a PhD from Harvard University in 1993; his adviser was Zvi Griliches. After graduation from Harvard, Berman became an assistant professor at Boston University. He moved to UCSD in 2003. Selected publications Radical, Religious and Violent: The New Economics of Terrorism (MIT Press 2009), "Religious Extremism: the good, the bad and the deadly," (with Laurence R. Iannaccone), Public Choice, 128(1–2), 109–129, (2006). "Is Skill-Biased Technological Change Here Yet: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing in the 1990s," Annales d'Economie et de Statistique 79/80, 2006. "Language-Skill Complementarity: Estimated Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition," (with Kevin Lang and Erez Siniver), Labour Economics, 10 (3), (June 2003) 265–290. "Environmental Regulation and Productivity: Evidence from Oil Refineries," (with Linda Bui), Review of Economics and Statistics, August 2001. "Environmental Regulation and Labor Demand: Evidence from the South Coast Air Basin," (with Linda Bui), Journal of Public Economics, February 2001. See also Economics of religion Rational choice theory Religious terrorism Radicalization References Further reading Leonard Stern (May 29, 2010) Terrorist do-gooders, The Ottawa Citizen Aziz Huq (04/22/10) Book Brief: Do Religious Organizations Enable Terrorists?, Brennan Center for Justice Devin Leonard, (February 6, 2010) Terrorism and the Pocketbook, The New York Times Andrew Leigh (January 19, 2010) The Economics of Terrorism, Core Economics (economics.com.au) republishing his same day op-ed What Makes Martyrs Tick, from The Australian Financial Review David Lehman, Rational Choice and the Sociology of Religion, chapter 8 in Bryan S. Turner (ed.) The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion, John Wiley and Sons, 2010, External links Berman's home page Official web site for his book and free 1st chapter Podcast interview with Berman Living people Economists from California American male non-fiction writers Jewish American scientists University of California, San Diego faculty 1960 births Insurgency Experts on terrorism Terrorism theorists Cultural economists Harvard University alumni Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni Boston University faculty 21st-century American economists