A new column on VoxEU by the Faculty's Professor Sriya Iyer et al notes the potentially large welfare implications in a crisis between religion and psychological distress is sparse.
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Thursday, 18 April, 2024
Keywords: ReligionWelfare AnalysisCOVID-19
Economics News | Published on Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
People of religious faith may have experienced lower levels of unhappiness and stress than secular people during the UK’s Covid-19 lockdowns in 2020 and 2021, according to a new University of Cambridge study released today as a working paper.
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Wednesday, 22 September, 2021
Dr. Sriya Iyer has given expert advice to a new Pew Research Center report saying all religious groups in India show major declines in fertility rates, limiting change in the country’s religious composition over time.
Keywords: FertilityIndiaReligionWomen in Economics
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 12 July, 2021
The Wall Street Journal has picked up on the latest report from the Pew Research Center, which features expert advice from Dr. Sriya Iyer. She looks at how religious pluralism is faring in India, a religiously diverse county, where many religions practice freely.
Keywords: IndiaReligionWomen in EconomicsDiversity
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Sunday, 14 March, 2021
Dr. Sriya Iyer was interviewed for The Review of Religions magazine, where they asked her about the economics of religion, why she thinks religion matters to economics, and if religion and happiness are correlated.
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Thursday, 1 October, 2020
Dr Sriya Iyer was interviewed by Dr Shruti Rajagopalan for the Ideas of India podcast (Mercatus Center, Washington DC).
Economics News | Published on Thursday, 2 July, 2020
Update - watch videos from the 24hr Conference below
Conference opened by Sascha Becker, Monash Business School and University of Warwick.
Keywords: CultureReligionSocial Economics
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Wednesday, 11 March, 2020
Dr. Sriya Iyer was invited by the Chief Economist's Office at the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to give a talk on her research on the economics of religion in India.
Economics News | Published on Monday, 29 July, 2019
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Keywords: ReligionWomen in EconomicsEconomics
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Thursday, 3 January, 2019
Dr. Sriya Iyer looks at "Why are Americans so religious?" in an article published in the Wall Street Journal. This follows on from the recent publication of her book "The Economics of Religion in India". Which was one of the Times Literary Supplement's 'Books of the Year 2018'.
Keywords: ReligionUSWomen in Economics
Economics News | Published on Tuesday, 18 September, 2018
Religion has not been a popular target for economic analysis. Yet the tools of economics can offer deep insights into how religious groups compete, deliver social services, and reach out to potential converts—how, in daily life, religions nurture and deploy market power.
Keywords: IndiaReligionWomen in Economics
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Tuesday, 18 September, 2018
Keywords: Economics of ReligionReligion
Economics News | Published on Tuesday, 1 May, 2018
In her 2018 Harvard University Press book, Sriya uses economic methods to study religion. Religion is not a popular target for economic analysis.
Keywords: IndiaReligionWomen in Economics
Economics News | Published on Tuesday, 18 July, 2017
The International Economic Association Roundtable on the Economics of Religion was held at St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge on 10-11 July 2017.
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Tuesday, 18 April, 2017
Dr Sriya Iyer talks "What is the economics of religion really about?" in an article and interview was published in ECNMY.
Keywords: ReligionWomen in EconomicsEconomics
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 27 March, 2017
Keywords: AssassinationPoliticsReligionConflict
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Tuesday, 12 April, 2011
Religious organisations in India are diversifying their "business model" to maintain the loyalty of their followers and attract new devotees. Read about Sriya Iyer's research on the University of Cambridge news.
Keywords: Business ModelsIndiaReligion