Arya Gaduh is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He is also an Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) affiliate and a faculty fellow of the Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies (AALIMS). His research examines economic development topics related to human/social capital and urban economics in low-middleincome countries and he has worked extensively on Indonesia. Dr. Gaduh has worked as a consultant for the World Bank, RAND Corporation, and the National Team for the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction (TNP2K) of the Indonesian government. His research has been published in The American Economic Review, AEJ: Applied Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, and World Development.