1) Introduction
Jean-Paul Carvalho, Sriya Iyer, and Jared Rubin
Part I: Theoretical Advances in the Economics of Religion
2) Religious Clubs: The Strategic Role of Religious Identity
Jean-Paul Carvalho
3) Spatial Models of Religious Market Competition: A Critical Assessment
Michael McBride
4) When Average is Irrelevant: Computational Modeling of Religious Groups
Michael D. Makowsky
5) The Intelligent Design of Religious Beliefs
Gilat Levy
6) Religion and Segregation
Ronny Razin
7) Religious and Cultural Leaders
Anja Prummer
8) Intermediated Social Preferences: Altruism in an Algorithmic Era
Daniel L. Chen
Part II: Empirical Advances in the Economics of Religion
9) Religion and Demography
Sriya Iyer
10) Economics and Church State Research: Past, Present, Future
Dan Hungerman and Timothy Weninger
11) Protestants and Catholics and Educational Investment in Guatemala
Rachel M. McCleary and Robert J. Barro
12) The Religious Factor in Private Education in the United States
Danny Cohen-Zada and Moshe Justman
13) How Luther’s Quest for Education Changed German Economic History: 9+5 Theses on the Effects of the Protestant Reformation
Sascha O. Becker and Ludger Woessmann
14) Hindu-Muslim Violence in India: A Postscript From the 21st Century
Anirban Mitra and Debraj Ray
15) Religion and Conflict: A Quantitative Approach
José G. Montalvo and Marta Reynal-Querol
16) Why are Some Societies More Religious than Others?
Jeanet Sinding Bentzen
17) Socioeconomic Inequality across Religious Groups: Self-Selection or Religion-Induced Human Capital Accumulation? The Case of Egypt
Mohamed Saleh
18) Religion and the European Union
Benito Arruñada and Matthias Krapf
Part III: Advances in Religion and Political Economy
19) The Political and Economic Consequences of Religious Legitimacy
Jared Rubin
20) Religious Legitimacy and the Joint Evolution of Culture and Institutions
Alberto Bisin, Avner Seror, and Thierry Verdier
21) Strategic Interactions between Religion and Politics: the Case of Islam
Jean-Philippe Platteau
22) State and Religion: An Economic Approach
Metin M. Coşgel and Thomas J. Miceli
23) A Great Academic Re-Awakening: The Return to a Political Economy of Religion
Anthony Gill
24) The State, Toleration, and Religious Freedom
Noel Johnson and Mark Koyama
25) Religiosity and Economic Performance: The Role of Personal Liberties
Laura Mayoral and Joan Esteban
26) Causes and Consequences of Monotheism in the Supply of Religion
Murat Iyigun
27) Religion, Political Power and Human Capital Formation: Evidence from Islamic History
Eric Chaney
28) Islam, Trade, and Innovation
Alireza Naghavi