Publications

Listening to Leaders 2021: A report card for development partners in an era of contested cooperation

Samantha Custer, Tanya Sethi, Rodney Knight, Amber Hutchinson, Vera Choo, and Mengfan Cheng

2021-06-30

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Discourse Wars and ‘Mask Diplomacy’: China’s Global Image Management in Times of Crisis

Stefan Müller, Samuel Brazys, Alexander Dukalskis

2021-06-08

108

Mask Wars: China's Exports of Medical Goods in Times of COVID-19

Andreas Fuchs, Lennart Kaplan, Krisztina Kis-Katos, Sebastian S. Schmidt, Felix Turbanisch, Feicheng Wang

2021-06-08

107

Chinese Aid and Local Employment in Africa

Shiqi Guo, Haicheng Jiang

2021-06-02

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.

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

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

2021-03-31

106

Does Decentralization Promote Poverty Alleviation? Evidence from Kenya’s Constituencies Development Fund

J. Andrew Harris, Daniel N. Posner

2021-03-29

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.

105

Chinese Development Aid and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Tanzania

Abraham Lartey

2021-02-26

104

Project Aid and Firm Performance

Silvia Marchesi, Tania Masi, Saumik Paul

2021-02-22

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

DEval — German Institute for Development Evaluation

Development Cooperation from a Partner Perspective: How can Germany and other donors perform better in the eyes of their partner countries?

Kerstin Guffler, Ani Harutyunyan, Matthew DiLorenzo, Tanya Sethi, Mirko Eppler, Marie-Sophie Heinelt

2021-01-14

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.

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.

Bargaining with Beijing: A Tale of Two Borrowers

Alysha Gardner, Joyce Lin, Scott Morris, Bradley Parks

2020-11-18

Update: This note was revised in February 2021. The original version, published in November 2020, is available here.

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.

Journal of Development Economics

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.

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

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

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.

Kuwekeza Katika Maisha ya Watu wa Kenya

Mihir Prakash, Samantha Custer, Bryan Burgess, Divya Mathew, Mengfan Cheng, Rodney Knight

2020-07-30

Reducing the Costs and Barriers to Evaluations Using Geospatial Data: New Methods with an Application for HIV/AIDS in Cote d'Ivoire

Ariel BenYishay, Katherine Nolan

2020-07-27

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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.

100

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

Dan Honig, Ranjit Lall, Bradley C. Parks

2020-07-14

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

Seth Goodman, Ariel BenYishay, Daniel Runfola

2020-07-13

Do WHO Epidemic Declarations Matter? Evidence from the Meningitis Belt

Belinda Archibong, Francis Annan, Uche Ekhator-Mobayode

2020-07-09

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

Christina Greßer, David Stadelmann

2020-07-09

Investing in Kenya's People: Valuing the Benefits of the U.S.-Kenya Relationship

Mihir Prakash, Samantha Custer, Bryan Burgess, Divya Mathew, Mengfan Cheng, Rodney Knight

2020-06-17

Chinese Aid and Health at the Country and Local Level

John Cruzatti, Axel Dreher, Johannes Matzat

2020-05-28

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

Raymond Frempong, Lucas Kitzmüller, David Stadelmann

2020-05-28

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

Sujin Cha

2020-05-28

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

Didier Wayoro, Léonce Ndikumana

2020-05-28

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

Data Inventory: Making Data Work for Children on the Move

Jennifer Turner, Bryan Burgess

2020-05-07

Policy Brief

Overcoming Blind Spots: Making Data Work for Children on the Move Policy Brief

Jennifer Turner, Bryan Burgess

2020-05-07

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.

Counting the Costs

Mihir Prakash, Mengfan Cheng, Suzanne Schadel, Marco Kamiya

2020-02-10

Open Earth Observations for Sustainable Urban Development

Mihir Prakash, Steven Ramage, Seth Goodman

2020-02-10

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in Remote Sensing.

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

Marvelous Ngundu, Nicholas Ngepah

2020-01-27

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

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

Firat Demir, Yi Duan

2020-01-27

Silk Road Diplomacy: Deconstructing Beijing's toolkit to influence South and Central Asia

Samantha Custer, Tanya Sethi, Jonathan A. Solis, Joyce Jiahui Lin, Siddhartha Ghose, Anubhav Gupta, Rodney Knight, Austin Baehr

2019-12-10

Influencing the Narrative: How the Chinese government mobilizes students and media to burnish its image

Samantha Custer, Mihir Prakash, Jonathan A. Solis, Rodney Knight, Joyce Jiahui Lin

2019-12-09

The Political Economy of Multilateral Lending to European Regions

Zareh Asatryan, Annika Havlik

2019-12-02

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.

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

Zhenqian Huang, Xun Cao

2019-10-15

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.

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

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

Foreign Aid and Soft Power: Great Power Competition in Africa in the Early 21st Century

Robert A. Blair, Robert Marty, Philip Roessler

2019-08-22

Why does aid not target the poorest?

Ryan C. Briggs

2019-07-31

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

Public Infrastructure Provision and Ethnic Favouritism: Evidence from South Africa

Leoné Walters, Manoel Bittencourt, Carolyn Chisadza

2019-07-29

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.

Estimating Financing to the Sustainable Development Goals, Version 2.0

Jennifer Turner, Bryan Burgess

2019-07-11

Policy Brief

Financing the SDGs: Evidence in Four Countries

Jennifer Turner

2019-06-28

Are donors targeting the greatest health needs? Evidence from mining sites in the D.R.Congo

Samuel Lordemus

2019-06-27

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.

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

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.

Chinese aid and local ethnic identification

Ann-Sofie Isaksson

2019-06-05

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

Ariel Benyishay, Lisa Mueller, Katherine Nolan, Philip Roessler

2019-06-01

Does Private Aid Follow the Flag? An Empirical Analysis of Humanitarian Assistance

Andreas Fuchs, Hannes Öhler

2019-05-30

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

Evidence on Wealth-Improving Effects of Forest Concessions in Liberia

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

2019-05-30

Autocratic Aid and Governance: What We Know, Don’t Know, and Need to Know

Bradley C. Parks, Austin M. Strange

2019-05-30

Update: A revised version of this paper has been published in the Annals of Comparative Democratization.

Does Development Aid Address Political Exclusion? A Disaggregated Study of the Location of Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa

Siri Aas Rustad, Kristian Hoelscher, Andreas Kotsadam, Gudrun Østby, Henrik Urdal

2019-04-30

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

Bradley C. Parks, Matthew DiLorenzo, Daniel Aboagye

2019-04-30

Building Bridges or Breaking Bonds? The Belt and Road Initiative and Foreign Aid Competition

Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati, Yuanxin Li, Samuel Brazys, Alexander Dukalskis

2019-04-30

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 of Development Economics

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.

Can Providing Local Data on Aid and Population Needs Improve Development Decision-Making?

Ariel BenYishay, Brad Parks

2019-04-09

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.

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

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

Final Report: Evaluation of the On-Farm Water Management Program

Ariel BenYishay, Carey Glenn, Seth Goodman, Dan Runfola, Rachel Trichler

2019-02-15

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.

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

Democracy and Aid Donorship

Andreas Fuchs, Angelika Müller

2018-12-12

Top Lights: Bright Cities and Their Contribution to Economic Development

Richard Bluhm, Melanie Krause

2018-12-11

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

Samuel Brazys

2018-12-10

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

DREAMS Innovation Challenge: Applying data to increase impact of HIV/AIDS Prevention for Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Uganda

Emilie Efronson, Jacob Sims, Stephen Mugabe, and Abel Muzoora

2018-11-30

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

Counting on Statistics: How can national statistical offices and donors increase use?

Tanya Sethi, Mihir Prakash

2018-10-21

Evaluation of the Infrastructure Needs Program II

Ariel BenYishay, Rachel Trichler, Dan Runfola, Seth Goodman

2018-10-08

Evaluation of the Local Governance and Infrastructure Program

Pablo Beramendi, Soomin Oh, Erik Wibbels

2018-10-08

International Diffusion of Development Knowledge: A Field Experiment on Officials' Responses to Impact Evidence in Peru

Darren Hawkins, Aubriana Wolferts, Daniel L. Nielson

2018-09-30

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.

Journal of Development Economics

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.

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

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.

China in Africa: Competition for Traditional Development Finance Institutions?

Chris Humphrey, Katharina Michaelowa

2018-07-25

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Nahomi Ichino, Martin Williams, Erik Wibbels

2018-06-30

Secondary School Electrification in Western Kenya

Susanna Berkouwer, Kenneth Lee, Michael Walker

2018-06-29

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.

Foreign Aid and Subnational Development: A Grid Cell Analysis

Jürgen Bitzer, Erkan Gören

2018-06-27

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

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.

The Donor Footprint and Gender Gaps

Maria Perrotta Berlin, Evelina Bonnier, Anders Olofsgård

2018-06-25

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Update: An edited version of this report has been published in the Journal of International Cooperation in Education.

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

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.

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

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

Estimating Baseline Aid to the Sustainable Development Goals

Matthew DiLorenzo, Sid Ghose, Jennifer Turner

2017-11-06

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.

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

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 is forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.

AidData TUFF Coder Instructions, Version 1.3

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

2017-10-09

AidData's TUFF Methodology, Version 1.3

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

2017-10-09

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

Christoph Zürcher

2017-10-01

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

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

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

2017-09-28

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

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.

An evidence-based approach to ending rural hunger

Economics

Homi Kharas, John W. McArthur, Joachim von Braun

2017-08-14

BRICS and Foreign Aid

Gerda Asmus, Andreas Fuchs, Angelika Müller

2017-08-01

Aid and Growth in Malawi

Daniel Chris Khomba, Alex Trew

2017-07-01

Development Partner Profiles

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

2017-06-30

Host Country Profiles

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

2017-06-30

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.

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

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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Geocoding Methodology, Version 2.0.2

AidData Research and Evaluation Unit

2017-06-01

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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

Burcu Savun, Daniel C. Tirone

2017-05-05

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

Bradley C. Parks, Takaaki Masaki

2017-05-02

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

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.

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.

geoSIMEX: A Generalized Approach To Modeling Spatial Imprecision

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

2017-04-01

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

Samantha Custer and Tanya Sethi, Eds.

2017-04-01

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

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 International Studies Quarterly.

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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.

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.

Impact of Mass Bed Net Distribution Progams on Politics

Kevin Croke

2017-03-01

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

Policy Brief

Financing the SDGs in Colombia

AidData

2017-03-01

Review of International Studies

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

Samuel Brazys, Alexander Dukalskis

2017-02-20

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.

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

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.

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

Forest Cover Impacts of Chinese Development Projects in Ecologically Sensitive Areas

Ariel BenYishay, Bradley Parks, Daniel Runfola, Rachel Trichler

2016-12-01

2016 Governance Assessment Profiles

Takaaki Masaki, Tanya Sethi, Samantha Custer

2016-12-01

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

Takaaki Masaki, Tanya Sethi, Samantha Custer

2016-12-01

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

Fueling Conflict? (De)Escalation and Bilateral Aid

Richard Bluhm, Martin Gassebner, Sarah Langlotz, Paul Schaudt

2016-11-02

Aid Management, Trust, and Development Policy Influence

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

2016-11-01

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

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

Danish Development Cooperation from a Partner Perspective

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

2016-09-01

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

German Aid from a Partner Perspective

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

2016-08-01

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

Brett L. Carter

2016-07-02

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.

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

Samantha Custer, Hanif Rahemtulla, Kai Kaiser

2016-07-01

Asian Journal of Comparative Politics

Aid and democracy promotion in Asia

Bann Seng Tan

2016-06-01

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.

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.

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.

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.

Foreign Aid and the Intensity of Violent Armed Conflict

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

2016-05-02

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

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.

Coups d'État and Foreign Aid

Takaaki Masaki

2016-04-01

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.

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

Axel Dreher and Andreas Fuchs

2016-03-22

Putting Money to Mouths: Rewarding and Punishing Human Rights Behaviors

Darren Hawkins, Jay Goodliffe

2016-03-01

Governance Data: Who Uses It and Why?

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

2016-03-01

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Does Foreign Aid Fuel Trust?

Alexandra D'Onofrio, Giuseppe Maggio

2015-12-02

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

2015-10-01

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.

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.

AidData’s TUFF Methodology, Version 1.2

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

2015-09-01

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.

'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Stijn van Weezel

2015-05-05

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.

The Foreign Aid Effectiveness Debate: Evidence from Malawi

Rajlakshmi De, Charles Becker

2015-05-03

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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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A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets

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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

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