CDEP student grants are currently postponed due to COVID-19.
Faculty Grants
2018:
The Long-term Impacts of a Nutritional Supplementation and Early Childhood Stimulation Program: A 40-year Follow-up to an Experimental Intervention
Researchers: Douglas Almond with Valentina Duque
Pricing Daughters and the Economic Burden of Disease: Evidence from the Menengitis Belt
Researcher: Belinda Archibong with Francis Annan
Outcome-Based Incentives in Export Markets
Researchers: Eric Verhoogen with Giacomo de Giorgi and Aminur Rahman
External Validity of School Choice Effects: Evidence from 350 Markets
Researchers: Miguel Urquiola and Kiki Pop-Eleches with Robert Ainsworth, Rajeev Deheja, and Miika Rokkanen
2017:
The Anatomy of Tariff Evasion in Liberia
Researchers: Jonas Hjort with Anders Jensen and Golvine de Rochambeau
The Andean Way? Understanding Corruption and Ineffeciency in Peru
Researcher: Paul Lagunes
Impacts of Glyphosate Use in Agriculture on Human Health
Researchers: Rodrigo R. Soares with Mateus Dias and Rudi Rocha
Asymmetric Information in the Household: Fathers, Children, and Peer-Pressure
Researchers: Anja Tolonen with Eeshani Kandpal and Carolin Sjoholm
2016:
Do National Youth Service Programs Reduce Intergroup Bias?
Researchers: Belinda Archibong and Anja Tolonen
The Arrival of Fast Internet and Skilled Job Creation in Africa
Researchers: Jonas Hjort with Jonas Poulsen
Understanding Human Capital Accumulation in Developing Countries: A Field Experiment with Adaptive Countries
Researchers: Supreet Kaur with Heather Schofield and Sidra Rehman
The True Costs of Incentivizing Small Firms to Formalize in Developing Countries
Researchers: Francois Gerard
Student Grants
2019:
Giving Birth under the Weather
Researcher: Sandra Aguilar-Gomez, PhD Student in Sustainable Development
Benefit Disclosure in Financial Choices - A Field Experiment in Vietnam
Researcher: Han Huynh, PhD Student in Economics
Does Identity Affect Labor Supply
Researcher: Suanna Oh, PhD Student in Economics
2018:
The Poor Tax: Social Sharing Norms and Labor Supply in Ivory Coast
Researcher: Florian Grosset, PhD Student in Sustainable Development, SIPA, with Supreet Kaur, Aletheia Donald, and Eliana Carranza
The Effect of Innovation Subsidies in Peru
Researcher: David Serrano, PhD Student in Economics
Merging to Dodge Taxes? Unexpected Consequences of VAT Adoption in India
Researcher: Divya Singh, PhD Student in Economics
2017:
Fraud on Mobile Financial Markets: Evidence from a Pilot Audit Study
Researcher: Francis Annan, PhD Student in Sustainable Development, SIPA
Militant Recruitment in and out of Ceasefire
Researcher: Kolby Hanson, PhD Student in Political Science
The Effects of Violence on Commercial Loans: Evidence from Mexico's Narco-Wars
Researcher: Lorenzo Lagos, PhD Student in Economics
Limited Liability and Economic Activity: Evidence from Columbia
Researcher: Lorenzo Pessina, PhD Student in Economics
2016:
Insurance Effects and Health Care Utilization: Evidence from Ghana's M-Insurance Revolution
Researcher: Francis Annan, PhD Student in Sustainable Development, SIPA
Transport Industry in Liberia
Researcher: Golvine de Rochambeau, PhD Student in Economics
Credit Scoring Meets Small Agricultural Lending: Exogeneous Shocks, Recovery, and Access to Formal Credit
Researcher: Nicolás de Roux, CDEP Fellow and PhD Student in Economics
Nation-State Formation and Political Transitions: An Empirical Analysis of Apartheid in South Africa
Researcher: Thomas Leavitt, PhD Student in Political Science
Poll Booth Safety and Women Turnout: Evidence from India
Researcher: Divya Singh, PhD Student in Economics
Dear Manager: Complaints, Vertical Accountability, and Electricity Delivery in Rural India
Researcher: Jason C. Wong, PhD Student in Sustainable Development, SIPA
2015:
Technological Growth, Climate Change, and Rural Labor Markets
Researcher: Anthony Louis D'Agostino, CDEP Fellow and PhD Student in Sustainable Development, SIPA
Enpowering the Rural Poor in the Legal Arena: An Experimental Design for the Argentinean Chaco Region
Researcher: Jorge Mangonnet, PhD Student in Political Science
The Spillover Effects of Cocaine Labor Markets: Child Labor and Human Capital in Peru
Researcher: Maria Micaela Sviatschi, CDEP Fellow and PhD Student in Economics