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Past Recipients of Graduate Student Research Funding Beginning Fall Quarter 2021

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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

Health
Education and Skills
Gender and Equity

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

Governance and Institutions
Gender and Equity

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

Governments and Institutions
Business, Entrepreneurship, and Work

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

Gender and Equity

Nina Buchmann, Department of Economics
Paternalistic Discrimination

Gender and Equity
Education and Skills

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

Governments and Institutions

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

Environment and Climate Change
Health

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

Education and Skills
Gender and Equity
Urbanization and Infrastructure

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

Innovations in Methods and Data
Health
Environment and Climate Change

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

Trade and Migration
Business, Entrepreneurship, and Work
Urbanization and Infrastructure

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

Health
Urbanization and Infrastructure

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

Education and Skills

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

Gender and Equity
Governments and Institutions
Business, Entrepreneurship, and Work

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

Governments and Institutions
Environment and Climate Change
Trade and Migration

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

Governments and Institutions
Environment and Climate Change

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

Governments and Institutions
Urbanization and Infrastructure

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

Health
Innovations in Methods and Data

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

Business, Entrepreneurship, and Work

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

2021 - 2022 Academic Year

Education and Skills
Innovations in Methods and Data

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

Trade and Migration
Governments and Institutions

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

Governments and Institutions
Gender and Equity
Innovations in Methods and Data

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

Gender and Equity
Education and Skills
Trade and Migration

Nina Buchmann, Department of Economics
Paternalistic Discrimination in Bangladesh 

Governments and Institutions

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

Gender and Equity
Governments and Institutions

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

Environment and Climate Change

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

Health
Governments and Institutions

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

Business, Entrepreneurship, and Work
Education and Skills

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

Gender and Equity
Trade and Migration

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

Governments and Institutions
Innovations in Methods and Data
Urbanization and Infrastructure

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

Innovations in Methods and Data
Business, Entrepreneurship, and Work

Florencia Hnilo, Department of Economics
Breaking Ties?

Business, Entrepreneurship, and Work

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

Gender and Equity
Business, Entrepreneurship, and Work

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

Innovations in Methods and Data
Governments and Institutions
Business, Entrepreneurship, and Work

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

Gender and Equity
Trade and Migration

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

Gender and Equity

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

Governments and Institutions
Gender and Equity
Urbanization and Infrastructure

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

Urbanization and Infrastructure
Governments and Institutions

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

Gender and Equity
Governments and Institutions
Innovations in Methods and Data

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

Governments and Institutions
Innovations in Methods and Data

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

Education and Skills
Business, Entrepreneurship, and Work
Urbanization and Infrastructure

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

Governments and Institutions
Trade and Migration
Urbanization and Infrastructure

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

Environment and Climate Change

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

Governments and Institutions

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

Governments and Institutions

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

Urbanization and Infrastructure
Business, Entrepreneurship, and Work
Governments and Institutions

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

Governments and Institutions
Gender and Equity

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

Governments and Institutions
Environment and Climate Change
Gender and Equity

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

Education and Skills
Environment and Climate Change
Innovations in Methods and Data

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

Environment and Climate Change
Gender and Equity
Governments and Institutions

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

Business, Entrepreneurship, and Work
Innovations in Methods and Data
Trade and Migration

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

Environment and Climate Change
Business, Entrepreneurship, and Work

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

Business, Entrepreneurship, and Work
Gender and Equity

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

Governments and Institutions

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

Innovations in Methods and Data
Environment and Climate Change

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

Business, Entrepreneurship, and Work

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

Business, Entrepreneurship, and Work
Education and Skills

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