Professor Jean-Paul Carvalho

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Professor Jean-Paul Carvalho is a political economist working on a wide range of topics including the impact of AI, financial markets and debt dynamics, political radicalization and other forms of extremism, and the role of changing social norms and institutions in the economy.

Professor Carvalho has made contributions to understanding how formal (political) and informal (social) institutions affect economic performance. Applications of his work include the political-economic risks of AI, the social determinants of education/labour market outcomes, the economic determinants of social institutions including religion, structural inequality, and extremism and conflict. His work has contributed to a number of emerging fields, including the economics of identity, culture and religion.