Past Recipients of Graduate Student Research Funding Beginning Fall Quarter 2021
Graduate student research funding supports faculty-supervised doctoral student research activities, particularly field-based work on global poverty and economic development in middle- and low-income countries.
2022 - 2023 Academic Year



Paras Arora, Department of Anthropology
A Home Away from Home: Tracing the Rise of Family-Led Institutional Care for Autistic Adults in Delhi, India


Ameze Belo-Osagie, Department of Political Science
Nigeria Decides: Campaign Strategy in the 2023 Election


Adrian Blattner, Department of Economics
Breaking the Bubble - The Determinants and Effects of Contact

Nina Buchmann, Department of Economics
Paternalistic Discrimination


Ayodele Dada, Department of Psychology
Framing Education as a Legacy to Reduce Gender Disparities in Nigeria

Joao Francisco Pugliese, Department of Economics
The Effects of Increasing Access to and Reading of Professionally-Produced News


Ian Harryman, Department of Earth System Science
Social Networks, Environmental Change, and Health Among Shodagor Communities in Bangladesh



Florencia Hnilo, Department of Economics
Playgrounds in India: Impacts on the Community



Christopher Knight, Department of Biology
Social-Ecological Connections Between Seafood Borne Disease and Food Security in the Central Pacific



Mae MacDonald, Department of Political Science
What are the Effects of Employment Rights for Refugees and Their Asylum Countries? The Case of Kenya


Tamar (Tamri) Matiashvili, Department of Economics
The Effects of Introduction of Modern Medicine: the Case of the Russian Empire

Caylee O'Connor, Department of Economics
Understanding the Impact of Teen Pregnancy School Expulsion Policies on Girls' Outcomes: Evidence from Tanzania



Natalya Rahman, Department of Political Science
Paths into the Labor Force and Women's Empowerment in Pakistan



Christian Robles-Baez, Department of History
Setting-Up the Coffee Empire: The United States and Brazil in the Early 19th Century


Emily Russell, Department of Political Science
Policing the Plantation: The Long-Run Influence of Plantation Labor on Coercion in Assam


Eli Scott, Department of Political Science
Assessing the Influence of Rural Values, Identity, and Consciousness in South Africa


Sumer Vaid, Department of Communications
Digital Media and Wellbeing in India: A Digital Phenotyping Study

Mark Walsh, Department of Economics
Choosing Your Words Wisely? Filtered Communication and Mobile Banking Information Diffusion in Pakistan
2021 - 2022 Academic Year


Ishita Ahmed, School of Education
Measurement Matters: Designing and Validating Holistic Child Development Measures in Rural Bangladesh


Daliah Al-Shakhshir, Graduate School of Business
Local Integration of Palestine Refugees in Jordan



Feyaad Allie, Department of Political Science
Power, Exclusion, and Identity: The Politics of the Muslim Disadvantage in India



Nina Buchmann, Department of Economics
Paternalistic Discrimination in Bangladesh

Alvaro Calderon, Department of Economics
Ronald I. McKinnon Fellowship for Graduate Students
Deliberation and Political Accountability


Gloria Chikaonda, School of Law
Zimbabwean Marriage Reforms: Stakeholders, State Power and the Challenge of Social Engineering

Aria Duncan, Department of Earth System Science
Protecting Rice from Coupled Climate and Arsenic Threats


Tiên-Dung Hà, Department of Anthropology
The Rise and Fall of Vietnam's COVID-19 Pandemic Preparedness Infrastructure: How COVID-19 Affects Vietnam's Economy, Science and Politics


Seyedeh Zahra Hejrati, Department of Management Science and Engineering
How Can Digital Platforms and Data-Driven Algorithms Foster Entrepreneurship Among Refugees?


Kimberly Higuera, Department of Sociology
Migrating Money: The Social Status Implications of US-Mexico Remittances



Jamie Hintson, Department of Political Science
State Consolidation in the Shadow of Civil Conflict


Florencia Hnilo, Department of Economics
Breaking Ties?

Rupali Kaul, Graduate School of Business
Assessing the Impact of Relational vs Transactional Selling Approaches: Field Experiment with Small Firms in Latin America


Akhila Kovvuri, Department of Economics
Role of Labor Demand in Explaining Low Female Labor Force Participation in India



Alexandr Lenk, Department of Economics
Can Moral Nudges Play a Role in Development? Evidence from a Field Experiment with Promises


Angela Leocata, Department of Anthropology
Navigating Aspirational Trajectories: Underemployment in Minas Gerais, Brazil

Lily Liu, Department of Economics
Gender Differences in Advice-giving: Evidence from Lab-in-the-field Experiment



Sebastian Lucek, Department of Political Science
Social Re-Engineering: Political Coalitions and Social Change in India


Nicholas Lyon, Department of Political Science
Varieties of Urbanism: Within-City and Across-City Variation in Urban Experiences in Uganda



Mae MacDonald, Department of Political Science
Explaining Variation in Violence Against Women in Refugee Camps


Andrés Felipe Rodriguez, Department of Economics
Governance Institutions and Cooperation: An Experiment in Sierra Leone



Janice Ndegwa, Department of History
Indigenous Expertise, Inventive Uses of Language, and Practical Experience as Archives of Technological Knowledge: Insights from Youth in Cameroon



Shantanu Nevrekar, Department of Anthropology
Banking on Community? Cooperative Banks and Markets of Financial Inclusion in Small Town India

Teathloach Wal Nguot, Department of Anthropology
At the Coast: Mobility and Diaspora in Macronesia

Joao Francisco Pugliese, Department of Economics
News Consumption in Developing Countries: Consumption Patterns and the Effects on Increasing Consumption on Information Knowledge and Political Preferences

Matthew Ribar, Department of Political Science [Fall Quarter]
Who Wants Property Rights? Evidence from Niger



Matthew Ribar, Department of Political Science [Spring Quarter]
Who Wants Property Rights? Land Titles and Perceptions of Land Security


Emily Russell, Department of Political Science
Linking Formal and Informal Governance for Tribal Communities in Madhya Pradesh



Alexa Russo, Department of Anthropology
Imagining Agrarian Alternatives: Sustainable Agriculture, Gender, and Cooperatives in India



Anirudh Sankar, Department of Economics
Improving Technology Adoption through Participatory Scientific Empowerment: Evidence from Uganda



Bianca Santos, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources
Social and Ecological Impacts of Climate Change on Small Scale Fisheries in Palau



Priyam Saraf, Graduate School of Business
Cognitive Communities, Managerial Decision-Making and Organizational Technology Adoption in Bangladesh


Chinmay Sonawane, Department of Biology
Benefits of Lions to Low-Income Farmers in Kenya


Catherine Thomas, Department of Psychology
Enculturating Behavioral Science for Development: Beyond the WEIRD, Independent Paradigm

Sarah Thompson, Department of Political Science
According to Tradition: Compliance and Legitimacy in Tribal Communities in Pakistan


Angela Tsao, Department of Earth System Science
Scalable Mapping of Cashew Plantations in Mozambique for Climate-Smart Tree Cropping

Mark Walsh, Department of Economics
Understanding Peer Effects in Platform Industries: Experimental Evidence from Mobile Money in Pakistan


Renan Chaves Yoshida, Department of Economics
Ronald I. McKinnon Fellowship for Graduate Students
Stigma, Beliefs, and Productivity