All Published Research Using AidData

Below is a compilation of published research that uses the main AidData database or tools, including work by scholars who are affiliated with the AidData program, as well as other researchers. If there is an item that you would like to see included here, please contact us.

"Can Peace Be Purchased? A Sectoral Level Analysis of Aid's Influence on Transnational Terrorism."

Michael G. Findley and Joseph K. Young. Public Choice (forthcoming), 2012.

"Foreign aid and global governance: Buying Bretton Woods – The Swiss-Bloc Case."

James Raymond Vreeland. Review of International Organizations 6 (3-4): 369-391, 2011.

"The International Finance Corporation and Forest Loss: A Cross-National Analysis."

John M. Shandra, Eric Shircliff, and Bruce London. Journal of World Systems Research 17 (2): 328-352, 2011.

"Foreign Aid and Regime Change: Assessing the Impact of Different Donors."

Sarah Blodgett Bermeo. World Development 39 (11), November 2011.

"Dodging Adverse Selection: How Donor Type and Governance Condition Aid’s Effects on School Enrollment."

Zachary Christensen, Dustin Homer, and Daniel L. Nielson. World Development 39 (11): 2044-2053, 2011.

"Are ‘New’ Donors Different? Comparing the Allocation of Bilateral Aid between Non-DAC and DAC Donor Countries."

Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp, and Rainer Thiele. World Development 39 (11), November 2011.

"Rhetoric versus Reality: The Best and Worst of Aid Agency Practices."

William Easterly and Claudia R. Williamson. World Development 39 (11), November 2011.

"To Empower or Impoverish? The Sector-by-Sector Effectiveness of Foreign Aid."

Mike Findley, Darren Hawkins, Rich Nielsen, Dan Nielson, and Sven Wilson. World Development 39 (11), November 2011.

"The Geography of Foreign Aid and Violent Armed Conflict."

Michael Findley, Daniel Strandow, Josh Powell,and Jeff Tanner. World Development 39 (11), November 2011.

"The Money Trail: Ranking Donor Transparency in Foreign Aid."

Anirban Ghosh, Homi Kharas. World Development 39 (11), November 2011.

"What Determines the Size of Aid Projects?"

Christopher Kilby. World Development 39 (11), November 2011.

"Aid Quality and Donor Rankings."

Stephen Knack, F. Halsey Rogers, and Nicholas Eubank. World Development 39 (11), November 2011.

"Coding Error or Statistical Embellishment? The Political Economy of Reporting Climate Aid."

Axel Michaelowa and Katharina Michaelowa. World Development 39 (11), November 2011.

"Assessing Arab Aid: Trends, Explanations, and Unreported Transfers."

Debra Shushan and Christopher Marcoux. World Development 39 (11), November 2011.

"More Dollars than Sense: Refining Our Knowledge of Development Finance Using AidData."

Michael J. Tierney, Daniel L. Nielson, Darren G. Hawkins, J. Timmons Roberts, Michael G. Findley, Ryan M. Powers, Bradley Parks, Sven E. Wilson, Robert L. Hicks. World Development 39 (11), November, 2011.

"The Swarm Principle? A Spatial Analysis of Donor Coordination in Sub-Saharan Africa."

Michael Findley and Josh Powell. 2011.

"Climate business for poverty reduction? The Role of the World Bank."

Axel Michaelowa and Katharina Michaelowa. The Review of International Organizations 6 (3-4): 259-286, September 2011.

"International Development Assistance for Climate Change Adaptation in Africa: The Aid Scramble."

Catherine Weaver and Christian Peratsakis. Climate Change and African Political Stability Program Policy Brief No. 3, September 2011.

"Rogue Aid? The Determinants of China’s Aid Allocation."

Axel Dreher and Andreas Fuchs. University Libre de Bruxelles Working Paper CEB No. 11-035, September, 2011.

"Informing the Financing of Universal Energy Access: An Assessment of Current Financial Flows."

Morgan Bazilian, Patrick Nussbaumer, Giorgio Gualberti, Erik Haites, Michael Levi, Judy Siegel, Daniel M. Kammen, and Joergen Fenhann. The Electricity Journal 24 (7): 57-82, August 21, 2011.

"Foreign Aid Shocks as a Cause of Violent Armed Conflict."

Richard Nielsen, Michael Findley, Zachary Davis, Tara Candland, and Daniel Nielson. American Journal of Political Science, April 2011.

"Examining the Relationship between International Aid and Mangrove Deforestation in Coastal Ecuador from 1970 to 2006."

Stuart Edward Hamilton and Clare Stankwitz. Journal of Land Use Science, March 31, 2011.

"The Case for Adaptation Funding."

Sonja van Renssen. Nature Climate Change 1 (19–20), March 29, 2011.

"India’s Growing Involvement in Humanitarian Assistance."

Claudia Meier and C.S.R. Murthy. Working Paper, March 17, 2011.

"The Politics of Effective Foreign Aid."

Joseph Wright and Matthew Winters. Annual Review of Political Science, May 2010.

"Gendering Agricultural Aid: An Analysis of whether International Development Assistance Targets Women and Gender."

Elizabeth Ransom and Carmen Bain. Gender and Society, January 20, 2011.

"A Future for Aid Data: Research towards a South-South Cooperation Data Categorization to complement on-going IATI Categorizations."

Michael Hubbard and Pranay Sinha. UK Department for International Development Research Brief Issue 1, 2011.

"Does Aid Buy Votes? How Electoral Strategies Shape the Distribution of Aid."

Ryan S. Jablonski. Presented at International Relations Retreat, University of California at San Diego, 2011.

"The UCDP-AidData codebook on Geo-referencing Foreign Aid, v. 1.1"

Michael Findley, Daniel Strandow, Daniel Nielson, and Josh Powell. UCDP Paper No. 4. .

"Transparency Squared: the Effects of Donor Transparency on Aid Recipients' Corruption Levels."

Zachary Christensen, Richard Nielsen, Daniel Nielsen, and Michael Tierney. Presented at Annual Meetings of the International Political Economy Society in Massachusetts, November 12-13, 2010.

"Fast-Start Adaptation Funding: Keeping Promises from Copenhagen."

David Ciplet, Achala Chandani, J. Timmons Roberts, Saleemul Huq. International Institute for Environment and Development Briefing, November 2010.

"Humanitarian Aid: Short Term Immediate Relief vs Long Term Rebuilding."

Geethanjali Selvaretnam, Kannika Thampanishvong, and David Ulph. Presented at 2011 Royal Economic Society Conference, October 15, 2010.

"Review of Progress in International and National Mutual Accountability and Transparency on Development Cooperation."

Matthew Martin. Background Paper for United Nations Development Cooperation Forum High-Level Symposium, October 6, 2010.

"Foreign Aid in Hard Times: The Political Economy of Aid Effort."

Ishita Ahmed, Christopher Marcoux, Brooke Russell, and Michael J. Tierney. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2-5, 2010.

"Overseas Economic Aid or Domestic Electoral Assistance: The Political Economy of Foreign Aid Voting in the U.S. Congress."

Ryan M. Powers, David A. Leblang, and Michael Tierney. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2-5, 2010.

"A Theory of North-South Climate Finance."

Johannes Urpelainen. Presented at the Political Economy Workshop, August 9, 2010.

"Governance of the Aid System and the Role of the EU."

Owen Barder, Mikaela Gavas, Simon Maxwell, and Deborah Johnson. Presented at Conference on

Development Cooperation in Times of Crisis and on Achieving the MDGs, June 9-10, 2010.

"The Domestic Preconditions for International Policy Diffusion: The Case of Environmental Ministries."

Michael Aklin and Johannes Urpelainen. Working Paper, July 19, 2010.

"Practical Approaches to the Aid Effectiveness Agenda."

Samuel Moon and Zachary Mills. Working Paper, July 2010.

"When Do Environmentally-Focused Aid Projects Achieve their Objectives? Evidence from

World Bank Post-Project Evaluations."

Mark T. Buntaine and Bradley C. Parks. Working Paper, May 12, 2010.

"Breaking it Down: The Determinants of Bilateral Aid Fragmentation."

Jordan Kyle and Elizabeth Sperber. Presented at the Third Annual Alexander Hamilton Center Graduate Student Conference on Political Economy, May 6, 2010.

"Can't Live With 'Em, Can't Live Without 'Em: Bilateral Foreign Development Aid in Post-Colonial Relationships."

Elizabeth Sperber. Presented for Mini-APSA at Columbia University, April 15, 2010.

"Exploring Spatial Dependence in Bi-and Multilateral Aid Giving Patterns."

Fabian Barthel. Presented at Aid Transparency and Development Finance Conference, Oxford University, March 22-25, 2010.

“We Don't Need No Education: The Effects of Education-Specific Foreign Aid on School Enrollment in Low-Income Countries."

Zachary Christensen, Dustin Homer, and Daniel Nielson. Presented at Aid Transparency and Development Finance Conference, Oxford University, March 22-25, 2010.

"Fishy Business: Exploring the Relationship between International Aid, Mangrove Deforestation, and Endangerment of Livelihoods in Coastal Ecuador."

Stuart Hamilton. Presented at Aid Transparency and Development Finance Conference, Oxford University, March 22-25, 2010.

"Aid and Corruption: Do Donors Use Development Assistance to Provide the 'Right' Incentives."

Alessia Isopi and Fabrizio Mattesini. Presented at Aid Transparency and Development Finance Conference, Oxford University, March 22-25, 2010.

"A Quality of Official Development Assistance Index."

Homi Kharas. Presented at Aid Transparency and Development Finance Conference, Oxford University, March 22-25, 2010.

"The Supply of Foreign Aid and Demand for Asylum."

David Leblang. Presented at Aid Transparency and Development Finance Conference, Oxford University, March 22-25, 2010.

"Explaining the Allocation of Foreign Aid for Biodiversity Conservation."

Daniel C. Miller, Arun Agrawal, and J. Timmons Roberts. Presented at Aid Transparency and Development Finance Conference, Oxford University, March 22-25, 2010.

"Does Aid Follow Need? Humanitarian Motives in Aid Allocation."

Rich Nielsen. Presented at Aid Transparency and Development Finance Conference, Oxford University, March 22-25, 2010.

"Trends in Official Climate Finance: Evidence from Human and Machine Coding."

Timmons Roberts. Presented at Aid Transparency and Development Finance Conference, Oxford University, March 22-25, 2010.

"China's Development Cooperation with Southeast Asia."

Margot Schüller, Magnus Brod, Daniel Neff, and Marco Bünte. Presented at Aid Transparency and Development Finance Conference, Oxford University, March 22-25, 2010.

"China’s Emergence within Southeast Asia’s Aid Architecture: New Kid on the Block?"

Margot Schüller, Magnus Brod, Daniel Neff, and Marco Bünte. Presented at Aid Transparency and Development Finance Conference, Oxford University, March 22-25, 2010.

"Can a Useful Aid Effectiveness Index be Developed Using the Paris Declaration Framework?"

Pranay Kumar Sinha. Presented at Aid Transparency and Development Finance Conference, Oxford University, March 22-25, 2010.

"Donor Political Influences on Foreign Aid Composition."

Dustin Tingley. Presented at Aid Transparency and Development Finance Conference, Oxford University, March 22-25, 2010.

"Buying Bretton Woods."

James Raymond Vreeland. Presented at Aid Transparency and Development Finance Conference, Oxford University, March 22-25, 2010.

"Fixing Failed Foreign Aid: Can Agency Practices Improve?"

Claudia R. Williamson. Presented at Aid Transparency and Development Finance Conference, Oxford University, March 22-25, 2010.

"Triage for Democracy: Selection Effects in Governance Aid."

Richard Nielsen and Daniel Nielson. Presentation of the Government Department, College of William and Mary, February 5, 2010.

"IOs as Norms Platforms: The World Bank's Influence on Environmental Lending at the Islamic Development Bank."

Daniel Nielson and Christopher O'Keefe. Presented at the Third Annual Conference on the Political Economy of International Organizations, January 28, 2010.

"Foreign Aid as Globalization: Does the Road to Aid Parallel Trade?"

Christopher O'Keefe and A. Bradley Potter. Working paper, January 21, 2010.

"Lending Democracy: How Governance Aid May Affect Freedom."

Richard Nielsen and Daniel Nielson. Presented at the College of William and Mary Political Science Research Seminar, Williamsburg, VA, January 5, 2010.

"Delivering Aid Differently."

Wolfgang Fengler and Homi Kharas, eds. Brookings Institution Press, 2010.

"The Challenge of Accountability for Development Agencies within Their Own Countries and Before Their Peers."

Martin Vielajus, Alan Hudson, Linnea Jonsson, and Daniel Neu. Presented at the AFD-DevCom Workshop, December 12-16, 2009.

"Evaluating the Success of Conservation Actions in Safeguarding Tropical Forest Biodiversity."

Thomas M. Brooks, S. Joseph Wright, and Douglas Sheil. Conservation Biology, December 2009.

"Counting the Cash: Elements of a Framework for the Measurement, Reporting and Verification of Climate Finance."

Remi Monchel, Hilary McMahon, and Kirsten Stasio. Working Paper, December 2009.

”Political ecology and climate conflict research."

Beniam Awash. Presented at the International Conference, KlimaCampus, Hamburg University, November 2009.

"Beyond Planning: Markets and Networks for Better Aid."

Owen Barder. Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 185, October 15, 2009.

"Broad Trends in Foreign Aid: Insights from PLAID 1.6."

Daniel L. Nielson, Ryan M. Powers, and Michael J. Tierney. Presented at Washington DC Data Vetting Workshop, October 2009.

"The Curse of Aid? Re-Examining the Impact of Aid on Regime Change."

Sarah Blodgett Bermeo. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 14, 2009.

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"Controlling Coalitions: Social Lending at the Multilateral Development Banks."

Mona M. Lyne, Daniel L. Nielson and Michael J. Tierney. The Review of International Organizations, September 2009.

"Principals and Interests: Common Agency and Multilateral Development Bank Lending."

Daniel L. Nielson and Michael J. Tierney. Presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Political Economy of International Organizations, September 2009.

"The Problem of Missing Data in the Econometrics of Foreign Aid."

Robert L. Hicks and Kurt E. Schnier. Working Paper, September 2009.

"International Aid Transparency Initiative."

Scoping paper for consultation, April 2009.

"Multiple Country Data Sources for Access to Finance."

Christoph Kneiding, Edward Al-Hussayni, and Ignacio Mas. CGAP, World Bank, February 1, 2009.

"Has Foreign Aid Been Greened?"

J. Timmons Roberts, Bradley C. Parks, Michael J. Tierney, and Robert L. Hicks. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, January-February 2009.

"Environmental Aid and Economic Development in the Third World."

B. Mak Arvin, Zafar Kayani, and Marisa A. Scigliano. International Journal of Applied Econometrics and Quantitative Studies, 2009.

"Review of 'Greening Aid? Understanding the Environmental Impact of Development Assistance."

Mak Arvin. Journal of Development Studies, November 2008.

"Aiding Inequality: The Effect of Foreign Aid on Income Inequality."

Timothy Layton and Daniel Nielson. Working Paper, November 2008.

"Oxford Energy and Environment Comment."

J. Timmons Roberts, Kara Starr, Thomas Jones, and Dinah Abdel-Fattah. Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, November 2008.

"Healthy Aid? Preliminary Results on Health Aid Effectiveness."

Nathaniel Gebhard, Katherine Kitterman, Ashley Anne Mitchell, Daniel Nielson, and Sven Wilson. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 28-31, 2008.

"Collective Delegation and World Bank Aid Allocation."

Christopher O'Keefe and A. Bradley Potter. Presented at the International Studies Association Meetings, March 26-29, 2008.

"Aid and State Building."

Miles Kahler. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 30-September 2, 2007.

"Faith and Foreign Aid: The Electoral Connection and European Aid Allocation."

Joshua Loud and Christopher O'Keefe. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 25, 2007.

"Fueling Injustice: Globalization, the Ecological Debt, and Confronting Responsibility for Climate Change."

J. Timmons Roberts and Bradley Parks. Globalizations, June 2007.

"If You Build It, Will They Come? Foreign Aid's Effect on Foreign Direct Investment."

Steve Kapfer, Rich Nielsen, and Daniel Nielson. Presented at the 65th Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 14, 2007.

"Does Adjustment Lending Work? Policy Reforms in the Wake of Program Lending."

Joshua Loud and Daniel L. Nielson. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 6, 2007.

"Strategic Aid: International Political Economy, Public Choice, and Donor Interest at Multilateral Development Banks."

Christopher O'Keefe and A. Bradley Potter. Presented at the International Studies Association meetings, February 28-March 3, 2007.

"Can Foreign Aid Give an Incentive for Good Governance Reform? The Case of the Millennium Challenge Corporation in Jordan."

Robert Reyes Lindicho. Honors Thesis, Spring 2007.

"The New Universe of Green Finance: From Self-Regulation to Multi-Polar Governance."

Oren Perez. Bar Ilan University Pub Law Working Paper No. 07-3, 2007.

"Bridging the Rationalist-Constructivist Divide: Re-engineering the Culture of the World Bank."

Daniel Nielson, Michael J. Tierney, and Catherine Weaver. Journal of International Relations and Development, June 2006.

"The Impact of International Organizations on the Environment: An Empirical Analysis."

Axel Dreher and Magdalena Ramada-Sarasola. Swiss Institute for Business Cycle Research (KOF) Working Paper No. 131 , February 2006.

"Explaining the Allocation of Bilateral and Multilateral Environmental Aid to Developing Countries."

Robert L. Hicks, Bradley C. Parks, and Michael J. Tierney. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, July 24-27, 2005.

"Theory, Data, and Hypothesis Testing: World Bank Environmental Reform Redux."

Daniel L. Nielson and Michael J. Tierney. International Organization, 2005.

"Who Ratifies Environmental Treaties and Why? Institutionalism, Structuralism, and Participation by 192 Nations in 22 Treaties."

J. Timmons Roberts, Bradley C. Parks and Alexis A.Vásquez. Global Environmental Politics, August 2004.

"Delegation to International Organizations: Agency Theory and World Bank Environmental Reform."

Daniel Nielson and Michael Tierney. International Organization, Spring 2003.

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