terrorism: The Religious Utility Hypothesis
Handbook of the Economics of Terrorism (eds. A. Basuchoudhary and G. Schulze), forthcoming, Cambridge University Press.
Sacrifice and Sorting in Clubs
Forum for Social Economics 49(4), 2020, 357-369.
Religious Clubs: The Strategic Role of Religious Identity
Advances in the Economics of Religion (eds: Carvalho, Iyer and Rubin), 2019, Palgrave.
Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements: The Islamic Revival in Egypt
with Christine Binzel
The Economic Journal 127, 2017, 2553-2580.
[working paper version] [Online Appendix]
Economic Theory 64(3), 2017, 449–475 .
Education, Identity and Community: Lessons from Jewish Emancipation with Mark Koyama and Michael Sacks
Public Choice 171(1), 2017, 119–143.
Jewish Emancipation and Schism: Economic Development and Religious Change
with Mark Koyama
Journal of Comparative Economics 44(3), 2016, 562-584.
[working paper version]
American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 106(5), 2016, 410–414. [working paper version]
Quarterly Journal of Economics 128(1), 2013, 337-370.
Instincts and Institutions: The Rise of the Market
with Mark Koyama
Advances in Austrian Economics 13, 2010, 285-309.
Books/Edited Volumes
Other
Intersectional Affirmative Action
with Bary Pradelski and Cole Williams
VoxEU, 16 November 2022 .
The Paths to Narrow Identities: A Comment on Dasgupta and Goyal's 'Narrow Identities'
Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 14(2), 2022, 77–86.
'What Should an Economist Know?'
IEA World Congress, July 2021
Slides from the ERINN Social Norms Workshop, Nuffield College Oxford, June 2019
An Interview with Thomas Schelling
Oxonomics, May 2007
Teaching
Course in Evolution and Learning in Games
Lectures
- The Rational Agent and Its Limitations
- The Interactive Knowledge Problem
- Social Learning
- Evolution in Games
- Learning Protocols
- Deterministic Dynamics
- Evolutionary Stability
- Local Stability
- Cultural Transmission
- Stochastic Dynamics
- Stochastic Stability
- Emergence of Segregation
- Adaptive Play
- Bargaining Conventions
- Games Played on Networks
- Heterogeneous Agents
- Fast Convergence
Contact
Department of Economics, University of Oxford, Manor Road Building, Manor Road, Oxford OX1 3UQ