Prof Jean-Paul Carvalho
2004
Commonwealth Bank John Monash Scholar
DPhil/MPhil Economics
Political Economy, Social Dynamics, Game Theory
Oxford
United Kingdom
Business and Economics
Jean-Paul Carvalho is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and Fellow of New College.
His work combines game-theoretic models of population dynamics with historical analysis. It draws upon and contributes to a number of emerging fields, including the economics of identity, culture, and religion. Prof. Carvalho has made contributions to modeling social norms, culturally transmitted preferences and belief systems, and groups and networks. His work has been applied to the following subjects:
• Social determinants of education/labor market outcomes
• Economic determinants of social institutions, including religion
• Structural inequality
• Political economy under diversity
• Extremism and Conflict
His research has been published in leading academic journals including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Economic Journal, and Economic Theory. He also co-edited the volume Advances in the Economics of Religion (Palgrave 2019), and currently serves as Board Member of the Association for the Study of Religion, Economics and Culture (ASREC), Board Member and Faculty Fellow of the Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies (AALIMS), Core Associate of the Network for Economic Research on Identity, Norms and Narratives (ERINN), Associate of Theoretical Research in Development Economics (ThReD), and Editorial Advisory Board Member for the Oxford University Press book series on Philosophy, Politics & Economics.
Previously, he was Associate Professor at the University of California-Irvine in the Department of Economics and the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard, Stanford, NYU, and Warwick.
Prof Carvalho completed his DPhil in Economics at the University of Oxford in 2009, supported by the Commonwealth Bank Foundation.