Rachel McCleary is Senior Research Fellow, Taubman Center, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Research Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and Visiting Scholar, American Enterprise Institute. Rachel Holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago, a Master of Theological Studies from Emory University, and a B.A. from Indiana University. She co-wrote the […]

Robert J. Barro, professor of economics at Harvard University, co-wrote with Rachel McCleary the papers “International Determinants of Religiosity” and “Religion and Economic Growth.” Read a March 7, 2004, Boston Globe article on Barro and McCleary’s research. Barro writes regularly for The Wall Street Journal. 

Barry Kosmin directs the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. He has conducted polls on religion and society in the United States, Europe, Africa and Asia.

Ariela Keysar is Associate Director at the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture and Associate Research Professor at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. She is c0-author of Religion in a Free Market, Religious and Non-Religious Americans: Who, What, Why, and Where (Paramount Publishing, 2006) and Religion and Political Party Preference: New Findings from the American Religious Identification […]

Carrie Miles is a senior scholar-in-residence at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. She is the author of The Redemption of Love: Rescuing  Marriage and Sexuality from the Economics of a Fallen World ( Brazos Press, 2006). The book uses economics and social science to understand biblical teachings on marriage and the family.

Laurence R. Iannaccone, (pronounced “YAWN -uh – cone -ee”) director of the Institute for the Study of Religion, Economics and Society and professor of economics at Chapman University in Orange, Calif., is a leading authority internationally on the economics of religion. He heads the Association for the Study of Religion, Economics and Culture and developed […]

Janet T. Landa, a retired economics professor at York University in Toronto, has written about the bioeconomics of religious and ethnically homogenous merchant groups.

Esa Mangeloja, a senior lecturer in the economics department at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, has researched the economics of religion.

Joseph L. Price is a professor of religious studies at Whittier College in Whittier, Calif. He wrote the article “Religion and American Popular Culture” for the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (1996) and has taught a course on religion and film. He is the author of the 2006 book Rounding the Bases: Baseball and Religion in America and […]