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AidData’s Working Paper Series contains pre-publication papers addressing the causes and consequences of development finance; whether, when, and how data transparency and accountability initiatives lead to better decision making and improved development outcomes; and related research methods.

The views expressed in AidData working papers and policy reports are those of the authors and should not be attributed to AidData or funders of AidData’s work.

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

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Ties That Bind: Quantifying China's public diplomacy and its "good neighbor" effect

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64
AidData Working Paper

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
63
AidData Working Paper

Estimating Spatial Treatment Effects: An Application to Base Closures and Aid Delivery in Afghanistan

Kosuke Imai, Jason Lyall, Yuki Shiraito, Xiaolin Yang

2018-08-30
62
AidData Working Paper

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

Elizabeth Carlson, Brigitte Seim

2018-08-29
61
AidData Working Paper

China in Africa: Competition for Traditional Development Finance Institutions?

Chris Humphrey, Katharina Michaelowa

2018-07-25
60
AidData Working Paper

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

Silvia Marchesi, Tania Masi

2018-07-24
59
AidData Working Paper

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
58
AidData Working Paper

The Political Geography of Government Projects: Evidence from +/- 40,000 Projects in Ghana

Nahomi Ichino, Martin Williams, Erik Wibbels

2018-06-30
57
AidData Working Paper

Secondary School Electrification in Western Kenya

Susanna Berkouwer, Kenneth Lee, Michael Walker

2018-06-29
56
AidData Working Paper

Bypass Aid and Perceptions of Local Government Performance and Legitimacy

Kate Baldwin, Matthew S. Winters

2018-06-28
AidData Policy Report

Ties That Bind: Quantifying China's public diplomacy and its "good neighbor" effect

Samantha Custer, Brooke Russell, Matthew DiLorenzo, Mengfan Cheng, Siddhartha Ghose, Jacob Sims, Jennifer Turner, Harsh Desai

2018-06-27
55
AidData Working Paper

Foreign Aid and Subnational Development: A Grid Cell Analysis

Jürgen Bitzer, Erkan Gören

2018-06-27
54
AidData Working Paper

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

Vera Z. Eichenauer, Andreas Fuchs, Lutz Brückner

2018-06-26
53
AidData Working Paper

The Donor Footprint and Gender Gaps

Maria Perrotta Berlin, Evelina Bonnier, Anders Olofsgård

2018-06-25
AidData Policy Report

Listening to Leaders 2018: Is development cooperation tuned-in or tone-deaf?

Samantha Custer, Matthew DiLorenzo, Takaaki Masaki, Tanya Sethi, Ani Harutyunyan

2018-05-31
52
AidData Working Paper

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

Samuel Brazys, Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati

2018-05-25
51
AidData Working Paper

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
50
AidData Working Paper

Chinese Development Assistance and Household Welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bruno Martorano, Laura Metzger, Marco Sanfilippo

2018-05-23
49
AidData Working Paper

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
World Development

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.

Journal Article
International Studies Quarterly

Bypass Aid and Unrest in Autocracies

Matthew DiLorenzo

2018-03-13
AidData Policy Report

Toward data-driven education systems: Insights into using information to measure results and manage change

Samantha Custer, Elizabeth M. King, Tamar Manuelyan Atinc, Lindsay Read, Tanya Sethi

2018-02-20
Journal Article
World Development

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.

Journal Article
African Studies Review

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

Takaaki Masaki

2018-02-01

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

Journal Article
International Studies Quarterly

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.

Journal Article
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
48
AidData Working Paper

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

Claire Adida, Jessica Gottlieb, Eric Kramon, Gweneth McClendon

2017-11-30
AidData Policy Report

Decoding Data Use: How do leaders source data and use it to accelerate development?

Takaaki Masaki, Samantha Custer, Agustina Eskenazi, Alena Stern, Rebecca Latourell

2017-11-28
Methodology

Estimating Baseline Aid to the Sustainable Development Goals

Matthew DiLorenzo, Sid Ghose, Jennifer Turner

2017-11-06
AidData Policy Report

Realizing Agenda 2030: Will donor dollars and country priorities align with global goals?

Tanya Sethi, Samantha Custer, Jennifer Turner, Jacob Sims, Matthew DiLorenzo, Rebecca Latourell

2017-11-06
Journal Article
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.

Journal Article
The Journal of Politics

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

Simone Dietrich, Minhaj Mahmud, Matthew S. Winters

2017-10-27

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

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AidData Working Paper

Lighting the Path: The Influence of Historical Christian Missions on Modern-day Development Aid Allocation in Africa

Matteo Alpino, Eivind M. Hammersmark

2017-10-26
46
AidData Working Paper

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
Methodology

AidData's TUFF Methodology, Version 1.3

Austin M. Strange, Mengfan Cheng, Brooke Russell, Siddhartha Ghose, and Bradley Parks

2017-10-09
Methodology

AidData TUFF Coder Instructions, Version 1.3

Austin M. Strange, Mengfan Cheng, Brooke Russell, Siddhartha Ghose, and Bradley Parks

2017-10-09
Journal Article
World Development

What Do We (Not) Know About Development Aid and Violence? A Systematic Review

Christoph Zürcher

2017-10-01
45
AidData Working Paper

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

Ryan Jablonski, Brigitte Seim

2017-10-01

Impact Evaluation of the Niger Participatory & Responsive Governance Project: Baseline Report

Ariel Benyishay, Lisa Mueller, Philip Roessler

2017-10-01
AidData Policy Report

Beyond the Tyranny of Averages: Development Progress from the Bottom Up

Samantha Custer, Matthew DiLorenzo, Takaaki Masaki, Tanya Sethi, Jessica Wells

2017-09-28
44
AidData Working Paper

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
Journal Article
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.

Journal Article
Economics

An evidence-based approach to ending rural hunger

Homi Kharas, John W. McArthur, Joachim von Braun

2017-08-14
43
AidData Working Paper

BRICS and Foreign Aid

Gerda Asmus, Andreas Fuchs, Angelika Müller

2017-08-01
42
AidData Working Paper

Aid and Growth in Malawi

Daniel Chris Khomba, Alex Trew

2017-07-01
Profile

Host Country Profiles

Samantha Custer, Zachary Rice, Takaaki Masaki, Rebecca Latourell, Bradley Parks

2017-06-30
Profile

Development Partner Profiles

Samantha Custer, Zachary Rice, Takaaki Masaki, Rebecca Latourell, Bradley Parks

2017-06-30
Journal Article
International Studies Quarterly

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.

Methodology

Geocoding Afrobarometer Rounds 1-6: Methodology & Data Quality 

Ariel BenYishay, Renee Rotberg, Jessica Wells, Zhonghui Lv, Seth Goodman, Lidia Kovacevic, Dan Runfola 

2017-06-12
41
AidData Working Paper

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
Methodology

Geocoding Methodology, Version 2.0

AidData Research and Evaluation Unit

2017-06-01
Journal Article
Journal of Conflict Resolution

Foreign Aid as a Counterterrorism Tool: More Liberty, Less Terror?

Burcu Savun, Daniel C. Tirone

2017-05-05
40
AidData Working Paper

When Do Global Performance Assessments Influence Policy Behavior? Micro-Evidence from the 2014 Reform Efforts Survey

Bradley C. Parks, Takaaki Masaki

2017-05-02
Journal Article

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.

39
AidData Working Paper

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. 

38
AidData Working Paper

geoSIMEX: A Generalized Approach To Modeling Spatial Imprecision

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

2017-04-01
AidData Policy Report

Avoiding Data Graveyards: Insights from Data Producers & Users in Three Countries

Samantha Custer and Tanya Sethi, Eds.

2017-04-01
Journal Article
Sustainability

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

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

2017-03-09
37
AidData Working Paper

Targeted Foreign Aid and International Migration: Is Development Promotion an Effective Immigration Policy?

Jonas Gamso, Farhod Yuldashev

2017-03-03

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

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AidData Working Paper

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.

Journal Article
The Review of International Organizations

International organizations and development finance: Introduction to the special issue

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

2017-03-01
Journal Article
The Review of International Organizations

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.

AidData Policy Report

Financing the SDGs in Colombia

AidData

2017-03-01
35
AidData Working Paper

Impact of Mass Bed Net Distribution Progams on Politics

Kevin Croke

2017-03-01
Journal Article
Review of International Studies

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

Samuel Brazys, Alexander Dukalskis

2017-02-20
34
AidData Working Paper

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.

Journal Article
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
Journal Article
BMJ Global Health

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

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

2017-01-11
Journal Article
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
33
AidData Working Paper

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.

Journal Article
Public Choice

Locating foreign aid commitments in response to political violence

Paul Bezerra, Alex Braithwaite

2016-12-01
AidData Policy Report

In the Eye of the Beholder: When is governance data "good enough"?

Takaaki Masaki, Tanya Sethi, Samantha Custer

2016-12-01
Profile

2016 Governance Assessment Profiles

Takaaki Masaki, Tanya Sethi, Samantha Custer

2016-12-01
Journal Article

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
32
AidData Working Paper

Forest Cover Impacts of Chinese Development Projects in Ecologically Sensitive Areas

Ariel BenYishay, Bradley Parks, Daniel Runfola, Rachel Trichler

2016-12-01
31
AidData Working Paper

Fueling Conflict? (De)Escalation and Bilateral Aid

Richard Bluhm, Martin Gassebner, Sarah Langlotz, Paul Schaudt

2016-11-02
30
AidData Working Paper

Aid Management, Trust, and Development Policy Influence

Bradley C. Parks, Takaaki Masaki, Jörg Faust, Stefan Leiderer

2016-11-01
Methodology

An Open-Source Methodology for Tracking Natural Resource Concessions in Liberia: Version 1.0

Harsh Desai, Miranda Zhonghui Lv, Charles Perla, Brad Parks

2016-10-01
AidData Policy Report

Danish Development Cooperation from a Partner Perspective

Bradley Parks, Samantha Custer, Takaaki Masaki, Tanya Sethi, Rebecca Latourell

2016-09-01
Journal Article
International Studies Quarterly

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
AidData Policy Report

German Aid from a Partner Perspective

Bradley C. Parks, Takaaki Masaki, Jörg Faust, Stefan Leiderer

2016-08-01
29
AidData Working Paper

Repression and Foreign Aid in Autocracies: Exploiting Debt Relief Negotiations in Post-Cold War Africa

Brett L. Carter

2016-07-02
AidData Policy Report

From Pork to Performance: Open Government and Program Performance Tracking in the Philippines

Samantha Custer, Hanif Rahemtulla, Kai Kaiser

2016-07-01
28
AidData Working Paper

Do Domestic Politics Shape U.S. Influence in the World Bank?

Erasmus Kersting, Christopher Kilby

2016-07-01

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

Journal Article
Asian Journal of Comparative Politics

Aid and democracy promotion in Asia

Bann Seng Tan

2016-06-01
27
AidData Working Paper

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 accepted for publication in the Journal of Political Economy.

26
AidData Working Paper

The Dragon's Curse? China, the World Bank, and Perceptions of Corruption in Tanzania

Gina Kelly, Samuel Brazys, Johan A. Elkink

2016-05-04

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

25
AidData Working Paper

What Determines Earmarked Funding to International Development Organizations?

Vera Z. Eichenauer, Bernhard Reinsberg

2016-05-03

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

Journal Article
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.

24
AidData Working Paper

Foreign Aid and the Intensity of Violent Armed Conflict

Daniel Strandow, Michael G. Findley, Joseph K. Young

2016-05-02
Journal Article
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
23
AidData Working Paper

Elite and Mass Support for Foreign Aid Versus Government Programs: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

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

2016-05-01

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

Journal Article
World Development

Coups d'État and Foreign Aid

Takaaki Masaki

2016-04-01
22
AidData Working Paper

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.

Journal Article

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

Axel Dreher and Andreas Fuchs

2016-03-22
21
AidData Working Paper

Putting Money to Mouths: Rewarding and Punishing Human Rights Behaviors

Darren Hawkins, Jay Goodliffe

2016-03-01
AidData Policy Report

Governance Data: Who Uses It and Why?

Samantha Custer, Zachary Rice, Takaaki Masaki, Rebecca Latourell, Bradley Parks

2016-03-01
Journal Article
The Review of International Organizations

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
20
AidData Working Paper

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.

Journal Article
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
19
AidData Working Paper

Are "New" Donors Challenging World Bank Conditionality?

Diego Hernandez

2016-01-01

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

18
AidData Working Paper

Sub-national Perspectives on Aid Effectiveness: Impact of Aid on Health Outcomes in Uganda

Tonny Odokonyero, Alex Ijjo, Robert Marty, Tony Muhumuza, Godfrey Owot Moses

2015-12-03

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

17
AidData Working Paper

Does Foreign Aid Fuel Trust?

Alexandra D'Onofrio, Giuseppe Maggio

2015-12-02
Journal Article
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
16
AidData Working Paper

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

Simone Dietrich, Minhaj Mahmud, Matthew S. Winters

2015-12-01

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

Journal Article
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.

AidData Policy Report

Listening to Leaders: Which Development Partners Do They Prefer and Why?

Samantha Custer, Zachary Rice, Takaaki Masaki, Rebecca Latourell, Bradley Parks

2015-10-01
15
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 Parks, Austin M. Strange, Michael J. Tierney

2015-10-01

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

Research Summary: China and the Western Donors: More Similar than Different?

Tanya Sethi

2015-10-01

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

Methodology

AidData’s TUFF Methodology, Version 1.2

Austin M. Strange, Bradley Parks, Charles Perla, Harsh Desai

2015-09-01
14
AidData Working Paper

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.

13
AidData Working Paper

Does Foreign Aid Target the Poorest?

Ryan C. Briggs

2015-08-02

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

12
AidData Working Paper

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

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

2015-08-01

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

11
AidData Working Paper

Doing Harm by Doing Good: The Negative Externalities of Humanitarian Aid Provision During Civil Conflict

Reed M. Wood, Christopher Sullivan

2015-07-01

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

10
AidData Working Paper

Do Aid Donors Specialize and Coordinate within Recipient Countries? The Case of Malawi

Peter Nunnenkamp, Albena Sotirova, Rainer Thiele

2015-06-01

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

Journal Article
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.

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AidData Working Paper

Aid and Growth at the Regional Level

Axel Dreher, Steffen Lohmann

2015-05-06

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy.

Research Summary: Aid and Growth at the Regional Level

Tanya Sethi

2015-05-06

Update: A revised version of the paper this research summary covers has been published in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy.

8
AidData Working Paper

A Spatial Analysis of The Effect of Foreign Aid in Conflict Areas

Stijn van Weezel

2015-05-05
7
AidData Working Paper

Building a Stronger System for Tracking Nutrition Sensitive Spending

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

2015-05-04

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in the Food and Nutrition Bulletin.

6
AidData Working Paper

The Foreign Aid Effectiveness Debate: Evidence from Malawi

Rajlakshmi De, Charles Becker

2015-05-03
5
AidData Working Paper

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

Takaaki Masaki

2015-05-02

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in the African Studies Review.

4
AidData Working Paper

Aiming at the Wrong Targets: The Difficulty of Improving Domestic Institutions with International Aid

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

2015-05-01

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

AidData Policy Report

The Marketplace of Ideas for Policy Change: Who do developing world leaders listen to and why?

Bradley Parks, Zachary Rice, Samantha Custer

2015-04-01
Journal Article
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.

Journal Article
The Journal of Human Resources

All-Cause Mortality Reductions from Measles Catchup Campaigns in Africa

Ariel BenYishay, Keith Kranker

2015-01-01
Journal Article
The Journal of Politics

Foreign Aid Allocation Tactics and Democratic Change in Africa

Simone Dietrich, Joseph Wright

2015-01-01
Journal Article
Globalization and Health

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

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

2014-12-01
3
AidData Working Paper

Aid on Demand: 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

2014-11-01
2
AidData Working Paper

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.

Journal Article
Science

A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets

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
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Climate Policy

Encouraging clean energy investment in developing countries: what role for aid?

Mark T. Buntaine, William Pizer

2014-10-01
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AidData Working Paper

Leveraging Aid for Trade Capacity in Uganda

Alex Thomas Ijjo, Isaac Shinyekwa

2014-10-01
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International Studies Review

Rising Powers and the Regime for Development Finance

Michael J. Tierney

2014-09-01
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World Development

Explaining Global Patterns of International Aid for Linked Biodiversity Conservation and Development

Daniel C. Miller

2014-07-01
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Aid to Africa: Helpful or Harmful?

Bradley C. Parks, Austin M. Strange

2014-06-01
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World Politics

How Aid Targets Votes: The Impact of Electoral Incentives on Foreign Aid Distribution

Ryan S. Jablonski

2014-04-01
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The Review of International Relations

Choosing international organizations: When do states and the World Bank collaborate on environmental projects

Patrick Bayer, Christopher Marcoux, Johannes Urpelainen

2014-01-01
Methodology

AidData's TUFF Methodology, Version 1.1

Austin M. Strange, Brian O’Donnell, Daniel Gamboa, Bradley Parks, Charles Perla

2013-12-01
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Global Environmental Politics

When Do Environmentally Focused Assistance Projects Achieve their Objectives? Evidence from World Bank Post-Project Evaluations

Mark T. Buntaine, Bradley C. Parks

2013-05-01
Methodology
Center for Global Development

China's Development Finance to Africa: A Media-Based Approach to Data Collection

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

2013-04-29

Update: A revised version of this paper was published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution.

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International Studies Perspectives

In-And-Outers and Moonlighters: An Evaluation of the Impact of Policy-making Exposure on IR Scholarship

Bradley C. Parks, Alena Stern

2013-04-15
Methodology

AidData’s Media-Based Data Collection Methodology, Version 1.0

Austin M. Strange, Brian O’Donnell, Daniel Gamboa, Bradley Parks

2013-04-01
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Conservation Letters

Biodiversity, Governance, and the Allocation of International Aid for Conservation

Daniel C. Miller, Arun Agrawal, J. Timmons Roberts

2013-02-01
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Public Choice

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

Joseph K. Young, Michael Findley

2011-12-01
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World Development

The Rise (and Decline?) of Arab Aid: Generosity and Allocation in the Oil Era

Debra Shushan, Christopher Marcoux

2011-11-01
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World Development

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

Zachary Christensen, Dustin Homer, Daniel L. Nielson

2011-11-01
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World Development

Are 'New' Donors Different? Comparing the Allocation of Bilateral Aid Between nonDAC and DAC Donor Countries

Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp, Rainer Thiele

2011-09-29
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American Journal of Political Science

Foreign Aid Shocks as a Cause of Violent Armed Conflict

Richard A. Nielsen, Michael G. Findley, Zachary S. Davis, Tara Candland, Daniel L. Nielson

2011-04-01
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World Development

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

Michael J. Tierney, Ryan Powers, Dan Nielson, Darren Hawkins, Timmons Roberts, Mike Findley, Brad Parks, Sven Wilson, Rob Hicks

2011-01-01
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Gender and Society

Gendering Agricultural Aid: An Analysis of Whether International Development Assistance Targets Women and Gender

Elizabeth Ransom, Carmen Bain

2011-01-01
Methodology

The UCDP and AidData Codebook on Georeferencing Aid, Version 1.1

Daniel Strandow, Michael Findley, Daniel Nielson, Josh Powell

2011-01-01
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Theory, Culture & Society

Climate change, social theory, and justice

Bradley C. Parks, J. Timmons Roberts

2010-05-24
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Annual Review of Political Science

The Politics of Effective Foreign Aid

Joseph Wright, Matthew Winters

2010-02-01
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The Review of International Organizations

Controlling Coalitions: Social Lending at the Multilateral Development Banks

Mona Lyne, Daniel L. Nielson, Michael J. Tierney

2009-12-01
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Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development

Has Foreign Aid Been Greened?

J. Timmons Roberts, Bradley C. Parks, Michael J. Tierney, Robert L. Hicks

2009-09-01
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Cambridge Review of International Affairs

Inequality and the global climate regime: breaking the north-south impasse

Bradley C. Parks, J. Timmons Roberts

2009-01-26
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Globalizations

Fueling Injustice: Globalization, Ecologically Unequal Exchange, and Climate Change

Bradley C. Parks, J. Timmons Roberts

2008-05-24
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Society & Natural Resources

Globalization, Vulnerability to Climate Change, and Perceived Injustice

Bradley C. Parks, J. Timmons Roberts

2006-08-18
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Journal of International Relations and Development

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

Daniel L. Nielson, Michael J. Tierney, Catherine Weaver

2006-06-01
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International Organization

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

Daniel L. Nielson and Michael J. Tierney

2005-01-01
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Global Environmental Politics

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

J. Timmons Roberts, Bradley C. Parks, Alexis A. Vásquez

2004-08-01
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International Organization

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

Daniel L. Nielson, Michael J. Tierney

2003-01-01