Academic Journals

Chinese health funding in Africa: The untold story

Carrie B. Dolan,Ammar A. Malik, Sheng Zhang, Wenhui Mao, Kaci Kennedy McDade, Eli Svoboda, Julius N. Odhiambo

2023-06-28

Debt Distress on China’s Belt and Road

AEA Papers & Proceedings

Sebastian Horn, Bradley C. Parks, Carmen M. Reinhart, Christoph Trebesch

2023-05-30

How China Lends: A Rare Look into 100 Debt Contracts with Foreign Governments

Economic Policy

Anna Gelpern, Sebastian Horn, Scott Morris, Brad Parks, Christoph Trebesch

2022-11-15

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData report, How China Lends.

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Grabbed trust? The impact of large-scale land acquisitions on social trust in Africa

Tim Wegenast, Cécile Richetta, Mario Krauser, Alexander Leibik

2022-11-01

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

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The Journal of Development Studies

Who Gets the Goodies? Overlapping Interests and the Geography of Aid for Trade Allocation in Bangladesh

Samuel Brazys, Minhaj Mahmud, Arya Pillai

2022-10-13

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

Journal of Conflict Resolution

Can Western Donors Constrain Repressive Governments? Evidence from Debt Relief Negotiations in Africa

Brett L. Carter

2022-09-19

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

The economic efficiency of aid targeting

Ariel BenYishay, Matthew DiLorenzo, Carrie Dolan

2022-08-13

China and the World Bank—How contrasting development approaches affect the stability of African states

Kai Gehring, Lennart Kaplan, Melvin H. L. Wong

2022-07-18

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

Does decentralization encourage pro-poor targeting? Evidence from Kenya’s constituencies development fund

J. Andrew Harris, Daniel N. Posner

2022-07-01

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

Top lights: Bright cities and their contribution to economic development

Richard Bluhm, Melanie Krause

2022-05-14

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

American Journal of Political Science

When Does Transparency Improve Institutional Performance? Evidence from 20,000 Projects in 183 Countries

Dan Honig, Ranjit Lall, Bradley C. Parks

2022-02-01

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

Does Aid for Malaria Increase with Exposure to Malaria Risk? Evidence from Mining Sites in the D.R.Congo

Samuel Lordemus

2022-01-27

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Democracy and Aid Donorship

Angelika J. Budjan, Andreas Fuchs

2021-11-01

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

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Development Policy Review

Testing multi-stakeholder dialogue for better local governance in Niger: An experiment. Can we talk our way out of development problems?

Ariel BenYishay, Lisa Mueller, Katherine Nolan, Philip Roessler

2021-10-12

British Journal of Political Science

Foreign Aid and Soft Power: Great Power Competition in Africa in the Early Twenty-first Century

Robert A. Blair, Robert Marty, Philip Roessler

2021-07-05

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

Journal of Comparative Economics

The effects of trade, aid, and investment on China's image in Latin America

Vera Z. Eichenauer, Andreas Fuchs, Lutz Brückner

2021-06-01

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

Why Does Aid Not Target the Poorest?

Ryan C. Briggs

2021-05-15

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Aid, China, and Growth: Evidence from a New Global Development Finance Dataset

Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Bradley Parks, Austin Strange, Michael J. Tierney

2021-05-01

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

Foreign Aid and State Legitimacy

World Politics

Robert A. Blair, Philip Roessler

2021-03-16

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

Linking Local Infrastructure Development and Deforestation: Evidence from Satellite and Administrative Data

Christian Baehr, Ariel BenYishay, Bradley Parks

2021-02-12

The effects of foreign aid on rebel governance: Evidence from a large-scale US aid program in Syria

Economics & Politics

Allison Carnegie, Kimberly Howe, Adam Lichtenheld, Dipali Mukhopadhyay

2021-01-29

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

Studies in Comparative International Development

Aid Management, Trust, and Development Policy Influence: New Evidence from a Survey of Public Sector Officials in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries

Takaaki Masaki, Bradley C. Parks, Jörg Faust, Stefan Leiderer, Matthew D. DiLorenzo

2021-01-07

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

Is Favoritism a Threat to Chinese Aid Effectiveness? A Subnational Analysis of Chinese Development Projects

Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Roland Hodler, Bradley C. Parks, Paul A. Raschky, Michael J. Tierney

2021-01-06

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

The Journal of Development Studies

Evaluating Water- and Health-related Development Projects: A Cross-project and Micro-based Approach

Christina Greßer, David Stadelmann

2020-12-15

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

Distortions in aid allocation of United Nations flash appeals: Evidence from the 2015 Nepal earthquake

Vera Z. Eichenauer, Andreas Fuchs, Sven Kunze, Eric Strobl

2020-12-01

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

Delegation of implementation in project aid

Silvia Marchesi, Tania Masi

2020-11-21

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

Childhood health and the changing distribution of foreign aid: Evidence from Nigeria's transition to lower-middle-income status

Carrie B. Dolan, McKinley Saunders, Ariel BenYishay

2020-11-04

Sunshine or Curse? Foreign Direct Investment, the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, and Individual Corruption Experiences in Africa

Samuel Brazys, Andreas Kotsadam

2020-10-08

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

When does transparency improve public services? Street‐level discretion, information, and targeting

Public Administration

Monika Bauhr, Ruth Carlitz

2020-09-14

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

International Organization

Chinese Aid and Local Ethnic Identification

Ann-Sofie Isaksson

2020-09-07

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

How information about foreign aid affects public spending decisions: Evidence from a field experiment in Malawi

Brigitte Seim, Ryan Jablonski, Johan Ahlbäck

2020-09-01

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

Does private aid follow the flag? An empirical analysis of humanitarian assistance

The World Economy

Andreas Fuchs, Hannes Öhler

2020-08-18

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

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Aid curse with Chinese characteristics? Chinese development flows and economic reforms

Samuel Brazys, Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati

2020-08-02

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

Journal of Applied Econometrics

Fueling conflict? (De)escalation and bilateral aid

Richard Bluhm, Martin Gassebner, Sarah Langlotz, Paul Schaudt

2020-07-30

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

A convolutional neural network approach to predict non‐permissive environments from moderate‐resolution imagery

Seth Goodman, Ariel BenYishay, Daniel Runfola

2020-07-13

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

The Challenges of Using Citizen Reporting to Improve Public Services: A Field Experiment on Solid Waste Services in Uganda

Mark T Buntaine, Patrick Hunnicutt, Polycarp Komakech

2020-07-01

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

Impacts of a large-scale titling initiative on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Nature Sustainability

Benedict Probst, Ariel BenYishay, Andreas Kontoleon, Tiago N. P. dos Reis

2020-05-18

geoBoundaries: A global database of political administrative boundaries

Daniel Runfola, Austin Anderson, Heather Baier, Matt Crittenden, Elizabeth Dowker, Sydney Fuhrig, Seth Goodman, Grace Grimsley, Rachel Layko, Graham Melville, Maddy Mulder, Rachel Oberman, Joshua Panganiban, Andrew Peck, Leigh Seitz, Sylvia Shea, Hannah Slevin, Rebecca Youngerman, Lauren Hobbs

2020-04-24

Pulling the purse strings: Are there sectoral differences in political preferencing of Chinese aid to Africa?

Carrie B. Dolan, Kaci Kennedy McDade

2020-04-22

Exploring the Socioeconomic Co-benefits of Global Environment Facility Projects in Uganda Using a Quasi-Experimental Geospatial Interpolation (QGI) Approach co-benefits, sustainable development, causal methods, geospatial impact evaluation, quasi-experimental design, interpolation, GIS, remote sensing Journal Article Sustainability Daniel Runfola, Geeta Batra, Anupam Anand, Audrey Way, Seth Goodman

Exploring the Socioeconomic Co-benefits of Global Environment Facility Projects in Uganda Using a Quasi-Experimental Geospatial Interpolation (QGI) Approach

Sustainability

Daniel Runfola, Geeta Batra, Anupam Anand, Audrey Way, Seth Goodman

2020-04-16

Mining, Rural Livelihoods and Food Security: A Disaggregated Analysis of Sub- Saharan Africa

Tim Wegenast, Jule Beck

2020-03-01

Note: A version of this article was previously published as AidData Working Paper.

Chinese Journal of International Politics

Rising Powers and Grassroots Image Management: Confucius Institutes and China in the Media

Samuel Brazys, Alexander Dukalskis

2019-11-13

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

Evidence on Wealth-Improving Effects of Forest Concessions in Liberia

Suhyun Jung, Chuan Liao, Arun Agrawal, and Daniel G. Brown

2019-09-01

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

African leaders and the geography of China's foreign assistance

Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Roland Hodler, Bradley C. Parks, Paul A. Raschky, Michael J. Tierney

2019-04-23

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

Health service delivery and political trust in Nigeria

SSM - Population Health

Adanna Chukwuma, Thomas J. Bossert, Kevin Croke

2019-04-01

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

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The impact of an insecticide treated bednet campaign on all-cause child mortality: A geospatial impact evaluation from the Democratic Republic of Congo

Carrie Dolan, Ariel BenYishay, Karen Grépin, Jeffery Tanner, April Kimmel, David Wheeler, Gordon McCord

2019-02-22

When do performance assessments influence policy behavior? Micro-evidence from the 2014 Reform Efforts Survey

Takaaki Masaki Jr, Bradley C. Parks

2019-01-02

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

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Computers and Geosciences

GeoQuery: Integrating HPC systems and public web-based geospatial data tools

Seth Goodman, Ariel BenYishay, Zhonghui Lv, Daniel Runfola

2019-01-01

Health aid projects have both expanded and constrained the capacity of health facilities to deliver malaria services to under-five children in Malawi

BMJ Global Health

Carrie Dolan

2018-12-01

Assessing the Causal Impact of Chinese Aid on Vegetative Land Cover in Burundi and Rwanda Under Conditions of Spatial Imprecision

Development Engineering

Robert Marty, Seth Goodman, Michael Le Few, Carrie Dolan, Ariel BenYishay, Daniel Runfola

2018-11-23

Foreign aid and growth: A Sp P-VAR analysis using satellite sub-national data for Uganda.

Andrea Civellia, Andrew Horowitz, Arilton Teixeira

2018-09-01

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

The Journal of Environment & Development

The Local Impacts of World Bank Development Projects Near Sites of Conservation Significance

Graeme Buchanan, Bradley Parks, Paul Donald, Brian O’Donnell, Daniel Runfola, John Swaddle, Łukasz Tracewski, Stuart Butchart

2018-07-13

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

Natural resource sector FDI, government policy, and economic growth: Quasi-experimental evidence from Liberia

Jonas B. Bunte, Harsh Desai, Kanio Gbala, Bradley C. Parks, Daniel Miller Runfola

2018-03-20

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

Bypass Aid and Unrest in Autocracies

Matthew DiLorenzo

2018-03-13

Journal of Public Economics

Chinese aid and local corruption

Ann-Sofie Isaksson, Andreas Kotsadam

2018-03-01

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

Development aid and infant mortality. Micro-level evidence from Nigeria

Andreas Kotsadam, Gudrun Østby, Siri Aas Rustad, Andreas Forø Tollefsen, Henrik Urdal

2018-02-03

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

The Political Economy of Aid Allocation in Africa: Evidence from Zambia

African Studies Review

Takaaki Masaki

2018-02-01

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

Apples and Dragon Fruits: The Determinants of Aid and Other Forms of State Financing from China to Africa

Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Bradley C Parks, Austin M Strange, Michael J Tierney

2018-02-01

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases

Quantifying Heterogeneous Causal Treatment Effects in World Bank Development Finance Projects

Jianing Zhao, Daniel M. Runfola, Peter Kemper

2017-12-30

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

Indigenous land rights and deforestation: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon

Ariel BenYishay, Silke Heuser, Daniel Runfola, Rachel Trichler

2017-11-01

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

Foreign Aid, Foreign Policy, and Domestic Government Legitimacy: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh

The Journal of Politics

Simone Dietrich, Minhaj Mahmud, Matthew S. Winters

2017-10-27

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

International Organization

Who Controls Foreign Aid? Elite versus Public Perceptions of Donor Influence in Aid-Dependent Uganda

Michael G. Findley, Adam S. Harris, Helen V. Milner, Daniel L. Nielson

2017-08-17

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

Aiming at the Wrong Targets: The Domestic Consequences of International Efforts to Build Institutions

Mark T. Buntaine, Bradley C. Parks, Benjamin P. Buch

2017-06-12

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

Tracking Underreported Financial Flows: China’s Development Finance and the Aid–Conflict Nexus Revisited

Austin M. Strange, Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Bradley C. Parks, Michael J. Tierney

2017-05-01

Note: A version of this article was previously published as a working paper.

A Top-Down Approach to Estimating Spatially Heterogeneous Impacts of Development Aid on Vegetative Carbon Sequestration

Sustainability

Daniel Runfola, Ariel BenYishay, Jeffery Tanner, Graeme Buchanan, Jyoteshwar Nagol, Matthias Leu, Seth Goodman, Rachel Trichler, Robert Marty

2017-03-09

International organizations and development finance: Introduction to the special issue

Daniel L. Nielson, Bradley C. Parks, Michael J. Tierney

2017-03-01

Bad neighbors? How co-located Chinese and World Bank development projects impact local corruption in Tanzania

Samuel Brazys, Johan A. Elkink, Gina Kelly

2017-03-01

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

Review of International Studies

Canary in the coal mine? China, the UNGA, and the changing world order

Samuel Brazys, Alexander Dukalskis

2017-02-20

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Satellite-based assessment of yield variation and its determinants in smallholder African systems

Marshall Burke, David Lobell

2017-01-12

Taking the health aid debate to the subnational level: the impact and allocation of foreign health aid in Malawi

BMJ Global Health

Robert Marty, Carrie B Dolan, Matthias Leu, Daniel Runfola

2017-01-11

Disability and the Global South

No One Left Behind: A review of social protection and disability at the World Bank

Valerie L. Karr, Ashley van Edema, Jacob Sims, Callie Brusegaard

2017-01-01

Locating foreign aid commitments in response to political violence

Public Choice

Paul Bezerra, Alex Braithwaite

2016-12-01

Knowledge Management for Development Journal

No one left behind: a review of disability inclusive development efforts at the World Bank

Valerie L. Karr, Jacob Sims, Callie Brusegaard, Ashley Coates

2016-12-01

Aid Modalities Matter: The Impact of Different World Bank and IMF Programs on Democratization in Developing Countries

Kassandra Birchler, Sophia Limpach, Katharina Michaelowa

2016-08-28

Asian Journal of Comparative Politics

Aid and democracy promotion in Asia

Bann Seng Tan

2016-06-01

The Journal of Development Studies

'Ground-Truthing' Chinese Development Finance in Africa: Field Evidence from South Africa and Uganda

Edwin Muchapondwa, Daniel Nielson, Bradley C. Parks, Austin M. Strange, Michael J. Tierney

2016-05-02

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

International Journal of Educational Development

Making aid work for education in developing countries: An analysis of aid effectiveness for primary education coverage and quality

Kassandra Birchler, Katharina Michaelowa

2016-05-01

Coups d'État and Foreign Aid

Takaaki Masaki

2016-04-01

Rogue aid? An empirical analysis of China's aid allocation

Axel Dreher and Andreas Fuchs

2016-03-22

Citizen preferences and public goods: comparing preferences for foreign aid and government programs in Uganda

Helen V. Milner, Daniel L. Nielson, Michael G. Findley

2016-02-01

Migration and Development

Migration, climate, and international aid: examining evidence of satellite, aid, and micro-census data

Daniel Miller Runfola, Ashley Napier

2016-01-01

Environmental Research Letters

Assessing the Impact of International Conservation Aid on Deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa

Matthew Bare, Craig Kauffman, Daniel C. Miller

2015-12-01

Food and Nutrition Bulletin

Building a Stronger System for Tracking Nutrition Sensitive Spending

Scott B. Ickes, Rachel B. Trichler, Bradley C. Parks

2015-10-25

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

Global Environmental Change

Titling community land to prevent deforestation: An evaluation of a best-case program in Morona-Santiago, Ecuador

Mark T. Buntaine, Stuart E. Hamilton, Marco Millones

2015-05-15

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Aid and Growth at the Regional Level

Axel Dreher, Steffen Lohmann

2015-01-01

Note: A version of this article was previously published as an AidData Working Paper.

The Journal of Human Resources

All-Cause Mortality Reductions from Measles Catchup Campaigns in Africa

Ariel BenYishay, Keith Kranker

2015-01-01

Foreign Aid Allocation Tactics and Democratic Change in Africa

The Journal of Politics

Simone Dietrich, Joseph Wright

2015-01-01

China's Role as a Global Health Donor in Africa: What Can We Learn from Studying Under Reported Resource Flows?

Globalization and Health

Karen A. Grepin, Victoria Y. Fan, Gordon C. Shen, Lucy Chen

2014-12-01

A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets Journal Article Science Derek P. Tittensor, Matt Walpole, Samantha L. L. Hill, Daniel G. Boyce, Gregory L. Britten, Neil D. Burgess, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Paul W. Leadley, Eugenie C. Regan, Rob Alkemade, Roswitha Baumung, CŽline Bellard, Lex Bouwman, Nadine J. Bowles-Newark, Anna M. Chenery, William W. L. Cheung, Villy Christensen, H. David Cooper, Annabel R. Crowther, Matthew J. R. Dixon, Alessandro Galli, ValŽrie Gaveau, Richard D. Gregory, Nicolas L. Gutierrez, Tim L. Hirsch, Robert Hšft, Stephanie R. Januchowski-Hartley, Marion Karmann, Cornelia B. Krug, Fiona J. Leverington, Jonathan Loh, Rik Kutsch Lojenga, Kelly Malsch, Alexandra Marques, David H. W. Morgan, Peter J. Mumby, Tim Newbold, Kieran Noonan-Mooney, Shyama N. Pagad, Bradley C. Parks, Henrique M. Pereira, Tim Robertson, Carlo Rondinini, Luca Santini, Jšrn P. W. Scharlemann, Stefan Schindler, U. Rashid Sumaila, Louise S.L. Teh, Jennifer van Kolck, Piero Visconti, Yimin Ye

A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets

Science

Derek P. Tittensor, Matt Walpole, Samantha L. L. Hill, Daniel G. Boyce, Gregory L. Britten, Neil D. Burgess, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Paul W. Leadley, Eugenie C. Regan, Rob Alkemade, Roswitha Baumung, CŽline Bellard, Lex Bouwman, Nadine J. Bowles-Newark, Anna M. Chenery, William W. L. Cheung, Villy Christensen, H. David Cooper, Annabel R. Crowther, Matthew J. R. Dixon, Alessandro Galli, ValŽrie Gaveau, Richard D. Gregory, Nicolas L. Gutierrez, Tim L. Hirsch, Robert Hšft, Stephanie R. Januchowski-Hartley, Marion Karmann, Cornelia B. Krug, Fiona J. Leverington, Jonathan Loh, Rik Kutsch Lojenga, Kelly Malsch, Alexandra Marques, David H. W. Morgan, Peter J. Mumby, Tim Newbold, Kieran Noonan-Mooney, Shyama N. Pagad, Bradley C. Parks, Henrique M. Pereira, Tim Robertson, Carlo Rondinini, Luca Santini, Jšrn P. W. Scharlemann, Stefan Schindler, U. Rashid Sumaila, Louise S.L. Teh, Jennifer van Kolck, Piero Visconti, Yimin Ye

2014-10-01