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.
Seed Research Projects Search Opensearch
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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