Past Recipients of Graduate Student Fellowships from Fall Quarter 2017 - Spring Quarter 2021
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. Awards are for the following academic year.
2020 - 2021 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
2019 - 2020 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
2018 - 2019 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
2017 - 2018 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