Past Recipients of Graduate Student Research Funding from Fall Quarter 2016 - Spring 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.
2020 - 2021 Academic Year
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Why Do Marginalized Groups Remain Underrepresented? The Case of Muslims in India -
Financial Aid, and the Supply and Demand for Higher Education -
Cultivating the Sun: Solar Development in Rural Tunisia -
Effects of the Social Credit System on Political Attitudes in China -
AI, Big Data, and Economic Development: the Rise of Digital Governance in China? -
Tolerance in the Metropolis? Urbanization and Inter-group Relations in Africa -
The Caged Economy: Do Traditional Leaders Create Distortions Through Redistribution? Evidence From a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Sierra Leone -
Can a Growth Mindset Intervention Reduce the Gender Gap in Challenge-Seeking Behavior and Competitiveness? -
Imagining Agrarian Alternatives: Sustainable Agriculture, Gender, and Cooperatives in India -
The State of Land Acquisition: How Conflict Over Land Undermines State Capacity and Development -
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Peasant Responses to the Land Reform in the Late Russian Empire -
How to Best Leverage Personality Tests for Supporting Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries? -
Ronald I. McKinnon Fellowship for Graduate Students
A Study of the Political Economy of Nationalism in Autocracies: Identity, Redistribution, and Growth
2019 - 2020 Academic Year
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Paternalistic Discrimination in Bangladesh - Evidence from the Lab and from the Field -
The Economics of Domestic Violence - Evidence from Bangladesh -
The Effects of Slum Clearance on Its Residents: Evidence from Victorian England -
How Can Digital Platforms and Data-Driven Algorithms Foster Entrepreneurship Among Refugees? -
The Migration of Money: The Social Life of Mexican Remittances -
Social Signaling of Male Pride in Husband-Wife Pairs and Women's Employment in Digital Jobs from Home -
Raising the Bar: Increasing Women's Own Aspirations and Men's Expectations of Them -
Understanding Role Marketing Analytics And Business Development in Emerging Markets: A Field Experiment with SMEs in Rwanda and Nigeria -
Engineering the Arts: Scaling up Collective Efforts to Increase the Yield of Successful Novice Ghanaian Product Developers and Innovators at a Start Up School -
Voting for Peace? How Conflict Shapes Vote Choice in Myanmar -
Improving Neighborhood Safety in Developing Cities via Non-Monetary Public Prestige Channels: Experimental Evidence from Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania -
Friends Don't Lie: Allocating Digital Credit via Peer Information -
Protest to Win Hearts and Minds: Experimental Evidence from Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Movement -
Ronald I. McKinnon Fellowship for Graduate Students
Consequences of Domestic Labor Outsourcing to the Employment Relationship -
Development vs. Democracy: The Politics of Land Acquisition and Resistance -
Too Much or Too Little Faith? Behavioral Biases and Opportunity Entrepreneurship in Colombia -
Evaluating a Novel Approach for Expanding the Pool of Entrepreneurs Creating Small and Growing Business in Myanmar -
Is Good Governance "Good" Development? Dialogue and Local Political Cultures in Peru -
Redistribution and Territorial Control: Evidence from China -
Ronald I. McKinnon Fellowship for Graduate Students
Imperfect Information and Hidden Expenditures: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Tanzania
2018 - 2019 Academic Year
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Islamic Conservatism and Women's Empowerment -
Politicians, Information, and Gender Discrimination in Ghana -
Domestic Violence and the Emergence of Social Norms, A Randomized Control Trial in Bangladesh -
Immigrant Diets, Past and Present: Dining at the Grosse Île Quarantine Station in 1847 -
Microscale magnetic levitation to detect drug resistance in malaria-infected blood at the point of care in resource-limited settings, with a pilot study in Busia, Uganda -
The Long-Term Impact of Slum Demolition on Its Residents: Evidence from Victorian London -
Beyond Happiness: The Effect of Water Connections on Premises on Maternal Stress, Caregiving and Child Development in Rural Western Uganda

- Shreya Kankanhalli, Graduate School of Business
Going Cashless in Emerging Market Retail: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Guadalajara -
Afforestation Incentive Design for Smallholder Farmers in Uganda -
Transnational Advocacy and Same-Sex Rights in Uganda -
Do Men Make More, or Report Making More? Measuring Microenterprise Profits in India -
Consequences of Domestic Labor Outsourcing for the Employment Relationship -
Tracking the Culprit: Quantifying Sources of Campylobacter Transmission Routes in Rural India through Next Generation Microbial Tools -
Do What I Do, or Do What I Say? How Parents’ Attitudes and Expectations Shape the Gender Gap in Competition for the Next Generation -
Identifying Preventive Measures for Sexual Violence in Areas of Conflict -
"Personal Initiative” versus “Interpersonal Initiative:” Testing the Psychological, Social, and Economic Effects of Two Models of Women’s Agency in Niger -
India's Urban Voter Problem: Theory and Evidence -
Refining Politics: Oil Development, Environmental Activism, and Political Improvisation in Rural Malaysia -
Coupled Effects of Climate and Soil Arsenic on Rice Yield and Quality in China -
The Value of Delegation in Hiring -
Fining for Living: Central-Local Struggle in the Relaxation of One-Child Policy
2017 - 2018 Academic Year
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Information Asymmetries and the Perceived Returns to Migration: Experimental Evidence from Kenya -
The Spirit of Entrepreneurship in China -
Microscale magnetic levitation to detect drug resistance in malaria-infected blood at the point of care in resource-limited settings, with a pilot study in Busia, Uganda -
Exploring Lead Chromate Adulteration of Turmeric in Bangladesh -
The Effects of Customized Entrepreneurship Training Programs on Entrepreneurial Ventures in Developing Economies -
Ronald I. McKinnon Memorial Fellowship for Graduate Students
Should your Government Sell you Goods? Evidence from the Milk Market in Mexico -
Identifying Environmental Data Gaps for Improved Coastal and Marine Resource -
Solutions to Improve Health and Alleviate Poverty in Madagascar -
An Anthropological Exploration of Skin Donation in Kathmandu, Nepal -
Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Public-Private Wage Differentials from Brazil -
Demanding Deals: Developing Countries' Behind-the-Border Commitments in Trade -
How Do Ethnic Parties Decline? The Microfoundations of Identity Politics in Pakistan’s Megacity -
Education Technology in Developing Countries: Does Replacing Teachers with Computers Really Improve Student Learning? -
School Dropout and Juvenile Crime in Latin America: Evidence from Brazil -
Optimal Chlorination of Drinking Water in Dhaka, Bangladesh -
Ronald I. McKinnon Memorial Fellowship for Graduate Students
Matching Problem of Civil Service -
Introduction of On-Premises Piped Water Access to Rural Households in Southern Zambia: Implications for Poverty Alleviation, Female Entrepreneurship, and Water Quality -
Provincialized Poverty: Encountering the 'State' through Resource-Based Development in Peru -
Nation-building and Redistribution in China
2016 - 2017 Academic Year
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Returns to Tertiary Education: Evidence From an Unintended Experiment in Brazil -
Ronald I. McKinnon Fellowship for Graduate Students
Corruption and Firms: Evidence from Brazil -
Ronald I. McKinnon Fellowship for Graduate Students
Food Labelling and (Mis)Information: Evidence from the Chilean Industry -
Kinship, Religious Identity, and Local Service Provision in Weak States: Evidence from Postwar Lebanon -
Education Technology in Developing Countries: Does Replacing Teachers with Computers Really Improve Student Learning? -
Breaking the Pollution Cycle: Career Incentives of Local Leaders and Air Pollution Control in China