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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.

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Publications

Democracy and Aid Donorship

Top Lights: Bright Cities and Their Contribution to Economic Development

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

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

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

Evaluation of the Infrastructure Needs Program II

Evaluation of the Local Governance and Infrastructure Program

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

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

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

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

China in Africa: Competition for Traditional Development Finance Institutions?

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

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

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

Secondary School Electrification in Western Kenya

Bypass Aid and Perceptions of Local Government Performance and Legitimacy

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

Foreign Aid and Subnational Development: A Grid Cell Analysis

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

The Donor Footprint and Gender Gaps

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

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

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

Chinese Development Assistance and Household Welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa

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

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

Bypass Aid and Unrest in Autocracies

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

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

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

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

Quantifying Heterogeneous Causal Treatment Effects in World Bank Development Finance Projects

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

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

Estimating Baseline Aid to the Sustainable Development Goals

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

Indigenous land rights and deforestation: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon

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

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

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

AidData's TUFF Methodology, Version 1.3

AidData TUFF Coder Instructions, Version 1.3

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

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

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

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

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

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

An evidence-based approach to ending rural hunger

BRICS and Foreign Aid

Aid and Growth in Malawi

Host Country Profiles

Development Partner Profiles

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

Geocoding Afrobarometer Rounds 1-6: Methodology & Data Quality

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

Geocoding Methodology, Version 2.0

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

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

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

Development Aid and Infant Mortality

geoSIMEX: A Generalized Approach To Modeling Spatial Imprecision

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

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

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

Foreign Aid and Growth at the Subnational Level

International organizations and development finance: Introduction to the special issue

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