Publications

WCFIA Publications

The Weatherhead Center has developed a presence on the Internet that, to a growing readership, is playing a significant role in the projection of Harvard scholarship on international affairs. The site includes: faculty research available through categorical fields of inquiry; searches by author, subject, title or date of publication; Working Papers selected for online distribution based on their relevance to contemporary issues in international affairs; In the News links to op-ed and other pieces written by or about the Center’s faculty associates; and recent books by faculty associates, including editorial summaries. The Center is always adding to the collection of published journal articles available on its site and responding to the interests of Center faculty and other users in making the site an indispensable scholarly tool.

Below are a selection of our most recently uploaded publications.


Religion and Fertility in India: The Role of Son Preference and Daughter Aversion
by Sriya Iyer and Vani Borooah
This paper brings together the notion of ?son preference? and the complementary concept of ?daughter aversion? to provide an explanation for larger Muslim, relative to Hindu families in India. Just...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: July 2004 More
Vidya, Veda, and Varna: The Influence of Religion and Caste on Education in Rural India
by Sriya Iyer and Vani Borooah
This paper argues that Vidya (education), Veda (religion) and Varna (caste) are inter–linked in India. It examines whether, and to what extent, the enrolment of children at school in India is...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: August 2004 More
Religion, Reproduction and Development in Contemporary India
by Sriya Iyer
Sriya Iyer explains inter–group differences in demographic and development outcomes in India. She evaluates the role of religion in demography and development with reference to Hinduism and Islam,...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: December 2003 More
Where You Sit Is Where You Stand: The Behavioral Impact of Geography on International Organizations
by Kapur, Devesh
The turn to "geography" in the social sciences has been evident in recent years, but the insights from this literature have largely bypassed scholarship on international organizations...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: September 2004 More
Doing Good in American Communities: Congregations and Service Organizations Working Together
by Nancy Ammerman
A Research Report from the Organizing Religious Work Project, Hartford Institute for Religion Research Hartford Seminary The well–being of every community depends on harnessing the...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: January 2001 More
Golden Rule Christianity: Lived Religion in the American Mainstream
by Nancy T. Ammerman
Vanishing Boundaries, the recently published book by Hoge, Johnson, and Luidens examines the religious lives of a cohort of baby boomers confirmed in Presbyterian churches in the 1950s and 1960s....
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: October 1997 More
Violence and the Sacred in Nineteenth-Century France
by Caroline Ford
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: January 1998 More
I am an Atheist and a Muslim?: Ideological Competition and Accommodation in Central Asia
by Paul Froese
Why do religious and political ideologies sometimes produce social and political conflict and other times co-mingle peacefully? The answer must consider both the content of competing ideologies...
Publication Type: Conference Paper
Published Date: April 2013 More
The Fundamental Importance of God's Character: Measuring Religious Effects and Differences
by Chris Bader and Paul Froese
Social scientists often explain religious effects in terms of religious group affiliations. Typically, researchers identify religious groups by denomination or some broader popular categorization,...
Publication Type: Conference Paper
Published Date: May 2004 More
Forced Secularization in Soviet Russia: Foreign Direct Investment in a World of Multiple Taxes
by Paul Froese
Under communism, the Russian religious landscape consisted mainly of two competitors – a severely repressed Russian Orthodox Church and a heavily promoted atheist alternative to religion called...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: March 2004 More
Iraq's Currency Solution? Tie the Dinar to Oil
by Frankel, Jeffrey
Well–functioning monetary arrangements are as important as other aspects of the infrastructure, in putting Iraq back on the road of economic development. After the unification of the two kinds of...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: August 2003 More
How the US Government Flubbed Its Opportunity to Exercise Global Economic Leadership
by Frankel, Jeffrey
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: February 2004 More
Politics and Exchange Rates: A Cross-Country Approach to Latin America
by Frieden, Jeffry
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: October 2000 More
The Political Economy of The Euro as an International Currency
by Frieden, Jeffry
Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in Europe will have important effects on international monetary affairs. This is true on both economic and policy–making dimensions. As for the first, the euro is...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: March 2000 More