Eli Berman
Eli Berman is Research Director for International Security Studies at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and an associate professor of economics at UC San Diego. His research interests include labor economics, labor markets and technological change, the economics of religion, economic demography, applied econometrics, economic growth and development, and environmental economics. 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 publication is "Religion, Terrorism, and Public Goods: Testing the Club Model" (with David Laitin) in the Journal of Public Economics (2008). Berman received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and was a National Bureau of Economic Research Sloan Fellow in 1999.
