Eli Berman
Eli Berman
Affiliated Faculty
elberman@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 534-2858
Fax: (858) 534-7040
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1993 (economics)
M.A., Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1989 (economics)
B.A., Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1987 (computer science and economics)
Biography
Eli Berman is Associate Professor of Economics and Affiliated Faculty of IR/PS. He is also currently Research Director for International Security Studies at the Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC). His research interests include labor economics, the economics of religion, labor markets and technological change, economic demography, applied econometrics, economic growth and development, and environmental economics. His work on the Economics of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities was published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics in 2000.
Recent grants from the National Science Foundation (2002 and 2005) have enabled him to look closely at relationships between religion and fertility from an economic standpoint. His latest publications include, "Religious Extremism: The Good, the Bad, and the Deadly" (with Laurence R. Iannaccone) in Public Choice (2006), and "The Economics of Religion," in the New Palgrave Encyclopedia of Economics (with Laurence R. Iannaccone, forthcoming). Berman received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1993. He was a National Bureau of Economic Research Sloan Fellow in 1999, was promoted to Associate Professor (with tenure) at Boston University in 2000, and held the Mitchell Chair in Sustainable Development at Rice University before joining UCSD.
