Message from the President
Founded in April 2010, AALIMS reached a milestone at its third anniversary. As a sign of becoming an established organization, we have experienced our first “change of the guard.”
AALIMS-Yale Graduate Student Workshop
Program: Coming soon
Presentations: View presenters and their papers
Marwa Khaboor (marwa.khaboor@yale.edu)
All sessions are free and open to the public, but pre-registration is required.
2020 Annual Conference Organizing Committee
Timur Kuran (Duke University)
Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale University)
Elizabeth Nugent (Yale University), Chair
Presentations
Friday, April 10, 2020
MORNING
8:30-10:00 Regimes
Chair: Elizabeth Nugent (Yale University)
Daniel Tavana (Princeton University), “The Social Origins of Opposition to Authoritarian Rule”
Nathan Grubman (Yale University), “The Vicissitudes of Transition and the Islamist-Secularist Cleavage”
10:00-10:15 BREAK
10:15-12:30 Institutions
Chair: Tahir Andrabi (Pomona College)
Ao Wang (University of California, Berkeley), Shaoda Wang (University of California, Berkeley), and Xiaoyang Ye (University of Michigan), “Religion and Motivated Cognition: When Ramadan Meets the College Entrance Exam”
Tugba Bozcaga (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “The Social Bureaucrat: How Social Proximity among Bureaucrats Affects Local Governance”
Sultan Mehmood (Aix-Marseille School of Economics) and Avner Seror (Aix-Marseille School of Economics), “Religion, Politics, and Judicial Independence: Theory and Evidence”
12:30-2:00 LUNCH BREAK