2022-23 Research

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Ghada Ahmed MIDP'10, founder & CEO of Insurgent Business Analytics and DCID senior fellow, co-authored the "The seabob value chain in Guyana" report for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Senior Fellow Stacey Frederick authored "Roles of the Business Environment in Global Value Chains," a technical report for the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development Business Environment Working Group.

Gary Gereffi, professor emeritus, authored "How to Make Global Supply Chains More Resilient," published in Columbia FDI Perspectives, and co-authored "Using the global value chain framework to analyse and tackle global environmental crises," published in Journal of Industrial and Business Economics.

Gary Gereffi, Senior Fellow Karina Fernandez-Stark MIDP '07 and Senior Fellow Penny Bamber co-edited the book China's New Developing Strategies: Upgrading from Above and from Below in Global Value Chains, published by Palgrave Macmillian. Fernandez-Stark also contributed to the collective project North America 2.0 | Forging a Continental Future, published by The Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Danny (Dayne) Hamrick, director of MIDP admissions and research affiliate, co-authored "Distillations of authenticity: a comparative global value chain analysis of pisco," published in Regional Studies.

Associate Professor Marc Jeuland co-authored the following:

• "Effect of electricity price reform on households’ electricity consumption in urban Ethiopia," published in Utilities Policy
• "A geospatial approach to understanding clean cooking challenges in sub-Saharan Africa," published in Nature Sustainability
• "Releasing the killer from the kitchen? Ventilation and air pollution from biomass cooking," published in Development Engineering
• "Women who do not migrate: Social interactions and participation in western Nepal," published in World Development
• "The causal effect of income on household energy transition: Evidence from old age pension eligibility in South Africa," published in Energy Economics
• "Current status, prospects, and implications of renewable energy for achieving sustainable development goals in Nepal," published in Sustainable Development
• "A randomized trial of price subsidies for liquefied petroleum cooking gas among low-income households in rural India," published in World Development Perspectives
• "Frameworks, methods and evidence connecting modern domestic energy services and gender empowerment," published in Nature Energy

Bruce Jentleson, William Preston Few Professor of Public Policy, co-authored "Bridging the Gap in a Changing World: New Opportunities and Challenges for Engaging Practitioners and the Public," published in International Studies Perspectives.

Roy Kelly, professor of the practice of public policy, co-authored “Personal Income Tax Piggybacking,” a report published by the World Bank.

Anirudh Krishna, Edgar T. Thompson Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, co-authored "The impact of Covid-19 on household poverty: examining impacts and resilience in a 40-year timeframe in rural Rajasthan (India)," published in Oxford Development Studies.

DCID Director Edmund Malesky co-authored the following:

• "Inequality and support for government responses to COVID-19," published in PLOS ONE
• "Do Subnational Performance Assessments Lead to Improved Governance? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Vietnam," published in Fulbright Review of Economics and Policy
• "Can Elections Motivate Responsiveness in a Single-Party Regime? Experimental Evidence from Vietnam," published in American Political Science Review.
• "Methodological errors in corruption research: Recommendations for future research," published in Journal of International Business Studies
• "Facilitating Development: Evidence from a National-Level Experiment on Improving Bureaucratic Performance in Myanmar," published in Journal of Politics

Mark and Lynne Florian Assistant Professor Robyn Meeks co-authored "Reducing information barriers to solar adoption: Experimental evidence from India," published in Energy Economics.

Creed C. Black Professor Manoj Mohanan co-authored the following:

• “Does the Market Reward Quality? Evidence from India,” published in International Journal of Health Economics and Management
• "Visualizing COVID Restrictions: Activity Patterns Before, During, and After COVID-19 Lockdowns in Uttar Pradesh, India," published in Socius

Lecturing Fellow Maureen Moriarty Lempke authored "Preventing misallocation or misuse of peacebuilding funds – Effective measures," published in Swisspeace’s à propos. She also co-authored "Necessary complexity in the Anthropocene: new approaches in socio-ecological systems thinking, Do No Harm, and fragility integration," published in Development in Practice.

Professor Alex Pfaff co-authored:

• "Forest concessions and eco-certifications in the Peruvian Amazon: Deforestation impacts of logging rights and logging restrictions," published in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
• "Temporary PES do not crowd out and may crowd in lab-in-the-field forest conservation in Colombia," published in Ecological Economics

Associate Research Professor Dirk Philipsen authored "What Counts—Why Growth Economics is Failing Us," published in Journal of Consumer Culture.

Associate Professor Marcos Rangel co-authored "Learners in Cities: Agglomeration and the Spatial Division of Cognition," published in Regional Science and Urban Economics.

Lecturing Fellow Kerilyn Schewel authored "Who Counts as a Climate Migrant?," published by the Migration Policy Institute.