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. Awards made during an academic year were not necessarily utilized that same year.

2021 - 2022 Academic Year

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  Nina Buchmann, Department of Economics
  Paternalistic Discrimination in Bangladesh
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  Aria Duncan, Department of Earth System Science
  Protecting Rice from Coupled Climate and Arsenic Threats
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  Rupali Kaul, Graduate School of Business
  Assessing the Impact of Relational vs Transactional Selling Approaches: Field Experiment with Small Firms in Latin America
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  Alexandr Lenk, Department of Economics
  Can Moral Nudges Play a Role in Development? Evidence from a Field Experiment with Promises
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  Angela Leocata, Department of Anthropology
  Navigating Aspirational Trajectories: Underemployment in Minas Gerais, Brazil
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  Shantanu Nevrekar, Department of Anthropology
  Banking on Community? Cooperative Banks and Markets of Financial Inclusion in Small Town India
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  Matthew Ribar, Department of Political Science
  Who Wants Property Rights? Evidence from Niger
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  Andrés Felipe Rodriguez Martinez, Department of Economics
  Governance Institutions and Cooperation: An Experiment in Sierra Leone
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  Alexa Russo, Department of Anthropology
  Imagining Agrarian Alternatives: Sustainable Agriculture, Gender, and Cooperatives in India
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  Mark Walsh, Department of Economics
  Understanding Peer Effects in Platform Industries: Experimental Evidence from Mobile Money in Pakistan