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.

2021 - 2022 Academic Year

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  Ishita Ahmed, School of Education
  Measurement Matters: Designing and Validating Holistic Child Development Measures in Rural Bangladesh
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  Daliah Al-Shakhshir, Graduate School of Business
  Local Integration of Palestine Refugees in Jordan
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  Feyaad Allie, Department of Political Science
  Power, Exclusion, and Identity: The Politics of the Muslim Disadvantage in India
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  Nina Buchmann, Department of Economics
  Paternalistic Discrimination in Bangladesh 
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  Alvaro Calderon, Department of Economics
  Ronald I. McKinnon Fellowship for Graduate Students
  Deliberation and Political Accountability
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  Gloria Chikaonda, School of Law
  Zimbabwean Marriage Reforms: Stakeholders, State Power and the Challenge of Social Engineering
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  Aria Duncan, Department of Earth System Science
  Protecting Rice from Coupled Climate and Arsenic Threats
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  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
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  Seyedeh Zahra Hejrati, Department of Management Science and Engineering
  How Can Digital Platforms and Data-Driven Algorithms Foster Entrepreneurship Among Refugees?
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  Kimberly Higuera, Department of Sociology
  Migrating Money: The Social Status Implications of US-Mexico Remittances
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  Jamie Hintson, Department of Political Science
  State Consolidation in the Shadow of Civil Conflict
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  Florencia Hnilo, Department of Economics
  Breaking Ties?
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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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  Akhila Kovvuri, Department of Economics
  Role of Labor Demand in Explaining Low Female Labor Force Participation in India
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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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  Lily (Zhili) Liu, Department of Economics
  Gender Differences in Advice-giving: Evidence from Lab-in-the-field Experiment 
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  Sebastian Lucek, Department of Political Science
  Social Re-Engineering: Political Coalitions and Social Change in India
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  Nicholas Lyon, Department of Political Science
  Varieties of Urbanism: Within-City and Across-City Variation in Urban Experiences in Uganda
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  Mae MacDonald, Department of Political Science
  Explaining Variation in Violence Against Women in Refugee Camps
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  Andrés Felipe Rodriguez Martinez, Department of Economics
  Governance Institutions and Cooperation: An Experiment in Sierra Leone
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  Janice Ndegwa, Department of History
  Indigenous Expertise, Inventive Uses of Language, and Practical Experience as Archives of Technological Knowledge: Insights from Youth in Cameroon
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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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  Teathloach Wal Nguot, Department of Anthropology
  At the Coast: Mobility and Diaspora in Macronesia
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  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
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  Matthew Ribar, Department of Political Science [Fall Quarter]
  Who Wants Property Rights? Evidence from Niger
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  Matthew Ribar, Department of Political Science [Spring Quarter]
  Who Wants Property Rights? Land Titles and Perceptions of Land Security
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  Emily Russell, Department of Political Science
  Linking Formal and Informal Governance for Tribal Communities in Madhya Pradesh
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  Alexa Russo, Department of Anthropology
  Imagining Agrarian Alternatives: Sustainable Agriculture, Gender, and Cooperatives in India
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  Anirudh Sankar, Department of Economics
  Improving Technology Adoption through Participatory Scientific Empowerment: Evidence from Uganda
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  Bianca Santos, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources
  Social and Ecological Impacts of Climate Change on Small Scale Fisheries in Palau
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  Priyam Saraf, Graduate School of Business
  Cognitive Communities, Managerial Decision-Making and Organizational Technology Adoption in Bangladesh
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  Chinmay Sonawane, Department of Biology
  Benefits of Lions to Low-Income Farmers in Kenya
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  Catherine Thomas, Department of Psychology
  Enculturating Behavioral Science for Development: Beyond the WEIRD, Independent Paradigm
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  Sarah Thompson, Department of Political Science
  According to Tradition: Compliance and Legitimacy in Indigenous Mexico
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  Angela Tsao, Department of Earth System Science
  Scalable Mapping of Cashew Plantations in Mozambique for Climate-Smart Tree Cropping
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  Mark Walsh, Department of Economics
  Understanding Peer Effects in Platform Industries: Experimental Evidence from Mobile Money in Pakistan
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  Renan Chaves Yoshida, Department of Economics
  Ronald I. McKinnon Fellowship for Graduate Students
  Stigma, Beliefs, and Productivity