The Seed research library serves as a resource for Stanford faculty and PhD students conducting work on poverty alleviation.
This library hosts a collection of completed research project findings, including published research papers, video content, articles, and more funded by Seed through the Stanford King Center on Global Development.
All researchers received funding support for their projects from the Innovation & Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies Award Program, or I-Award; the Global Development and Poverty Initiative Award Program; or the Discovery Awards Program.
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The Role of Infrastructure in Poverty Alleviation: Comparing U.S. and Chinese Infrastructure Development
Principal Investigator
Francis Fukuyama Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
China
Award Date
July 2017
Resource Traps and Cycles of Poverty
Principal Investigator
Steven Press Department of History Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
April 2017
Advancing Smallholder Palm Farmers under No-Deforestation Pressures
Principal Investigator
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
Ghana, Indonesia
Award Date
March 2017
Conflict and Economic Mobility: Evidence from Iraq
Principal Investigator
Thomas Ginn Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD Fellowship
Research Locations
Iraq
Award Date
March 2017
Introduction of On-Premises Piped Water Access to Rural Households in Southern Zambia: Implications for Poverty Alleviation, Female Entrepreneurship, and Human Health
Principal Investigator
James Winter Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, Stanford School of Engineering
Award Type
PhD I-Award
Research Locations
Zambia
Award Date
March 2017
Investigating Interlinked Transactions and Relational Contract Farming in the Ghanaian Palm Oil Sector
Principal Investigator
Casey Maue Environmental Earth System Science Department, Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Award Type
PhD I-Award
Research Locations
Ghana
Award Date
March 2017
Microfinance Contracts for Farmers in Western Kenya
Principal Investigator
Odyssia Ng Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD I-Award
Research Locations
Kenya
Award Date
March 2017
Pricing And Spatial Conditional Cash Transfer Experiments To Understand The Labor Market Impact Of Public Transport Investments In Dar Es Salaam
Principal Investigator
Melanie Morten Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
Tanzania
Award Date
March 2017
Risky Business: Mining and Trading Sri Lankan Gems in the Indian Ocean Region
Principal Investigator
Nethra Samarawickrema Anthropology Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD Fellowship
Research Locations
Hong Kong, India, Singapore, Sri Lanka
Award Date
March 2017
Rural Entrepreneurial Performance Enhanced by Return Migration: Evidence from e-Commerce
Principal Investigator
Wesley Koo Management Science & Engineering Department, Stanford School of Engineering
Award Type
PhD Fellowship
Research Locations
China
Award Date
March 2017
Supply Chain Innovations and Firm Productivity Complementarities: Evidence from the Health Sector in Rwanda
Principal Investigator
Robert Fletcher Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD I-Award
Research Locations
Rwanda
Award Date
March 2017
Where the Action Is: A Conceptual and Experimental Evaluation of Measurement, Dynamics, and Reputational Incentives in Corrupt Transactions
Principal Investigator
Diana Dakhlallah Sociology Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD Fellowship
Research Locations
Morocco
Award Date
March 2017
Discovering and Sharing Business Ideas Among Female Business Owners
Principal Investigator
Solene Delecourt Stanford Graduate School of Business
Award Type
PhD I-Award
Research Locations
India
Award Date
November 2016
How Does Bureaucracy Impact Idea Generation? A Randomized Field Experiment in an Entrepreneurship Bootcamp in Bangladesh
Principal Investigator
Khonika Gope Management Science & Engineering Department, Stanford School of Engineering
Award Type
PhD I-Award
Research Locations
Bangladesh
Award Date
November 2016
Going Back to India: Does Management Matter in the Long Run?
Principal Investigator
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
India
Award Date
October 2016
Managerial Capital Within the Village
Principal Investigator
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
Sierra Leone
Award Date
October 2016
From a One Child Policy to a 50 Million Child Policy: Working with China’s Family Planning Commission to improve Child Outcomes
Principal Investigator
Scott Rozelle Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Award Type
PhD I-Award
Research Locations
China
Award Date
June 2016
Alleviating Poverty Through a Safe Water Product Development Alliance
Principal Investigator
Jenna Davis Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, Stanford School of Engineering
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
May 2016
Closing the Data Divide: Machine Learning Approaches for Understanding Livelihoods of the Poor Using Unconventional Data Sources
Principal Investigator
Stefano Ermon Computer Science Department, Stanford School of Engineering
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda
Award Date
May 2016
Pigs and Parasites: Developing Interventions to End Cycles of Poverty Caused by Taenia Solium and Neurocysticercosis
Principal Investigator
Stephen Luby Stanford School of Medicine
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
May 2016
The Effectiveness and Legitimacy of Material Incentives in Labor Contracts: An International Comparative Experiment
Principal Investigator
Marcel Fafchamps Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
May 2016
Identifying Potential Entrepreneurs: Evidence from Brazil
Principal Investigator
Shai Bernstein Stanford Graduate School of Business
Award Type
Faculty Discovery Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
April 2016
Economies of Sale: Aspirational Igbo Nigerian Mercantilism Across the Global South
Principal Investigator
Vivian Lu Anthropology Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD Fellowship
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
March 2016
Enabling Investment through Urban Property Formalization: Experimental Evidence from Colombia
Principal Investigator
Francisco Garfias Political Science Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD I-Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
March 2016