Research Library

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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Award Type
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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

Input Complementarities & Weak Links: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing

Principal Investigator
Cian Ruane Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD Fellowship
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
March 2016

Input Complementarities and Weak Links: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing

Principal Investigator
Alessandra Peter Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD I-Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
March 2016

What’s in a Name? Trade and Trust Amongst South Asian Family Businesses in the Indian Ocean

Principal Investigator
Nethra Samarawickrema Anthropology Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD I-Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
March 2016

Diabetes Care: Development of a Mobile Technology Support System for Community Health Workers

Principal Investigator
Paul Wise Stanford School of Medicine
Award Type
Faculty GDP Capacity-Building Project Award
Research Locations
Guatemala
Award Date
February 2016

New Business Models and Technologies to Reduce Energy Poverty with Natural Gas

Principal Investigator
Mark Zoback Geophysics, Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
February 2016

The Rule of Non-Law, Impacts on Growth and Poverty Reduction

Principal Investigator
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Law School
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
Argentina
Award Date
January 2016

Challenges to Female Entrepreneurship in Rural Ethiopia: Why Gender and Social Institutions Matter

Principal Investigator
Marlette Jackson Political Science Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD I-Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
December 2015

Currency Choice and the Efficacy of Financial Services

Principal Investigator
Melanie Morten Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
December 2015

Disruptions, Operational Resilience and Performance: A Study of Micro-Entrepreneurs in Uganda

Principal Investigator
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
December 2015

Does Information Provision Encourage Energy Efficiency in Mexican Households?

Principal Investigator
Gordon Leslie Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD I-Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
December 2015

Identifying Credit-Worthy Entrepreneurs

Principal Investigator
Arun Chandrasekhar Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
December 2015

Understanding the Mechanisms of Peer Influence: An Analysis of Rural Indian Households’ Decisions to Construct In-Home Latrines

Principal Investigator
Anna Lunn Sociology Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD I-Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
December 2015

Who Uses Mobile Technology to Improve Governance?

Principal Investigator
Jonathan Rodden Political Science Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
December 2015

Removing Barriers to the Deployment of Solar Photovoltaic Electricity Generation Systems in Developing Economies

Principal Investigator
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
India
Award Date
June 2015

Research Program in Disease Ecology, Health, and Development at Stanford University: Reversing Disease-Driven Poverty Traps with Win-Win Ecological Solutions

Principal Investigator
Giulio De Leo Biology Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
Bangladesh, Senegal, and Tanzania
Award Date
June 2015

Innovation Dissemination in West Africa

Principal Investigator
Hazel Markus Psychology Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty Discovery Award
Research Locations
Ghana
Award Date
May 2015

Paths to Leadership for Women in Emerging Markets

Principal Investigator
Bobbi Thomason Management Science & Engineering Department, Stanford School of Engineering
Award Type
PhD I-Award
Research Locations
Ghana, South Africa
Award Date
May 2015

Poverty Alleviation Through Sustainable Palm Oil Production

Principal Investigator
Rosamond Naylor Earth System Science Department, Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
Cameroon, Ghana, Indonesia
Award Date
May 2015

Bolstering Science and Technology Research Infrastructure in Low-Income Countries: Case Analyses of Scientists and Universities in Sub-Saharan Africa and Central America

Principal Investigator
Daniel McFarland Stanford Graduate School of Education
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
Angola
Award Date
April 2015

Corporate Taxation & Firm Size Distribution: Evidence from India

Principal Investigator
Ishuwar Seetharam Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD I-Award
Research Locations
India
Award Date
April 2015

From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce Growth in China

Principal Investigator
Lizhi Liu Political Science Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD Fellowship, PhD I-Award
Research Locations
China
Award Date
April 2015

Incentives for Distributed Energy Resources in Rural India

Principal Investigator
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
India
Award Date
April 2015

Social Network Structure within a Common Pool Resource System: Implications for Economic Efficiency, Adaptive Capacity, and Collective Action

Principal Investigator
Timothy Frawley Biology Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD I-Award
Research Locations
Mexico
Award Date
April 2015

Agency for Innovation: Validating and Scaling a Culturally Appropriate Employee-Empowerment Program in India

Principal Investigator
Hazel Markus Psychology Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
India
Award Date
February 2015

Can Novel Financial Assets Mitigate Ethnic Conflict?

Principal Investigator
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
India, Israel
Award Date
February 2015

Making More Than a Market: Carbon Credits in the Western Brazilian Amazon

Principal Investigator
Maron Greenleaf Anthropology Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD Fellowship
Research Locations
Brazil
Award Date
February 2015

Misallocation, Political Connections, and Firms’ Performance

Principal Investigator
Francisco Muñoz Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD Fellowship
Research Locations
Brazil, Chile, Uganda
Award Date
February 2015

Responsible Sourcing from Developing Economies: Management Innovations for Scalable Direct Trade with Dryland Farmers

Principal Investigator
Joann de Zegher Environmental Earth System Science Department, Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Award Type
PhD Fellowship
Research Locations
Argentina
Award Date
February 2015

Seed Transformation Program Study

Principal Investigator
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Award Type
Faculty Discovery Award
Research Locations
Ghana
Award Date
February 2015

Selective Trials for Technology Adoption

Principal Investigator
Pascaline Dupas Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
Kenya
Award Date
February 2015

Climate and Global Poverty

Principal Investigator
Marshall Burke Earth System Science Department, Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
Global
Award Date
January 2015

Corruption, Trust, and Firms’ Access to Finance: Evidence from Brazil

Principal Investigator
Emanuele Colonnelli Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD Fellowship
Research Locations
Brazil, Ghana, Uganda
Award Date
January 2015

Conversion of Biogas From Organic Wastes Into a High-Value Fish Food Supplement for Aquaculture in Bangladesh

Principal Investigator
Craig Criddle Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, Stanford School of Engineering
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
Bangladesh
Award Date
December 2014

Emergent Issues in Private Family Business Research: Family Dynamics, Firm Strategy, and Policy Changes

Principal Investigator
Jian Bai Li Management Science & Engineering Department, Stanford School of Engineering
Award Type
PhD I-Award
Research Locations
China
Award Date
December 2014

Influencing China’s Investment in African Agriculture

Principal Investigator
Peter Vitousek Biology Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
China
Award Date
December 2014

Liberating the Other 700 Million: Strategies of Rural Entrepreneurs in China’s E-Commerce Revolution

Principal Investigator
Wesley Koo Materials Science & Engineering Department, Stanford School of Engineering
Award Type
PhD I-Award
Research Locations
China
Award Date
December 2014

Measuring and Scaling Mortality in Mexico

Principal Investigator
Alberto Diaz-Cayeros Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
Mexico
Award Date
December 2014

Microfinance as a Novel Tool to Decrease Intimate Partner Violence in the Nairobi Slums

Principal Investigator
David Cornfield Stanford School of Medicine
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
December 2014

Participation in International Testing: Politics, Policy and Practice

Principal Investigator
Philip Lipscy Political Science Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
Belgium
Award Date
December 2014

Piloting a Market-Based Approach for Sustainable Urban Sanitation

Principal Investigator
Jenna Davis Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, Stanford School of Engineering
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
Bangladesh
Award Date
December 2014

Poverty, Violence, and Coercive Drug Rehabilitation in Mexico City and Guatemala City

Principal Investigator
Angela Garcia Anthropology Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
Guatemala
Award Date
December 2014

Poverty, Violence, and Coercive Drug Rehabilitation in Mexico City and Guatemala City

Principal Investigator
Award Type
Faculty GDP Capacity-Building Project Award
Research Locations
Guatemala, Mexico
Award Date
December 2014

Presumptive Taxation, Liquidity Constraints, and Tax Compliance: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Principal Investigator
John Shoven Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
Kenya
Award Date
December 2014

SMS Technology and Governance

Principal Investigator
Jonathan Rodden Political Science Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
Uganda
Award Date
December 2014

Trade Credit Information Sharing Among SMEs in Kenya

Principal Investigator
Sindy Li Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD Fellowship, PhD I-Award
Research Locations
Kenya
Award Date
December 2014

The Economic Impacts of Ebola: The First 100 Firms

Principal Investigator
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
Sierra Leone
Award Date
November 2014

An Experiment in Community Pricing (Pilot Phase)

Principal Investigator
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
Rwanda
Award Date
September 2014

Becoming Business People: Entrepreneurship and In/Dependence in Botswana

Principal Investigator
Hilary Chart Anthropology Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD Fellowship
Research Locations
Botswana
Award Date
June 2014

Corruption, Trust, and Firms’ Access to Finance: Evidence from Brazil

Principal Investigator
Emanuele Colonnelli Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD I-Award
Research Locations
Brazil
Award Date
June 2014

Developing Capacity to Assess Health Interventions and Poverty Reduction: The Stanford Global Health and Poverty Model

Principal Investigator
Douglas Owens Stanford School of Medicine
Award Type
Faculty GDP Capacity-Building Project Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
June 2014

Economic Development, Human Capital, and Private Sector Interests

Principal Investigator
Agustina Paglayan Political Science Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD I-Award
Research Locations
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela
Award Date
June 2014

Explaining Human Capital Investment in Africa

Principal Investigator
Melina Izama Political Science Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD I-Award
Research Locations
Malawi
Award Date
June 2014

Poverty, Institutions, and Economic Development in the Long Run

Principal Investigator
Stephen Haber Political Science Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty GDP Capacity-Building Project Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
June 2014

Savings Monitor: Deploying Local Social Networks to Mobilize Savings

Principal Investigator
Arun Chandrasekhar Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
India
Award Date
June 2014

Tax, Lies & Red Tape

Principal Investigator
Megha Patnaik Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD I-Award
Research Locations
India
Award Date
June 2014

Women’s Ascents to Executive Roles in the Middle East and Africa: The Potential of Swift Changes in the Face of Stagnated Progress

Principal Investigator
Bobbi Thomason Management Science & Engineering Department, Stanford School of Engineering
Award Type
PhD Fellowship
Research Locations
Egypt
Award Date
June 2014

Assessing Enterprise-Level Benefits of Direct Monitoring of Solar PV Products in East Africa

Principal Investigator
Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
Uganda
Award Date
May 2014

Criminal Violence, Security, and Poverty

Principal Investigator
Beatriz Magaloni Political Science Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty GDP Capacity-Building Project Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
May 2014

Examining the Impact of Online Courses and the Flipped Classroom Model: Evidence from Mongolia

Principal Investigator
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
May 2014

Firm-to-Firm Transactions in Ecuador

Principal Investigator
Dave Donaldson Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
Ecuador
Award Date
May 2014

Improving Profits and Safety of Pig Farmers in Bangladesh and China: A Targeted Approach to Reduce Poverty Among Discriminated Minorities

Principal Investigator
Stephen Luby Stanford School of Medicine
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
Bangladesh, China
Award Date
May 2014

Pilot Study A: Characterizing a Transformation in Agency Among Disadvantaged Subsistence Farmers in Tribal Communities in Central India

Principal Investigator
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
India
Award Date
May 2014

Poor Relief and Economic Development: A New Perspective

Principal Investigator
Avner Greif Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
May 2014

Private Equity and the Organization of Firms: Evidence from Latin America

Principal Investigator
Diego Torres Patino Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD I-Award
Research Locations
Brazil
Award Date
May 2014

Rethinking the Problem of Refugees Around the World

Principal Investigator
Ran Abramitzky Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
May 2014

Stanford Economic Development Research Initiative (SEDRI)

Principal Investigator
Pascaline Dupas Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty GDP Capacity-Building Project Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
May 2014

The Role of Law, Legal Institutions and “Legal Substitutes” in Economic Development and Poverty Reduction

Principal Investigator
Erik Jensen Stanford Law School
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
May 2014

Training for the Future: Transforming Teacher Training Programs for Rural Teachers in Developing Economies

Principal Investigator
Prashant Loyalka Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
May 2014

Transparency and New Technology to Reduce Childhood Malnutrition in India

Principal Investigator
Grant Miller Stanford School of Medicine
Award Type
Faculty GDP Capacity-Building Project Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
May 2014

Understanding Movement Patterns of Populations of Internally Displaced Persons in North Kivu, DRC

Principal Investigator
Shripad Tuljapurkar Biology Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty GDP Exploratory Project Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
May 2014

Choosing the Wrong Entrepreneurs? How to Improve Public Resource Allocation Using Rational Heuristics

Principal Investigator
Michael Leatherbee Management Science & Engineering Department, Stanford School of Engineering
Award Type
PhD I-Award
Research Locations
Chile
Award Date
December 2013

Entrepreneurship and Growth in a Global Economy

Principal Investigator
Kalina Manova Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
China
Award Date
December 2013

The Auctions of Real Options, Financial Innovations, and Economic Growth

Principal Investigator
Lin Cong Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD Fellowship, PhD I-Award
Research Locations
China, Ghana, Vietnam
Award Date
December 2013

The Pseudo-Integration of SMEs in Turkey: The Case of MÜSIAD

Principal Investigator
Avital Livny Political Science Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD I-Award
Research Locations
Turkey
Award Date
December 2013

Re-Crafting the Agricultural Supply Chain to Create More Value and Benefit the Small Farmers in Developing Economies

Principal Investigator
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
Pakistan
Award Date
October 2013

Networks and Growth in India's Startup Ecosystem

Principal Investigator
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
India
Award Date
September 2013

Analyzing the Role of Subsidies in Growing the Kenyan Aquaculture Sector

Principal Investigator
Rosamond Naylor Environmental Earth System Science Department, Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
Kenya
Award Date
July 2013

Developing the Tourism Supply Chain for Poverty Alleviation in Rural China

Principal Investigator
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
China
Award Date
June 2013

Ethnic Diversity and Innovation in Developing Economies

Principal Investigator
Sunny Jeon Political Science Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD Fellowship
Research Locations
Kenya
Award Date
June 2013

Evaluating and Improving the Educational Impacts of Solar Lights

Principal Investigator
Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Award Type
Faculty GDP Capacity-Building Project Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
June 2013

Informing a Behavioral Study on Innovation Triggers Across Low-Income Populations in Rural India

Principal Investigator
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
India
Award Date
June 2013

Performance Effects of Private Equity on Indian Firms

Principal Investigator
Troy Smith Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD Fellowship, PhD I-Award
Research Locations
India
Award Date
June 2013

Size Distribution of Manufacturing Establishments in Developing Countries

Principal Investigator
Sidharth Kothari Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD Fellowship
Research Locations
India
Award Date
June 2013

Optimizing Microfinance Groups for Microenterprise: The Power of Social Networks

Principal Investigator
Arun Chandrasekhar Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
India
Award Date
May 2013

Business Literacy and Development: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Rural Mexico

Principal Investigator
Giacomo De Diorgi Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
Mexico
Award Date
April 2013

Impact of Export Opportunity on Productivity, Management Practices, and Working Environment in Manufacturers in Myanmar

Principal Investigator
Mari Tanaka Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD I-Award
Research Locations
Myanmar
Award Date
March 2013

Political Accountability and Public Fund Management in Kenya

Principal Investigator
Kelly Zhang Political Science Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
PhD I-Award
Research Locations
Kenya
Award Date
March 2013

Social Learning of Innovation Skills: Does Promoting Cross-Cultural Interaction Improve Human Capital?

Principal Investigator
Michael Leatherbee Management Science & Engineering Department, Stanford School of Engineering
Award Type
PhD Fellowship
Research Locations
Chile
Award Date
March 2013

Feeling Good and Doing Better: Enhancing Smallholder’s Livelihoods Through High Quality Cacao Varieties

Principal Investigator
Eric Lambin Earth System Science Department, Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
Belgium, Ecuador, Mexico, United States
Award Date
February 2013

How Trade System (GATT/WHO) Could be Better Designed to Open up New Markets in Developing Economies

Principal Investigator
Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
January 2013

Governance Innovations in Sierra Leone

Principal Investigator
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
Sierra Leone
Award Date
September 2012

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Around the Globe and Early Stage Company Growth Dynamics

Principal Investigator
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
N/A
Award Date
August 2012

Does Management Matter?

Principal Investigator
Nick Bloom Economics Department, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Award Type
Faculty I-Award
Research Locations
India
Award Date
January 2012