Closing the Gender Gap
Several IDEC students received funding to test what types of incentives encourage women in developing countries to enter competitive labor markets.
Student Research
Our students have the opportunity to travel overseas and conduct field research for their master’s thesis. Students have traveled far and wide to countries such as the Philippines, India, El Salvador, Guatemala, and elsewhere.
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Research
2015
- David Mayom: The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Labor Market Measures: Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa
- Dustin Davis: Consumption Smoothing and Labor Supply Allocation Decisions: Evidence From Tanzania
- Elnaz Safarha: Making Ice Cream in Tehran: A Field Experiment on the Impact of Attendance Interventions for Street Working Children
- Hang Pham: The Impact of Official Development Assistance on Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from Vietnam
- James Anderson: A Test of the Household Separation Hypothesis in Rwanda
- Kate Pennington: Chutes and Ladders: Climate Variability and the Decision to Enter Sex Work in India
- Manny Kaliontzakis: The Curious Case of Greece: The Impact of Fiscal Policy Shocks on Key Macroeconomic Variables
- Michael Dickerson: Crowded Out: The Effect of Sex Ratios on the Sex Worker Labor Market and Migration in India
- Morgan Adams: The Impact of Borehole Wells and a Hygiene and Sanitation Program on Diarrhea Evidence from Rural Southwest Uganda
- Philip Jakob: The Impact of International Migration and Remittances on Children’s Education in El Salvador
- Sherefedin Nuri: Goal Setting, Self-Help Groups, and Incentives as a Poverty Alleviation Strategy: Evidence from Field Experiments in Indonesia, Colombia and Ethiopia
- Spencer MacColl: Unintended Consequences of Enforcement in a Fisheries Institution: Results from an Artefactual Experiment in Tanzania
- Virginia Graves: Does Poverty Really Impede Cognitive Function? Experimental Evidence from Tanzanian Fishers
- William Travis Clark: Privatization and FDI: Examining Growth in Vietnam’s Provinces
2014
- Nilza Arune Abdurramane: FDI and Economic Growth: How is Sectoral FDI Affecting Firms’ Performance in Mozambique
- Eric Adebayo: Land As Power, An Analysis of Female Land Inheritance and Intrahousehold Bargaining in Rwanda
- Odbayar Batmunkh *: Heterogeneous Effects of Commodity Price Shocks on Inflation Rates. Evidence From a Panel Study (Chile)
- Heather Belfor: Impact of Natural Disaster Exposure on Prosocial Preferences and Public Goods Provision Evidence From the Solomon Islands
- Thomas Dreesen *: Early Life Rainfall and Later Life Human Capital Outcomes in Bangladesh
- Laura Frederick: Impact of Mobile Money Usage on Microenterprise Evidence From Zambia
- Nicholas Garcia: Matrilineal Asset Inheritance, Female Bargaining Power, and Household Welfare in Malawi
- Justin Grider *: The Economic Impact of Wheelchairs for the Disabled in Ethiopia
- Pierre Kolowe: Determinants of Urban Land and Property Values: The Case of Rwanda
- Sarah Morrow: Typhoons and Lower Birth Weights in the Philippines
- Tom Sackman: Can Community Water Projects Combat Child Diarrhea? Results From the Solomon Islands
- Erin Steffen: Women’s Empowerment and Community-Driven Development Evidence From the Solomon Islands
- Tobias Sytsma *: Handling Risk Testosterone and Risk Preference Evidence From Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Emily Wetherley: Typhoons and Temperature Impact Crime Rates: Evidence From the Philippines
- Yue Zhou: FDI and Technical Efficiency in Manufacturing Firms: A Stochastic Frontier Approach (Five African Countries)
- Kate Zitelli: Impacts of Typhoons on Children’s Human Capital Investments in Filipino Households
2013
- Dunia Aburish *: Risk, Religion, and Islamic Micro finance (Jordan)
- Ngan Bui: Different Uses of Microfinance Among Islamic and Conventional Borrowers: Evidence From Jordan
- Teddi Auker: The Effects of Child Sponsorship on Younger Sibling Confidence (Indonesia)
- Flor Calvo: Effects of Shoe Donations on Children’s Time Allocation TOMS Shoes in El Salvador
- Mario Javier Carrillo: Does Child Sponsorship Have a Positive Impact on the Quality of Life and Social Behavior of Sponsored Children? Evidence From Indonesia
- Baizhu Chen: Are There Rational Speculative Bubbles in Chinese Stock Markets
- Stephanie Chou: Does Competitiveness Transmit From Parent to Child? Experimental Evidence from China
- John Dellipriscoli *: Can Neoclassical Trade Theory Explain Congressional Voting? (USA)
- Yilin Gao: How Do Gender Salient Prizes Affect Girls’ Competitiveness? An Experimental Study in China
- Jennifer Graham: The FII Model as an Investment in Patience: Exploring Time Preferences in Medellin, Colombia
- Zachary Intemann: Migration and Children’s Schooling and Labor: Evidence From El Salvador
- Maria Paulina Aguinaga Lezcano: Do Self Help Groups Work on Achieving Economic Goals? New Evidence From Field Experiment in Medellin, Columbia
- Carmen Ly: Does Microfinance Reach out to the Poorest of the Poor? Evidence From Jordan
- Lauren Pugh: Cash-in-Hand, Wives-in-Power: An Exploratory Analysis of Microfinance in Jordan
- Nicole Shevloff: Are Donation Programs “Bad Aid”? The Impact of Shoe Donations on Local Demand, With Experimental Evidence From Rural El Salvador
- Lauren Skora *: Incentives to Improve Economic Conditions: A Field Experiment in Medellín, Colombia
- Nike Start: Why Risk It? The Effect of Risk and Time Preferences on Microfinance Loan Default (Jordan)
- Feven Wordofa *: Gender Differences in Competitive Inclinations: Evidence from Artefactual Field Experiments in China
2012
- Bem Andzenge: Governance, Trust, and Economic Exchange: Experimental Evidence From Italy
- James Boyle: Ethnic Composition and Support for Income Redistribution in Kosovo
- Goldie Chow: The Role of Family Ties in Mitigating Moral Hazard: Firm-Level Evidence From Tamil Nadu, India
- Ashley Dernback: Willingness to Pay for Improved Power Reliability: Evidence From the Machine Parts Sector in Coimbatore, India
- Sire Diedhiou: Do Type of Agricultural Technology and Mode of Adoption Determine Household Decision to Adopt Technology? Evidence From Bangladesh
- Harold Alvarez Fernandez: Risk Aversion and the Adoption of New Technology: Evidence From Southern Bolivia
- Zeinab Golmohammadian: The Economy of Iranian Households Before and After Removing Energy Subsidies
- Ruben Grangaard: Motivations and Outcomes of Entrepreneurial Activity: Analysis of South India’s Manufacturing Sector
- Cong Huang *: The Impact of Local Environmental Quality on International Tourism Demand: The Case of China
- Jennifer Jung: The Effects of Animal Donation on Rural Women’s Time Allocation: An Impact Evaluation in Guatemala
- Kyle Martin: Effects of Conflict on Trust Among the Young: Experimental Evidence From Kosovo
- Joy Mayaki: With Good Governance Will They Come? Effect of Foreign Aid on Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence From Africa
- Daniel McKay *: Does the Mafia Suppress Entrepreneurship in Italy?
- Nitikarn Montripisut: International Tourism and Foreign Direct Investment in Thailand
- Timothy Ong: The Impact of Livestock Ownership on Child Labour: An Investigation in Rural Rwanda
- Svetlana Pimkina *: Livestock Donation and Child Health: Evidence from Heifer International, Rwanda
- Thanida Pornprayuth: Effects of Outward Migration on FDI Inflows: Evidence From Thailand
- Rosemary Rawlins: An Impact Study of the Heifer Project: Effects of Dairy Cow and Meat Goat Donation on Household Nutrition in Rural Rwanda
- Carolina Better Romero *: Does Owning a Family Business Affect Firm Performance? Evidence From Manufacturing Enterprises in India
- Ruby Viramontes: The Effect of Heifer International Donations on a Child’s Education Attainment in Guatemala
- Nicholas Weiss: Complementing Trust Measures: Surveys, Games, and the Case of Kosovo
- Travis Wiggans: The Effect of Contract Enforcement on Market Efficiency: An Experimental Perspective (Kosovo)
2011
- Nathan Cutler: Social Networks as Substitutes for Micro-Health Insurance: Experimental Evidence from Cambodia
- Gregory Donheiser: The Impact of Risk Preferences on the Purchase of Health Insurance: Evidence from Cambodia
- Alexandra Ghosh: Civil Conflict and Female Bargaining Power: Evidence from Tajikistan
- Kate Heryford: Who Borrows? Entrepreneurial Propensity and Microfinance in Rwanda
- Frank Hoffman: Networks and Insurance: Results from an Artefactual Field Experiment in Cambodia
- Marko Koosel *: Civil War Violence: Economic Ruin or Opportunity? (Tajikistan)
- Patrick Madigan: Framing, Loss Aversion, the Endowment Effect, and the Status Quo Bias as Facilitators of Health Insurance Uptake: Experimental Evidence From Cambodia
- Juliana Matson *: The Economic Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture in Ethiopia: A Ricardian Analysis
- Evan Neubacher: The Effect of Microfinance on Household Welfare While Controlling for Entrepreneurial Propensity: Evidence From Rwanda
- Ram Rajbanshi: Microcredit and Household Welfare in Rural Nepal
- Herman E. Ramirez *: Quantifying the Impacts of Child Sponsorship Using the Life Satisfaction Approach – Evidence from Bolivia
- Phillip H. Ross *: An Investigation of Reference Point Shifts in a Child Sponsorship Program
- Lexi Russell *: Conflict and Civil Action in Tajikistan
- Priyanka Talwar: Community Water-Source Maintenance Contribution by Local Users: The Role of Prosocial Behavior and Warfare (Sierra Leone)
- Kittiyaratch Thanakornmonkkonchai: Foreign Direct Investment and Growth: The Role of Institutional Quality
- Raj Thiagaraj: Infrastructure as a Determinant of Foreign Direct Investment: An Industry Specific Analysis (Vietnam)
- Timothy D. Van Vugt: Microfinance in Rwanda: An Event Study of Fundamental Household Events
- Kenneth Skyler Wilson *: Foreign Direct Investment and Economics Growth: Does Financial Structure Matter? (Vietnam)
2010
- Benjamin Bottorff: The Impact of Formal Schooling on Migration and Employment Outcomes: Evidence From Rural Guatemala
- Elizabeth Geoffroy: Opportunity Costs of Schooling in Malawi
- Jonathan Kastelic *: Impact of HIV Testing on Risk Perceptions and Risky Sexual Behaviors Among Seronegative Youth and Young Adults in Malawi’s Salima District
- Sameh Habib *: Intellectual Property Rights and Technology Transfer: The Role of Skill Level
- Bassel Zinaty: Risk Aversion in Post-Tsunami Thailand
- Kevin Keefe: Bolsa Familia & Child Labor: Impact Evaluation Using Prosperity Score Matching (Brazil)
- Carl von Kessler: Personal Determinants of Trust Reciprocity and Risk Preferences After a Natural Disaster: Experimental Evidence From Thailand
- Guy Innes: Human Capital vs. Social Capital – Influences on Egg Productivity in Southern Ethiopia
- Joshua Holtrust: Estimating and Identifying Determinants of Individual Discount Rates: A Field Experiment in Post-Tsunami Thailand
- M. Eliana Zeballos: Ex-Ante Moral Hazard in Microcredit Loan Default: An Artefactual Field Experiment in Bolivia
- Arturo Trejo *: Joint-Liability Lending and Asymmetric Information Problems: An Experimental Case Study from Bolivia
- Yada Saraneeyatham: The Determinants of Indian FDI in Thailand
2009
- Jane Oshiomhole: Impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Inflow on Internal Migration in China: Complements or Substitutes
- Brian Duford: The Growth Effects of FDI in Kazakhstan: Do Perceptions Match Reality?
- Mariama Yakubu: The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Internal Migration: The Case of India
- Gonzalo de los Rios: The Effects of Money Stock on Inflation and Spending: A Field Experiment Approach
- Felipe Dizon: Rural Out-Migration and Farm Asset Accumulation: The Case of Guatemala
- Malinda Perez: Health Education Seminars and Their Impact on Knowledge and Demand for Small Health Investments: The Case of Rural Guatemala
- Joanna Chu *: Child Sponsorship: An Evaluation of Long-Term Economic and Educational Outcomes(Uganda)
- Laine Rutledge: Impacts of Child Sponsorship on Health and Leadership Outcomes in the Long-Term: Evidence from Rural Uganda
- Sabrina Bellotti: The Impact of a Child Sponsorship Program on Trust and Trustworthiness (Uganda)
- Joshua Weinberg: Military Aid and Economic Growth: Identifying Transmission Mechanisms in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Michaelin Melton: Loan Participation and Childhood Investments: A Case Study from Chennai
- Yayoi Watanabe: Measuring Microfinance Impact on Business Income and Household Expenditures: Chennai
- Shuofei Yang: The Impact of Microfinance on Health Outcomes: A Case Study in India
- Jessica Varney: Risk Management Solutions: Analyzing the Demand for Agricultural Insurance in Rural Peru
- Sarah Walker: Health Investments Under Uncertainty: A Ugandan Case Study
- n/a: Effect of Varied Credit Sources on Household Chore Contribution in Chennai
- n/a: A Randomized Health Education Intervention and Subjects' Propensity to Learn: Evidence from Busia, Uganda
- Jennifer Murphy *: Malaria Bed Net Investments in Uganda: The Role of Perceptions and Risk (Uganda)
Contact Info
MS International and Development Economics
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