Faculty Features

Multi-year datasets from the King Center’s African Urbanization and Development Research Initiative continue to inform research and policy insights in Ethiopia and Côte d’Ivoire.

King Center Faculty Affiliate Alessandra Voena finds a rift between what people believe and what they think others believe about certain policies meant to empower women.

King Center Faculty Affiliate and Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Claudia Allende Santa Cruz is studying health behaviors in Chile.

Professor Lisa Blaydes examines the treatment of migrant domestic workers in Arab Gulf states as part of the King Center’s initiative on gender-based violence.

"I came to this realization that nothing was going to work in economic development if the government wasn’t functioning."

In the first real-world test of a tool pioneered at Stanford to better evaluate anti-poverty policies, a new study shows the economic benefits of expanding electricity access.

"To me, discovering curiosity and generosity — that’s at the heart of scholarship."

Members of the Stanford Human Trafficking Data Lab work to uncover ways in which politically connected predators of human trafficking often avoid punishment.

Tapsoba, a King Center Visiting Professor, talks about factors that affect household living standards in sub-Saharan Africa.

Historical disparities can affect access to public services today, research by King Center Visiting Professor Belinda Archibong shows.

In 2021, Faculty Affiliate Desiree LaBeaud and her colleagues launched the nonprofit organization HERI-Kenya to reduce the spread of mosquito-borne diseases in Kenya.

A team of researchers have created a machine-learning tool to encourage the development of new ways to measure progress on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

A panel of experts discussed technology's vast potential to promote public health and its many challenges

Alfredo J. Artiles has long studied what he calls “the dual nature of disability."

A new paper in Science by King Center researchers documents progress in using satellite imagery and machine learning techniques to study development trends.

The Stanford Human Trafficking Data Lab conducts critical research using promising innovations in modern data science.

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic caused a sharp decline in living standards and rising food insecurity in developing countries across the globe.

A remediation and public education effort at an abandoned battery recycling facility in Bangladesh eliminated most lead soil contamination.

The King Center’s David Lobell and Soledad Artiz Prillaman focus their research on food security and political representation in India.

A new multidisciplinary initiative convenes researchers across Stanford's campus and in Brazil to secure localized, high-quality data to fight human trafficking.