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Landmine Clearance and Economic Development: Evidence from Nighttime Lights, Multispectral Satellite Imagery, and Conflict Events in Afghanistan
Landmine Clearance and Economic Development: Evidence from Nighttime Lights, Multispectral Satellite Imagery, and Conflict Events in Afghanistan

Working Paper

Does Irrigation Strengthen Climate Resilience? A Geospatial Impact Evaluation of Interventions in Mali
Does Irrigation Strengthen Climate Resilience? A Geospatial Impact Evaluation of Interventions in Mali

Impact Evaluations

Impact Evaluation

Does Irrigation Strengthen Climate Resilience? A Geospatial Impact Evaluation of Interventions in Mali

German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval)

Ariel BenYishay, Seth Goodman, Rachel Sayers, Kunwar Singh, Madeleine Walker, Mascha Rauschenbach, Martin Noltze

2023-06-13

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125

Landmine Clearance and Economic Development: Evidence from Nighttime Lights, Multispectral Satellite Imagery, and Conflict Events in Afghanistan

Christian Baehr, Ariel BenYishay, Rachel Sayers, Kunwar Singh, Madeleine Walker

2023-05-12

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123

Break it down: A disaggregated analysis of the effects of aid on stunting

Dick Durevall, Ann-Sofie Isaksson

2023-02-28

Working Paper
117

Can Aid Buy Foreign Public Support? Evidence from Chinese Development Finance

Lukas Wellner, Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Bradley C. Parks, Austin Strange

2022-04-05

Working Paper
116

What politicians don’t know can hurt you: The effects of information on politicians’ spending decisions

Ryan Jablonski, Brigitte Seim

2022-03-31

Working Paper
114

Environmental Impacts of Chinese Government-Funded Infrastructure Projects: Evidence from Road Building in Cambodia

Christian Baehr, Ariel BenYishay, and Brad Parks

2022-02-28

Journal Article

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

Development Policy Review

Ariel BenYishay, Lisa Mueller, Katherine Nolan, Philip Roessler

2021-10-12

Working Paper
111

Aid and institutions: Local effects of World Bank aid on perceived institutional quality in Africa

Ann-Sofie Isaksson, Dick Durevall

2021-09-16

Working Paper
107

Chinese Aid and Local Employment in Africa

Shiqi Guo, Haicheng Jiang

2021-06-02

Journal Article

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

Journal of Comparative Economics

Vera Z. Eichenauer, Andreas Fuchs, Lutz Brückner

2021-06-01

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

Journal Article

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

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

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.

Working Paper
105

Chinese Development Aid and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Tanzania

Abraham Lartey

2021-02-26

Working Paper
104

Project Aid and Firm Performance

Silvia Marchesi, Tania Masi, Saumik Paul

2021-02-22

Journal Article

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.

Journal Article

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

The Journal of Development Studies

Christina Greßer, David Stadelmann

2020-12-15

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

Journal Article

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

PLOS One

Carrie B. Dolan, McKinley Saunders, Ariel BenYishay

2020-11-04

Working Paper
103

Connective Financing: Chinese Infrastructure Projects and the Diffusion of Economic Activity in Developing Countries

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

2020-08-19

Note: This working paper was first published on September 11, 2018. That version is archived here: https://www.aiddata.org/publications/connective-finance-chinese-infrastructure-projects

Working Paper
102

Land Deals and Social Fabrics: The Impact of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions on Social Trust in sub-Saharan Africa

Alexander Leibik, Tim Wegenast

2020-08-05

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in World Development.

Journal Article

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.

Working Paper
101

How Information about Foreign Aid Affects Public Spending Decisions: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Malawi

Brigitte Seim, Ryan Jablonski, Johan Ahlbäck

2020-07-20

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in the Journal of Development Economics.

Journal Article

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

Seth Goodman, Ariel BenYishay, Daniel Runfola

2020-07-13

Working Paper
98

Evaluating water- and health-related development projects: A cross-project and microbased approach

Christina Greßer, David Stadelmann

2020-07-09

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in the The Journal of Development Studies.

Working Paper
97

Chinese Aid and Health at the Country and Local Level

John Cruzatti, Axel Dreher, Johannes Matzat

2020-05-28

Working Paper
96

A micro-based approach to evaluate the effect of water supply on health in Uganda

Raymond Frempong, Lucas Kitzmüller, David Stadelmann

2020-05-28

Working Paper
95

Does Foreign Aid Raise Awareness of Corruption? Evidence from Chinese Aid in 30 African States

Sujin Cha

2020-05-28

Working Paper
94

Impact of Development Aid on Infant Mortality: Micro-level Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire

Didier Wayoro, Léonce Ndikumana

2020-05-28

Journal Article

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

Journal Article

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

Working Paper
93

Comparative Effects of Foreign Direct Investment from China and Other Sources on Africa’s Economic Growth

Marvelous Ngundu, Nicholas Ngepah

2020-01-27

Working Paper
92

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

Samuel Brazys, Minhaj Mahmud, Arya Pillai

2020-01-27

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in the The Journal of Development Studies.

Working Paper
91

Target at the Right Level: Aid, Spillovers and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Firat Demir, Yi Duan

2020-01-27

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89

The Lure of Technocracy? Chinese Aid and Local Preferences for Development Leadership in Africa

Zhenqian Huang, Xun Cao

2019-10-15

Working Paper
88

Harnessing the Benefits of Transparency: Street-level Discretion, Targetability, and Local Public Service Delivery

Monika Bauhr, Ruth Carlitz

2019-10-05

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in Public Administration.

Impact Evaluation

Long-term Impact Evaluation of the Malawi Wellness and Agriculture for Life Advancement Program

Ariel BenYishay, Kristen Velyvis, Katherine Nolan, Lila Kumar Khatiwada, Carrie Dolan, Danice Brown Guzman, Tom Purekal, Arif Mamun, Sara Wilf

2019-10-01

Working Paper
87

China and the World Bank: How Contrasting Development Approaches Affect the Stability of African States

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

2019-09-17

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in the Journal of Development Economics.

Working Paper
83

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

2019-07-15

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in World Development.

Working Paper
81

Is Sunshine the Best Disinfectant? Foreign Direct Investment, the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, and Local Corruption

Samuel Brazys, Andreas Kotsadam

2019-06-24

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in International Studies Quarterly.

Impact Evaluation

Building on a Foundation Stone: The Long-Term Impacts of a Local Infrastructure and Governance Program in Cambodia

Ariel BenYishay, Brad Parks, Rachel Trichler, Christian Baehr, Daniel Aboagye, Punwath Prum

2019-06-18

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80

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

Tim Wegenast, Jule Beck

2019-06-13

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in World Development.

Working Paper
79

Chinese aid and local ethnic identification

Ann-Sofie Isaksson

2019-06-05

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in International Organization.

Working Paper
77

The Effects of Foreign Aid on Rebel Governance: Evidence from a Large-Scale U.S. Aid Program in Syria

Allison Carnegie, Kimberly Howe, Adam Lichtenheld, Dipali Mukhopadhyay

2019-05-30

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in Economics & Politics.

Working Paper
76

Evidence on Wealth-Improving Effects of Forest Concessions in Liberia

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

2019-05-30

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

Working Paper
73

Closing the Broken Feedback Loop: Can Responsive Aid Strengthen State Legitimacy?

Bradley C. Parks, Matthew DiLorenzo, Daniel Aboagye

2019-04-30

Working Paper
71

Distortions in Aid Allocation of United Nations Flash Appeals: Evidence from the 2015 Nepal Earthquake

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

2019-04-30

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in World Development.

Journal Article

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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Working Paper
70

Aid and Conflict at the Sub-National Level: Evidence from World Bank and Chinese Development Projects in Africa

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

2019-03-08

Note: a revised version of this paper has been published as a new AidData Working Paper, China and the World Bank: How Contrasting Development Approaches Affect the Stability of African States.

Journal Article

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

PLOS One

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

2019-02-22

Impact Evaluation

Parceling out prosperity? An impact evaluation of natural resource sector investments in Liberia

Brad Parks, Jonas Bunte, Harsh Desai, Kanio Gbala, and Daniel Miller Runfola

2019-02-19

Working Paper
69

Grassroots Image Management: Confucius Institutes and Media Perceptions of China

Samuel Brazys, Alexander Dukalskis

2019-01-10

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in the Chinese Journal of International Politics.

Working Paper
66

Priming the Pump: Does Aid Pave the Way for Investment?

Samuel Brazys

2018-12-10

Impact Evaluation

Evaluation of the Infrastructure Needs Program II

Ariel BenYishay, Rachel Trichler, Dan Runfola, Seth Goodman

2018-10-08

Impact Evaluation

Evaluation of the Local Governance and Infrastructure Program

Pablo Beramendi, Soomin Oh, Erik Wibbels

2018-10-08

Working Paper
64

Connective Financing: Chinese Infrastructure Projects and the Diffusion of Economic Activity in Developing Countries

Richard Bluhm, Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Bradley Parks, Austin Strange, Michael Tierney

2018-09-11

Note: an updated version of this paper has been published as a new AidData Working Paper.

Working Paper
62

Honor among Chiefs: An Experiment on Monitoring and Diversion Among Traditional Leaders in Malawi

Elizabeth Carlson, Brigitte Seim

2018-08-29

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in The Journal of Development Studies.

Working Paper
60

Implementation Level in World Bank Projects: National vs. Local Allocation of Power

Silvia Marchesi, Tania Masi

2018-07-24

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in The Review of International Organizations.

Working Paper
59

The Effects of Chinese Aid on State Legitimacy in Africa: Cross-National and Sub-National Evidence from Surveys, Survey Experiments, and Behavioral Games

Robert A. Blair, Philip Roessler

2018-07-23

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in the World Politics.

Working Paper
57

Secondary School Electrification in Western Kenya

Susanna Berkouwer, Kenneth Lee, Michael Walker

2018-06-29

Working Paper
56

Bypass Aid and Perceptions of Local Government Performance and Legitimacy

Kate Baldwin, Matthew S. Winters

2018-06-28

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in Studies in Comparative International Development.

Working Paper
55

Foreign Aid and Subnational Development: A Grid Cell Analysis

Jürgen Bitzer, Erkan Gören

2018-06-27

Working Paper
54

The Effects of Trade, Aid, and Investment on China's Image in Developing Countries

Vera Z. Eichenauer, Andreas Fuchs, Lutz Brückner

2018-06-26

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in the Journal of Comparative Economics.

Working Paper
53

The Donor Footprint and Gender Gaps

Maria Perrotta Berlin, Evelina Bonnier, Anders Olofsgård

2018-06-25

Working Paper
52

Aid Curse with Chinese Characteristics? Chinese Development Flows and Economic Reforms

Samuel Brazys, Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati

2018-05-25

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in Public Choice.

Working Paper
51

The Impact of Health Service Delivery on Political Support: Evidence from the Nigerian Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment Programme

Adanna Chukwama, Thomas J. Bossert

2018-05-24

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in SSM - Population Health.

Working Paper
50

Chinese Development Assistance and Household Welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bruno Martorano, Laura Metzger, Marco Sanfilippo

2018-05-23

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in World Development.

Working Paper
49

Geostatistical Tools to Map the Interaction between Development Aid and Indices of Need

Claudio Bosco, Natalia Tejedor-Garavito, Daniele de Rigo, Andrew J. Tatem, Carla Pezzulo, Richard Wood, Heather Chamberlain, Tom Bird

2018-05-18

Journal Article

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

World Development

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.

Journal Article

Chinese aid and local corruption

Journal of Public Economics

Ann-Sofie Isaksson, Andreas Kotsadam

2018-03-01

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

Working Paper
48

Breaking the Clientelistic Voting Equilibrium: The Joint Importance of Salience and Coordination

Claire Adida, Jessica Gottlieb, Eric Kramon, Gweneth McClendon

2017-11-30

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in Comparative Political Studies.

Working Paper
46

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

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

2017-10-10

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.

Working Paper
45

How Transparency Affects Distributional Politics: A Field Experiment among Elected Incumbents in Malawi

Ryan Jablonski, Brigitte Seim

2017-10-01

Working Paper
44

A Primer on Geospatial Impact Evaluation Methods, Tools, and Applications

Ariel BenYishay, Daniel Runfola, Rachel Trichler, Carrie Dolan, Seth Goodman, Bradley Parks, Jeffery Tanner, Silke Heuser, Geeta Batra, Anupam Anand

2017-09-01

Working Paper
42

Aid and Growth in Malawi

Daniel Chris Khomba, Alex Trew

2017-07-01

Working Paper
41

Escaping the Valley of Disengagement: Two Field Experiments on Motivating Citizens to Monitor Public Goods

Mark T. Buntaine, Daniel L. Nielson, Jacob T. Skaggs

2017-06-01

Update: Revised versions of this paper has been published in the British Journal of Political Science and the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.

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Working Paper
39

Development Aid and Infant Mortality

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

2017-05-01

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in World Development. 

Working Paper
38

geoSIMEX: A Generalized Approach To Modeling Spatial Imprecision

Daniel Runfola, Robert Marty, Seth Goodman, Michael Lefew, Ariel BenYishay

2017-04-01

Working Paper
36

Foreign Aid and Growth at the Subnational Level

Andrea Civelli, Andrew Horowitz, Arilton Teixeira

2017-03-02

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in the Journal of Development Economics.

Working Paper
34

Natural Resource Sector FDI and Growth in Post-Conflict Settings: Subnational Evidence from Liberia

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

2017-02-01

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in World Development.

Working Paper
33

Chinese Aid and Local Corruption

Ann-Sofie Isaksson, Andreas Kotsadam

2016-12-02

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in the Journal of Public Economics.

Working Paper
32

Forest Cover Impacts of Chinese Development Projects in Ecologically Sensitive Areas

Ariel BenYishay, Bradley Parks, Daniel Runfola, Rachel Trichler

2016-12-01

Impact Evaluation

Geospatial Impact Evaluation of the Demarcation of Indian Territories Project (PPTAL) on Conflict and Deforestation

Ariel BenYishay, Silke Heuser, Daniel Runfola, Rachel Trichler

2016-11-16

Working Paper
31

Fueling Conflict? (De)Escalation and Bilateral Aid

Richard Bluhm, Martin Gassebner, Sarah Langlotz, Paul Schaudt

2016-11-02

Working Paper
27

Tangible Information and Citizen Empowerment: Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia

Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Jordan Kyle, Benjamin A. Olken, Sudarno Sumarto

2016-06-01

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in the Journal of Political Economy.

Working Paper
22

Indigenous Land Rights and Deforestation: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon

Ariel BenYishay, Silke Heuser, Daniel Runfola, Rachel Trichler

2016-04-01

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.

Working Paper
20

The Impacts of World Bank Development Projects on Sites of High Biodiversity Importance

Graeme M. Buchanan, Bradley C. Parks, Paul F. Donald, Brian F. O'Donnell, Daniel Runfola, John P. Swaddle, Lukasz Tracewski, Stuart H.M. Butchart

2016-02-01

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in the Journal of Environment & Development.

Working Paper
14

Transparency and System Support in Peru

Darren Hawkins, Lucas Brook, Ian Hansen, Neal Hoopes, Taylor Rawson

2015-09-01

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in the British Journal of Political Science.

Working Paper
6

The Foreign Aid Effectiveness Debate: Evidence from Malawi

Rajlakshmi De, Charles Becker

2015-05-03

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2

Titling Community Land to Prevent Deforestation: No Reduction in Forest Loss in Morona-Santiago, Ecuador

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

2014-10-02

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in Global Environmental Change.

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