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Sriya Iyer

Sriya received a PhD from the University of Cambridge (2000); Serves on the Board of Directors of the Association for the Study of Religion, Economics and Culture; Research Fellow, °ËØÔ±¬ÁÏ for the Study of Labor (IZA). Awarded a Population Council Social Science Research Fellowship (1998-1999), a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (2000-2003), and grants from the John Templeton Foundation, the Isaac Newton Trust, and the Cambridge-INET °ËØÔ±¬ÁÏ. She was awarded a University of Cambridge Pilkington Prize for Teaching Excellence in 2014.

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Religious Riots and Electoral Politics in India

Paper Working paper | By Sriya Iyer and Anand Shrivastava | Sep 2015

The effect of ethnic violence on electoral results provides useful insights into voter behaviour and the incentives for political parties in democratic societies.

The New Economics of Religion

Paper Working paper | By Sriya Iyer | Dec 2014

The economics of religion is a relatively new field of research in economics. This survey serves two purposes – it is backward-looking in that it traces the historical and sociological origins of this field, and it is forward-looking in that it examines the insights and research themes that are offered by economists to investigate religion globally in the modern world.