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CONFERENCE Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and AND Muslim Societies – www.AALIMS.org April 15-16, 2016 GRADUATE STUDENT AALIMS-Stanford Graduate Student Workshop WORKSHOP AALIMS-Stanford Conference on Political Economy of Islam and Muslim Societies AALIMS 2015 The purpose of the Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies is to promote analytic research of Muslim societies, Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice with a focus on the roles of culture and religion Bobstcenter.princeton.edu in social, economic and political trends in both December 6, 2015 ISLAM the past and the present. It serves as a forum Muslim & Jewish Women Leadership Conference for the discussion and critical evaluation of AND HUMAN CAPITAL relevant research that uses advanced descriptive, March 4-5, 2016 theoretical and empirical methods of the modern American University of Beirut-Princeton Conference: social sciences. AALIMS puts a premium “After the Uprisings: The Arab World in Freefall, on interdisciplinary exchanges as a means of Fragmentation or Reconfiguration?” fostering comprehensive analyses of Muslim societies and their institutions. Thus, it seeks to broaden contacts among economists, historians, legal scholars, political scientists and sociologists working on the Muslim world. It reaches out also to humanists, especially specialists on Islam or a part of the Muslim world, who share an Niehaus Center for and Governance appreciation of applying empirical and theoretical October 29, 2015 methods of the social sciences to the social, political, historical or economic study of Muslim Dinner Honoring the Tenth Anniversary of the Niehaus societies. The association avoids political activism OCTOBER 30-31, 2015 Center for Globalization and Governance of all kinds and has no political affiliation. By Invitation Only Imposing no limits on the inferences made or Hosts: Cecilia E. Rouse (Dean, Woodrow Wilson School) conclusions reached, it considers unrestricted & Helen V. Milner (Director, Niehaus Center) scholarly debate and discussion as essential to November 13-14, 2015 intellectual advancement and refinement. Robertson Hall 0016 2015 International Political Economy Society Meeting (IEPS) - By Invitation Only Hosts: Helen V. Milner (Princeton University) & Kenneth Scheve () AALIMS-Princeton Conference on Islam and Human Capital

DAY 1: Friday, October 30 DAY 2: Saturday, October 31

8:30-10:00am Student Workshop 2:00-3:30pm Educational Opportunities 8:30-10:45am Educational Attainment Chair: Mohamad Al-Ississ (American University in Chair: Thomas Pepinsky (Cornell University) Chair: Timur Kuran (Duke University) Cairo) Melina Platas Izama (Stanford University) “The Yasin Kürşat Önder (Central Bank of Turkey) and Diego Fossati (Cornell University), “Partisan Puzzle of Muslim Disadvantage in Education: Mrittika Shamsuddin (United Arab Emirates Cooperation in Multi-level Political Systems: Majority Status and Schooling Outcomes” University), “Does Islamic Rule Really Empower Evidence from Healthcare Reform in Indonesia” Djavad Salehi-Isfahani (Virginia Polytechnic Women?” Kevin Mazur (Princeton University), “Identity Institute), “Equality of Education in MENA” Erica Field (Duke University), “Financial Incentives Boundaries and Alliance Formation in the Syrian and Girls’ Empowerment and Schooling in Uprising” 3:30-3:45pm BREAK Bangladesh” Mahdi Majbouri (Babson College), “Exemption 10:00-10:15am BREAK 3:45-5:15pm Education and Attitudes and Education: Exploiting a Discontinuity in Chair: Helen Milner (Princeton University) Compulsory Military Service Law” CONFERENCE STARTS Adeline Delavande (University of Essex) and 10:45-11:00am BREAK 10:15-12:30pm Vocational Basit Zafar (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), and Higher Human Capital “Stereotypes and Madrassas: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan” 11:00-12:30pm PANEL 2: Gender and Education Chair: Amaney Jamal (Princeton University) Najeeb Shafiq (University of Pittsburgh), “Returns Moderator: Tarek Masoud () Jennifer Peck (Swarthmore College), “The Impact of and Revolution: Schooling, Earnings, and Protest Erica Field (Duke University) Hiring Quotas on Employment, Wages, and the Participation during the Arab Spring and Arab Asim Khwaja (Harvard University) Skill Premium: Evidence from Saudi Arabia” Winter” Tahir Andrabi (Pomona College) and Niharika Singh Erik Meyersson (Stockholm School of Economics) (Harvard University), “Breaking the Glass Ceiling: 5:15-5:30pm BREAK Tara Vishwanath (World Bank) Open Merit Admissions in Medical Education in Pakistan” 5:30-7:00pm PANEL 1: Curriculum, Ideology, and 12:30-1:00pm PACKED LUNCH Asim Khwaja (Harvard University) and Jacob Civic Attitudes Shapiro (Princeton University), “Crossing Boundaries: Moderator: Quy-Toan Do (World Bank) 1:00-2:30pm Gender Experimental Evidence on Skills Acquisition Access Tahir Andrabi (Pomona College) Chair: Jacob Shapiro (Princeton University) Constraints for Rural Women in Pakistan” Thierry Verdier ( School of Economics) Lisa Blaydes (Stanford University), Jeremy 12:30-2:00pm LUNCH BREAK Weinstein (Stanford University), and Yael Dana Burde (New York University) Zeira (University of Mississippi), “Exploring the Determinants of Child Marriage in the Muslim 7:00-9:00pm Conference Dinner World” Amaney Jamal (Princeton University) and Helen Milner (Princeton University), “Women, Patriarchy and Globalization in MENA: Evidence Robertson Hall 0016 from Tunisia” Conference is free and open to the public. Registration is required by emailing [email protected] CONFERENCE ENDS