Sriya Iyer

Iyer did her schooling at the United Nations International School (UNIS) in New York and then in various schools in India, after which she completed her B.A. in Economics with First Class Honours from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi (1991), and subsequently earned another B.A. (M.A. Cantab) in Economics from Newnham College, University of Cambridge (1993). She received her MPhil (1995) and Ph.D. (2000) in Economics from the University of Cambridge.{{cite web

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}} Her Ph.D. thesis explored Religion and the Economics of Fertility in South India.

Iyer was at St Catharine’s College and the Faculty of Economics from 2000 as a Newton Trust Affiliated Lecturer, Bibby Fellow and Janeway Fellow and was appointed to a Readership in the Faculty of Economics at Cambridge in 2019. In 2022, she became Professor of Economics and Social Science.{{cite web |title=Four new professors in Economics faculty |url=https://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/news/2022/four-new-professors-economics-faculty |website=Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge |date=16 June 2022 |access-date=31 March 2025}} Her notable visiting scholar positions include Harvard University, and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

She holds honorary positions including Member of Council at the Royal Economic Society,{{cite web |title=Professor Sriya Iyer elected to RES Council |url=https://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/news/2022/professor-sriya-iyer-elected-res-council |website=Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge |date=30 May 2022 |access-date=31 March 2025}} Deputy Director of The Keynes Fund for Applied Economics,{{cite web |title=Fellow appointed Keynes Fund Deputy Director |url=https://www.caths.cam.ac.uk/keynes-fund |website=St Catharine's College, University of Cambridge |date=2021 |access-date=31 March 2025}} Academic Editor at PLOS ONE and previously held advisory roles for the Templeton Religion Trust and Pew Research Center.

She was made a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society in May 2025.{{Cite web|url=https://res.org.uk/the-royal-economic-society-announces-founding-fellows/|title=The Royal Economic Society announces Founding Fellows|first=Cesilia|last=Sinur|date=May 1, 2025|website=Royal Economic Society}}

Iyer has received research grants from the British Academy, Population Council, Issac Newton Trust, Cambridge-INET Institute, The Keynes Fund, John F. Templeton Foundation and Metanexus Institute on Religion and Science for her research on the economics of religion. She leads the Templeton Religion Trust's Social Consequences of Religion{{cite web |title=Social Consequences of Religion |url=https://templetonreligiontrust.org/areas-of-focus/social-consequences-of-religion/ |website=Templeton Religion Trust |access-date=31 March 2025}} Strand 3 on Religion & Economic Development.{{cite web |title=Sriya Iyer becomes Academic Editor and scores second grant |url=https://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/news/2024/sriya-iyer-becomes-academic-editor-and-scores-second-grant |website=Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge |date=16 September 2024 |access-date=31 March 2025}} These grants support her research on religion, economic development, mental health, environmental economics, and the social impact of religion.

• Iyer, Sriya. The Economics of Religion in India. Harvard University Press, 2018. ISBN 9780674979642.{{cite book |last=Iyer |first=Sriya |title=The Economics of Religion in India |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=2018 |isbn=9780674979642 |url=https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674979642}}
• Iyer, Sriya. Demography and Religion in India. Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Jean-Paul Carvalho, Sriya Iyer, and Jared Rubin (Eds.). Advances in the Economics of Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.{{cite book

| editor1-last = Carvalho

| editor1-first = Jean-Paul

| editor2-last = Iyer

| editor2-first = Sriya

| editor3-last = Rubin

| editor3-first = Jared

| title = Advances in the Economics of Religion

| publisher = Palgrave Macmillan

| year = 2019

| isbn = 978-3-319-99336-2

| doi = 10.1007/978-3-319-98848-1

| url = https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-98848-1

}}

Her academic articles have appeared in journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,{{cite journal | last1 = Velu | first1 = Chander | last2 = Iyer | first2 = Sriya | title = Learning from near misses from COVID-19 | journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | volume = 118 | issue = 40 | year = 2021 | pages = e2108269118 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.2108269118 | doi-access = free | pmid = 34580223 | pmc = 8501881 | bibcode = 2021PNAS..11808269V }} Journal of Political Economy,{{cite journal | last1 = Fruehwirth | first1 = Jane Cooley | last2 = Iyer | first2 = Sriya | last3 = Zhang | first3 = Anwen | title = Religion and Depression in Adolescence | journal = Journal of Political Economy | volume = 127 | issue = 3 | pages = 1178–1209 | year = 2019 | doi = 10.1086/701425 | pmid = 31285635 | pmc = 6613944 | hdl = 10419/130336 | hdl-access = free }} Journal of Economic Literature,{{cite journal | last1 = Iyer | first1 = Sriya | title = The New Economics of Religion | journal = Journal of Economic Literature | volume = 54 | issue = 2 | pages = 395–441 | year = 2016 | doi = 10.1257/jel.54.2.395 | url = https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.54.2.395 | url-access = subscription }} Review of Economics and Statistics,{{cite journal | last1 = Do | first1 = Quy-Toan | last2 = Iyer | first2 = Sriya | last3 = Joshi | first3 = Shareen | title = The Economics of Consanguineous Marriages | journal = Review of Economics and Statistics | volume = 95 | issue = 3 | pages = 904–918 | year = 2013 | doi = 10.1162/REST_a_00279| url = https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article-abstract/95/3/904/58074/The-Economics-of-Consanguineous-Marriages | hdl = 10986/16604 | hdl-access = free }} European Economic Review,{{cite journal | last1 = Bahal | first1 = Girish | last2 = Iyer | first2 = Sriya | last3 = Shastry | first3 = Kishen | last4 = Shrivastava | first4 = Anand | title = Religion, Covid-19 and Mental Health | journal = European Economic Review | volume = 160 | year = 2023 | pages = 104509 | doi = 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2023.104621 | url = https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014292123002490 }} Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion,{{cite journal | last = Iyer | first = Sriya | title = Religion and the Decision to Use Contraception in India | journal = Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | volume = 41 | issue = 4 | pages = 711–722 | year = 2002 | doi = 10.1111/1468-5906.00156 | url = https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-5906.00156 | url-access = subscription }} and Journal of Development Economics.{{cite journal | last1 = Iyer | first1 = Sriya | last2 = Shrivastava | first2 = Anand | title = Religious riots and electoral politics in India | journal = Journal of Development Economics | volume = 131 | pages = 104–122 | year = 2018 | doi = 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2017.11.003 | url = https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304387817301025 | hdl = 10419/125042 | hdl-access = free }}

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• [https://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/sriya-iyer Official faculty page, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge]
• [https://www.caths.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-sriya-iyer Profile at St Catharine's College, Cambridge]
• [https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/religious-people-coped-better-with-covid-19-pandemic-research-suggests Cambridge University press release on research about religion and mental health]
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