Seminar details to come.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Jeanet Sinding Bentzen is a Professor in Economics at University of Copenhagen, where she is also head of the PhD program in economics. Her research focuses on economic approaches to decision-making and culture, and includes topics related to religion, institutions, economic growth, economic history, and geography. Most of her recent work is within the Economics of Religion field. Methodologically, she uses econometric techniques to test theories from psychology, sociology, theology, anthropology, and economics empirically. Her methodology involves broad datasets spanning the globe, allowing testing of the generalizability of the various theories. Jeanet is associate editor at The Economic Journal. She is a CEPR Research Affiliate in Economic History and the Macroeconomics and Growth programme, an External Research Associate at CAGE, Warwick University, and Executive Director of the international Association of Economics, Religion, and Culture (ASREC). Her research features in outlets, such as The American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, The Economic Journal, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Economic Growth, the Journal of Development Economics, and Nature Communications.