Past Recipients of Graduate Student Fellowships
Graduate student fellowships can provide one to two quarters of support in the form of tuition and a graduate student stipend for students pursuing dissertation research on topics related to global poverty and development.
- 2023–2024 Academic Year
- 2022–2023 Academic Year
- 2021–2022 Academic Year
- 2020–2021 Academic Year
- 2019–2020 Academic Year
- 2018–2019 Academic Year
2023–2024 Academic Year
Nina Buchmann, Department of Economics
Discrimination and Violence against Women -- Evidence from Bangladesh
Suhani Jalota, School of Medicine
What Works for Her? How Work-from-Home Digital Jobs Affect Female Labor Force Participation (With Evidence from the Urban Poor)
Jason Mian Luo, Department of Political Science
The Political Economy of Information Manipulation within Autocratic Systems: Evidence from China’s Government Procurement Activities
Jerome Nowak, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Utility of 3D printing for Disease Diagnostics: Low-Cost Electricity-Free Method for Automated Thin Smearing of Whole Blood
Esteban Salmon Perrilliat, Department of Anthropology
Power to the Prosecution? An Ethnography of Criminal Investigation in Mexico City
Sarah Thompson, Department of Political Science
Justice and Identity amid Legal Pluralism: Evidence from Traditional Communities in Pakistan and Beyond
Mark Walsh, Graduate School of Education
How do Social Concerns Influence Technology Adoption?: Evidence from Digital Financial Services in Pakistan and Tanzania
2022–2023 Academic Year
Jitka Hiscox, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Evaluating the Relationship Between Water Access, Maternal Well-Being, Caregiving and Child Development
Anna-Katharina von Krauland, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Revealing the Onshore and Offshore Potential: Wind Energy Atlas for India and the United States Accounting for Spatial Use Restrictions, Weather Variability, and Wind Speed Thresholds
Jiwon Kim, Department of Political Science
Social Identification and Political Mobilization of Conflict-stricken Ethnic Minorities
Alexandr Lenk, Department of Economics
The Role of Promises in Economic Development: A Cross-Regional Field Experiment in Egypt
Ana Trindade Ribeiro, Graduate School of Education
Can Gender Gaps in College Placement and Labor Market Outcomes Be Explained by Differences in Test-Taking Behavior?
Pablo Seward Delaporte, Department of Anthropology
Dwelling in Vulnerability: The Politics of Migrant Life in Chile
Chun-Yu (Jo Ann) Wang, Department of Anthropology
Refining Politics: Oil Development, Environmental Activism, and Political Improvisation in Rural Malaysia
Réka Zempléni, Department of Economics
What Drives Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries, and How Can They be Best Supported? Experimental Evidence from Colombia and India
Sally Zhang, Department of Economics
Asymmetric Information and Hidden Income within the Household in Developing Countries
2021–2022 Academic Year
Garrett Albistegui Adler, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources
Social Order and Social Protection: Mechanisms and Moderators in Climate-Related Violent Conflict
Haemin Jee, Department of Political Science
Regulation and Control without Rule of Law: The Social Credit System in China
Jiwon Kim, Department of Political Science
Choosing Security over Identity: Political Legacies of Ethnic Conflict in Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Beyond
Sebastián Otero, Department of Economics
Affirmative Action in Centralized College Admission Systems
Tianmei Wang, Department of Earth System Science
Unraveling and Predicting the Coupled Impacts of Climate Change and Soil Arsenic on Rice Yield and Grain Quality
Réka Zempléni, Department of Economics
Essays on Entrepreneurship and Development Economics
2020–2021 Academic Year
Nina Brooks, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources
A case study of brick manufacturing in Bangladesh that quantifies health and environmental impacts, studies the policy and regulatory landscape, and identifies a path to cleaner production.
Sergio Camelo Gomez, Department of Philosophy
A Centralized Platform for the Palm-Oil Smallholder Supply Chain
Diego Jiménez Hernández, Department of Economics
How Should Governments Intervene to Guarantee Universal Access to Private Goods?
Suraj Malladi, Graduate School of Business
Incentivizing Smallholder Farmers to Experiment with New Technologies
Casey Maue, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources
Productivity Dynamics of the World’s Most Numerous Firms: Evidence from Smallholder Farms in Sub-Saharan Africa
James Winter, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Impact of Piped Water Systems on Time Poverty, Economic Productivity, and Health in Rural Zambian Households
You (Willow) Wu, Department of Management Science and Engineering
Entrepreneurial Strategies in Nascent Markets
Tongtong Zhang, Department of Political Science
Civil Society, Participatory Institutions, and Authoritarian Rule: The Case of China
2019–2020 Academic Year
Hernán Felipe Barahona Kunze, Department of Economics
Food Labeling: Effects of Information on Nutrition and Health
Kyu Eun Lee, School of Medicine
Using a Modeling Approach to Understand Age- and Time-Trend in Harmful Use of Alcohol and to Estimate Cost and Health Impact of Scaling Up Managements for Hepatitis C Virus Infection in China
Odyssia Ng, Department of Economics
Exploring the Barriers to Women's Economic and Social Empowerment: Evidence from India
Sebastián Otero, Department of Economics
Affirmative Action, Ability and Mismatch
2018–2019 Academic Year
Caroline Abadeer, Department of Political Science
Local Governance and the Authoritarian State: The Politics of Urban Planning in the Middle East
Travis Baseler, Department of Economics
Determinants of the Migration Decision and Welfare of Migrants at their Destination
Annalisa Bolin, Department of Anthropology
A Country without Culture is Destroyed: Making Rwanda and Rwandans through Heritage