Michael McBride



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Media Attention.
     Los Angeles Times, Column One Article, Stuart Silverstein, Happy? Let's Sum it Up, 3 July 2006 (also appears in Houtson Chronicle, 10 July 2006)
     New York Times Magazine, Ron Lieber, Net-Worth Obsession, 10 May 2010
     Research on Religion Podcast, Anthony Gill, Michael McBride on Religious Free-riding and the Mormon Church, 18 October 2010


Peer-reviewed journal articles.

1.  Relative-income Effects on Subjective Well-being in the Cross-section, 2001, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 45(3): 251-278
2.  Explication of the Cultural Transmission Model, 2004, with Elisa Bienenstock (UC Irvine) American Sociological Review 69(1): 138-143
3.  Crises, Reforms, and Regime Persistence in sub-Saharan Africa, 2005, European Journal of Political Economy 21(3): 688-707
4.  Imperfect Monitoring in Communication Networks, 2006, Journal of Economic Theory 126(1): 97-119
5.  Discrete Public Goods under Threshold Uncertainty, 2006, Journal of Public Economics 90(6-7): 1181-1199
6.  Limited Observation in Mutual Consent Networks, 2006, Advances in Theoretical Economics 6(1): Article 3
7.  Club Mormon: Free-riders, Monitoring, and Exclusion in the LDS Church, 2007, Rationality and Society 19(4): 395-424
8.  Position-specific Information in Social Networks: Are You Connected?, 2008, Mathematical Social Sciences 56(2): 283-295 (Technical Appendix)
9.  Religious Pluralism and Religious Participation: A Game Theoretic Analysis, 2008, American Journal of Sociology 114(1): 77-108
10.  Religious Market Competition in a Richer World, 2010, Economica 77(305): 148-171
11.  Religion, Longevity, and Cooperation: The Case of the Craft Guild, 2009, with Gary Richardson (UC Irvine), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 71(2): 172-186
12.  Threshold Uncertainty in Discrete Public Good Games: An Experimental Study, 2010, Economics of Governance 11(1): 77-99
13.  Money, Happiness, and Aspirations: An Experimental Study, 2010, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 74(3): 262-276
14.  Peace and War with Endogenous State Capacity, forthcoming, with Gary Milante (World Bank) and Stergios Skaperdas (UC Irvine), Journal of Conflict Resolution


Other peer-reviewed publications.
15.  Explaining Conflict in Low-income Countries: Incomplete Contracting in the Shadow of the Future, 2007, with Stergios Skaperdas (UC Irvine), in Konrad and Gradstein, eds., Institutions and Norms in Economic Development, MIT Press


Working papers.
     Why Churches Need Free-riders: Religious Capital Formation and Religious Group Survival, August 2007
     Conflict, Settlement, and the Shadow of the Future, with Stergios Skaperdas (UC Irvine), September 2010
     Experienced Utility versus Decision Utility: Putting the 'S' in Satisfaction, with Steven Carter (ECONorthwest), September 2010
     Stopping Suicide Attacks: Optimal Strategies and Unintended Consequences, with Gary Richardson (UC Irvine), September 2010



      

 

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