2023-24 Research Highlights
- DCID presented research on anti-corruption for USAID.
- The Southeast Asia Research Group (SEAREG) joined DCID.
- Faculty continued their scholarly activities, publishing in journals, such as the Journal of Development Economics, World Development, Studies in Comparative International Development, Journal of South Asian Development, Journal of Politics, and BMJ Global Health.
Research News
DCID Contributes to USAID’s Agency Learning and Evidence Month
In “Do Better Managers Bribe Less? A Field Experiment on Management Training and Corruption in Vietnam,” Edmund Malesky presented research on anti-corruption, offering a multisectoral approach to address regulatory bribery.
Twelve Duke Teams Launch Research on Climate Solutions
Kerilyn Schewel, Jack Daly, Alex Pfaff and Marc Jeuland are among 45 scholars who received grants from the Duke Climate Research Innovation Seed Program to pursue new research on sustainable, equitable solutions to address climate change and its effects.
DCID Research Presented During USAID DRG Learning Forum
Edmund Malesky discussed DCID's research on the dynamics of political will and its role in anti-corruption efforts with an audience of democracy, human rights and governance (DRG) practitioners.
Southeast Asia Research Group Now Housed in DCID
The Southeast Asia Research Group (SEAREG), a network of scholars in political science and allied disciplines who are working at the forefront of Southeast Asian studies, is now managed by the Duke Center for International Development. Its biannual conferences provide networking opportunities, as well as a forum for presenting and discussing the best new research by young social scientists working on Southeast Asian studies.
DCID Hosts Myanmar Research Symposium
Subhrendu Pattanayak, Erica Field, Stephanie Wright and Edmund Malesky presented briefs on their research relating to Myanmar. Topics included women's agency and energy access, women's agency and property rights, community-driven development, and territorial recognition and citizen perceptions of group and state.
Edmund Malesky Provides Overview of Vietnamese Citizens’ Satisfaction with E-governance
The DCID director presented research he co-authored for the Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI), a policy monitoring tool assessing Vietnamese citizens’ experiences and satisfaction of the state of governance and public service provision at the national and local levels.
Edmund Malesky Testifies in Congressional Hearing on Consumer Products from China
The professor of political economy testified on how international supply chains have adjusted to the U.S.-China Trade War and the economic impact of these changes on Vietnam.
Kerilyn Schewel Presents on Global Trends in South-South Migration During UN Migration Week
As part of “The Palgrave Handbook of South-South Migration and Inequality” book launch, the lecturing fellow discussed the book's chapter she co-authored, “Global Trends in South-South Migration."
Conducted by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry with support from USAID, the PCI and PGI annual report aims to promote a business-enabling and environmentally friendly investment climate in Vietnam.
Alex Pfaff Talks to The Economic Times on How Policy Can Help Restore Ecology
In an Economic Times interview, the professor of public policy, economics and environment discussed his work on conservation in South American rainforests and the economic impacts of ecological sustainability.
Shelley Liu Authors Governing After War
In her new book, "Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-war Statebuilding" (Oxford, 2024), Shelley Liu argues that rebel groups who build strong, well-organized wartime relationships with civilians are best positioned to achieve stability, even if not full peace.
Natalia Mirovitskaia Presents at World Bank's Policy Sciences Annual Institute
In the “Toward a Policy Sciences Academy” session, the professor of the practice presented her views on the design and main goals of the Policy Sciences Academy, a new project launched by the Society.
Edmund Malesky Discusses President Biden's Historic Visit to Vietnam on BBC News
The professor of political economy spoke about the significance of President Joseph Biden’s state visit to Hanoi, Vietnam, to announce the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.
DCID Senior Fellows Talk to New York Times About Semiconductors Industry
Karina Fernandez-Stark and Penny Bamber were interviewed by Farah Stockman of the New York Times who says Costa Rica is vying to be the Silicon Valley of Latin America.
Shelley Liu on Fake News in South African Politics
The assistant professor was interviewed by Good Authority about disinformation and misinformation in the lead-up to the 2024 South Africa’s elections.
Rachel George Reviews ICJ Case Against Israel on BBC News
The lecturing fellow spoke about the International Court of Justice order for Israel to halt its Rafah offensive.
Roy Kelly's Presentation on Modernizing Property Tax Highlighted in 'Valuer'
The Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation publication's cover story included key points from the professor's presentation at the International Property Tax Institute's Property Tax Conference.
Maureen Moriarty on Illicit Financial Flows, Financing for Peacebuilding
The lecturing fellow shared how financial corruption and illicit financial flows impact peacebuilding and the need to develop a pragmatic approach to curb them in à propos, the KOFF Peacebuilding Magazine.
What Exactly is Climate Migration?
Kerilyn Schewel discussed the challenges of defining climate migration and the implications for policy on the Migration Policy Institute's "Changing Climate, Changing Migration" podcast.
Potentials and Challenges of Vietnamese Culture in Economic Development
Edmund Malesky spoke about economic development in Vietnam and his research projects related to Vietnam, including the Provincial Competitiveness Index, which evaluates the country’s business environment, on the Forward Vietnam Podcast.
Climate-Related Migration and Adaptation Funding
Sarah Bermeo and Kerilyn Schewel discussed the effect of climate on migration, forecast models, adaptation funding, and aid allocation on the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) podcast "Building the Future: Freedom, Prosperity & Foreign Policy with Dan Runde."
Select Publications by Scholar
Bamber, P., Fernandez-Stark, K., & Molina, O. (2023). Innovation and competitiveness in the copper-mining GVC: developing local suppliers in Peru. Industrial and Corporate Change. https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtad033
Gonzalez, E. A., van Wijk, A., Adhikari, S., Asal, V., Beardsley, K., Jahanbani, N., … Sorci, G. (2024). Great power politics and the dynamics of capability: the prevention of near-crisis escalation. In Research Handbook on Conflict Prevention (pp. 305–323). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803920849.00024
Beardsley, K., & Beardsley, J. (2023). Can peace operations mitigate the effect of armed conflict on malnutrition? Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire. Environment and Security, 1(1–2), 36–61. https://doi.org/10.1177/27538796231177152
Ye, V. Y., & Becker, C. M. (2024). Moving mountains: Geography, neighborhood sorting, and spatial income segregation. Journal of Regional Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12697
Mao, W., McDade, K. K., Ogbuoji, O., Yamey, G., & Bermeo, S. B. (2023). Strategic donor behaviour and country vulnerability in health aid transitions. BMJ Global Health, 8(11), e012953. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2023-012953
Bermeo, S. B. (2024). "Chapter 4: Trends and challenges in aid allocation." Handbook of Aid and Development. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800886810.00010
Bamber, P., Fernandez-Stark, K., & Molina, O. (2023). Innovation and competitiveness in the copper-mining GVC: developing local suppliers in Peru. Industrial and Corporate Change. https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtad033
T. Robert Fetter, Faraz Usmani, Fracking, farmers, and rural electrification in India, Journal of Development Economics, Volume 170, 2024, 103308, ISSN 0304-3878, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103308.
Field, E., Pande, R., Rigol, N., Schaner, S., Stacy, E., & Moore, C. T. (2023). Measuring time use in rural India: Design and validation of a low-cost survey module. Journal of Development Economics, 164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103105
Buchmann, N., Field, E., Glennerster, R., Nazneen, S., & Wang, X. Y. (2023). A Signal to End Child Marriage: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh. American Economic Review, 113(10), 2645–2688. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20220720
De Marchi, V., Bettiol, M., & Di Maria, E. (Eds.). (2023). Global Value Chain Studies: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead: Proceedings of the Doctorate ad Honorem Awarding Ceremony to Prof. Gary Gereffi and related workshop (pp. 1–114). Padova, Italy: Padova University Press.
Gereffi, G. (2023). Navigating 21st century industrial policy. Columbia FDI Perspectives, 1–4.
Abebe D. Beyene, Alemu Mekonnen, Marc Jeuland, Sebastian Czakon, Socioeconomic impacts of solar home systems in rural Ethiopia, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 192, 2024, 114197, ISSN 1364-0321, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2023.114197.
Social Impact. “Benin Power Compact - Off-Grid Energy Access: Interim Analysis Report.” Washington, DC: Millennium Challenge Corporation, December 2023. https://doi.org/10.3886/sm7k-en49.
Shikun Cheng, Sunil Prasad Lohani, Utsav Shree Rajbhandari, Poushan Shrestha, Sophie Shrees, Ramchandra Bhandari, Marc Jeuland, Sustainability of large-scale commercial biogas plants in Nepal, Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 434, 2024, 139777, ISSN 0959-6526, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.139777.
Marc Jeuland, Peter Babyenda, Abebe Beyene, Gabriel Hinju, Richard Mulwa, Jonathan Phillips, Samuel A. Zewdie, Barriers to off-grid energy development: Evidence from a comparative survey of private sector energy service providers in Eastern Africa, Renewable Energy, Volume 216, 2023, 119098, ISSN 0960-1481, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2023.119098.
Arjan de Haan et al., “Making Clean Energy Transitions More Inclusive: Evidence, Knowledge Gaps, and Policy Options in Low-Income Economies,” T20 Policy Brief, July 2023.
Krishna, A., & Bonu, S. (2023). Uneven Gains and Bottom-50 Districts: Intergenerational Educational Mobility in India. Economic and Political Weekly, 58(42), 34–45.
Krishna, A., Kumar, S., & Rains, E. (2023). A Range of Informality Across Cities and Slums: Understanding Precarity in Patna’s Slums Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of South Asian Development, 18(2), 244–264. https://doi.org/10.1177/09731741231155705
Dulay, D., & Malesky, E. (2023). Facilitating Development: Evidence from a National-Level Experiment on Improving Bureaucratic Performance in Myanmar. Journal of Politics, 85(4), 1385–1400. https://doi.org/10.1086/723989
Delios, A., Malesky, E. J., Yu, S., & Riddler, G. (2024). Methodological errors in corruption research: Recommendations for future research. Journal of International Business Studies, 55(2), 235–251. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-023-00637-8
Malesky, E. J., & Nguyen, Q. (2024). Testing the Drivers of Corporate Environmentalism in Vietnam. Studies in Comparative International Development, 59(1), 86–112. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-023-09400-4
Liu, A. H., & Malesky, E. J. (2024). Cultural Constraints and Policy Implementation: Effects of the Beijing License Plate Lottery on the Environment. Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 19(1), 91–126. https://doi.org/10.1561/100.00022015
Becker, J., Benson, S., Dunne, J. P., & Malesky, E. (2024). Disaggregated defense spending: Introduction to data. Journal of Peace Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433231215785
Malesky, Edmund J., and Trung Anh Nguyen. (2024). Historical Communist Party Strength and Modern Party Loyalty. A Replication Study of Barceló (PNAS,2021). Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics (JCRE), 3(2024-5), 1-27.
Bonifai, Niccolo, Edmund J. Malesky, Nita Rudra (forthcoming). “Economic Risk Perceptions and Willingness to Learn about Globalization: A Field Experiment with Migrants and Other Underprivileged Groups in Vietnam” American Journal of Political Science.
Fertig, Alexander, Alexandra Hartman, Lakshmi Iyer, and Edmund Malesky (forthcoming). “A Field of Her Own: Property Rights and Women’s Agency in Myanmar.” Journal of Politics.
Wagner, Z., Banerjee, S., Mohanan, M., & Sood, N. (2023). Does the market reward quality? Evidence from India. International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 23(3), 467–505. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-022-09341-w
Malani, A., Aiyar, J., Sant, A., Kamran, N., Mohanan, M., Taneja, S., … Acharya, A. (2024). Comparing population-level humoral and cellular immunity to SARS-Cov-2 in Bangalore, India. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 5758. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-54922-z
Wagner, Z., Mohanan, M., Zutshi, R., Mukherji, A., & Sood, N. (2024). What drives poor quality of care for child diarrhea? Experimental evidence from India. Science (New York, N.Y.), 383(6683), eadj9986. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adj9986
Gazeaud, J., Khan, N., Mvukiyehe, E., & Sterck, O. (2023). With or without him? Experimental evidence on cash grants and gender-sensitive trainings in Tunisia. Journal of Development Economics, 165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103169
Pakhtigian, E. L., Jeuland, M., Pattanayak, S. K., & Phillips, J. (2024). Estimating Lost Dividends from Incomplete Energy Access Transitions. Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1017/bca.2024.14
Pakhtigian, E. L., Pattanayak, S. K., & Tan-Soo, J. S. (2024). Forest Fires, Smoky Kitchens, and Human Health in Indonesia. Environmental and Resource Economics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-024-00865-y
Krishnapriya, P. P., Pattanayak, S. K., Somanathan, E., Keil, A., Jat, M. L., Sidhu, H. S., & Shyamsundar, P. (2024). Mitigating agricultural residue burning: challenges and solutions across land classes in Punjab, India. Environmental Research: Food Systems, 1(1), 015001–015001. https://doi.org/10.1088/2976-601x/ad2689
Madrigal-Ballestero, R., Mullan, K., Pacay, E., Pattanayak, S. K., Robalino, J., & Evia, P. (2024). Volumetric pricing in rural Central America: Drivers of adoption and potential effects on water delivery. World Development Sustainability, 4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2024.100163
Pakhtigian, E. L., & Pattanayak, S. K. (2024). Social setting, gender, and preferences for improved sanitation: Evidence from experimental games in rural India. World Development, 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106556
Carr-Wilson, S., Pattanayak, S. K., & Weinthal, E. (2024). Critical mineral mining in the energy transition: A systematic review of environmental, social, and governance risks and opportunities (Accepted). Energy Research and Social Science, 116.
Losos, E. C., Pfaff, A., & Pimm, S. L. (2024). Tackling debt, biodiversity loss, and climate change. Science (New York, N.Y.), 384(6696), 618–621. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ado7418
Gill, D. A., Lester, S. E., Free, C. M., Pfaff, A., Iversen, E., Reich, B. J., … Warmuth, L. M. (2024). A diverse portfolio of marine protected areas can better advance global conservation and equity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(10), e2313205121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2313205121
Philipsen, D. (2023). What Counts—Why Growth Economics is Failing Us. Journal of Consumer Culture, 23(3), 536–554. https://doi.org/10.1177/14695405221136235
Holbein, J. B., Rangel, M. A., Moore, R., & Croft, M. (2023). Is Voting Transformative? Expanding and Meta-Analyzing the Evidence. Political Behavior, 45(3), 1015–1044. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-021-09746-2
Iyer, Monica and Schewel, Kerilyn, Articulating and Claiming the Right to Stay in the Context of Climate Change (May 14, 2024). Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, Vol. 38 Issue 2., Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2024-30, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4763724
Schewel, K., & Debray, A. (2023). Global trends in south-south migration. In The Palgrave Handbook of South-South Migration and Inequality (pp. 153–181). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39814-8
Debray, A., Ruyssen, I., & Schewel, K. (2023). The Aspiration to Stay: A Global Analysis. International Migration Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183231216087
Hill, L., Wolter, S., Pluer, W. T., Rogers, T., Johnson, J., Miller, G. H., … Darcy, J. W. (2024). Designing Pilot Treatment Systems for Evaluation of Passive Nitrogen and Phosphorus Filtration in Stormwater. In 2024 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium, SIEDS 2024 (pp. 130–135). https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS61124.2024.10534681
Mao, W., Zimmerman, A., Urli Hodges, E., Ortiz, E., Dods, G., Taylor, A., & Udayakumar, K. (2023). Comparing research and development, launch, and scale up timelines of 18 vaccines: lessons learnt from COVID-19 and implications for other infectious diseases. BMJ Global Health, 8(9), e012855. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2023-012855
Ndembi, N., Aluso, A., Habtemariam, M. K., Tsague, L., Mwaba, G., Muktar, A., … Kaseya, J. (2024). African leadership is critical in responding to public health threats. Nature Communications, 15(1), 877. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45220-3
Mao, W., Cooke, R., Silimperi, D., Urli Hodges, E., Ortiz, E., & Udayakumar, K. (2023). Scaling malaria interventions: bottlenecks to malaria elimination. BMJ Global Health, 8(11), e013378. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2023-013378
Williams, B. A., López-Cubillos, S., Ochoa-Quintero, J. M., Crouzeilles, R., Villa-Piñeros, M., Isaacs & Cubides, P. J., … Beyer, H. L. (2024). Bringing the forest back: Restoration priorities in Colombia. Diversity and Distributions, 30(4). https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13821
Ashton, M. S., Martin, M. P., & Vincent, J. R. (2024). People today who plant trees successfully do it for livelihoods and income not for biodiversity or climate mitigation. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2024.1372409
Albright, E. A., Coleman Flowers, C., Kramer, R. A., & Weinthal, E. S. (2024). Failing septic systems in Lowndes County, Alabama: citizen participation, science, and community knowledge. Local Environment, 29(2), 135–142. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2023.2267066
Carr-Wilson, S., Pattanayak, S. K., & Weinthal, E. (2024). Critical mineral mining in the energy transition: A systematic review of environmental, social, and governance risks and opportunities (Accepted). Energy Research and Social Science, 116.
Yamey, G., Diez Roux, A. V., Clark, J., & Abbasi, K. (2024). Pandemic lessons for the 2024 US presidential election. BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.), 384, q150. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q150
Kasper, T., Yamey, G., Dwyer, S., McDade, K. K., Lidén, J., Lüdemann, C., … Benn, C. (2023). Rethinking how development assistance for health can catalyse progress on primary health care. Lancet (London, England), 402(10418), 2253–2264. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(23)01813-5
Shahid, M., Schäferhoff, M., Brown, G., & Yamey, G. (2024). How feasible is it to mobilize $31 billion a year for pandemic preparedness and response? An economic growth modelling analysis. Globalization and Health, 20(1), 54. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-024-01058-4
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