Jean-Paul Carvalho is an Associate Professor in Economics within the Department of Economics in Oxford, working in the fields of Political Economy and Social Dynamics.
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
