Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/group/3682/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Measuring Religion from Behavior: Economic Adversity, State Control and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan (April 2, 2024 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/118000 118000-21840337@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2024 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Political Economy Workshop (PEW)

Religious adherence has been hard to study in part because it is hard to measure. We develop a new measure of religious adherence, which is granular in both time and space, using anonymized mobile phone logs. We use this measure to shed light on the nature of religious practice in Islamic societies. First, we show that religious adherence rises sharply when districts in Afghanistan fall under Taliban control. Second, when climate shocks create adverse economic conditions, people become more religiously observant -- particularly in unirrigated areas where climate matters most to agricultural production. More broadly, our results indicate that economic and political adversity cause individuals to become more religiously adherent.


This talk is presented jointly by the Political Economy Workshop (PEW) and the Economic Development Seminar, sponsored in part by the Department of Economics through a generous gift given by Jay and Beth Rakow. This talk is also sponsored by the International Policy Center at the Ford School.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:47:31 -0400 2024-04-02T13:00:00-04:00 2024-04-02T14:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Political Economy Workshop (PEW) Workshop / Seminar Measuring Religion from Behavior: Economic Adversity, State Control and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan
Economic History Seminar- April 9 (joint with PEW) (April 9, 2024 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/118215 118215-21840655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2024 2:30pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Political Economy Workshop (PEW)

This talk is presented by the Economic History Seminar, joint with the Political Ecology Workshop and sponsored by the Department of Economics with generous gifts given through the Harrison Metal Visiting Scholar Award Fund and the Economics Strategic Fund.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 06 Feb 2024 14:03:26 -0500 2024-04-09T14:30:00-04:00 2024-04-09T15:50:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Political Economy Workshop (PEW) Workshop / Seminar Economic History Seminar- April 9 (joint with PEW)