Jonathan F Schulz

Jonathan F Schulz is Assistant Professor of Economics at George Mason University, researching cultural evolution, economic history, and behavioral economics through interdisciplinary approaches combining experiments, historical analysis, and psychological methods.

Research examines how formal/informal institutions co-evolve with human psychology, with particular focus on kin networks, social norms, and the historical psychology of institutional development. Major publications appear in Science, Nature, and PNAS.

Publications demonstrate methodological diversity: laboratory experiments on honesty, cross-cultural field studies, historical database analysis, and large-scale surveys. Recent work emphasizes surname-based innovation metrics, kinship institutional impacts, and cross-temporal psychological measurement.

Awards include the 2022 Royal Economic Society Prize for research on kin networks and institutional development. Grant funding encompasses Templeton Foundation projects on religion/family structures and honesty norms across societies.