Past Research Award Recipients
2026
Stephen Nyarko, "The Cocoa Duopoly: State Trading in West Africa", $2,624 (Evenson Fund Award)
Naasey Kanko Arthur, "Causes and Consequences", $4,831 (Evenson Fund Award)
Meichen Chen, "From Foreign Policies to Local Roads: How Used Vehicle Flows Mediate Clean Transitions", $9,408 (Sylff Research Award)
2025
Seung Yong, "Powering Green Mobility: Pricing and Subsidy Pass-Through in EV Charging Networks", $5,000 (Data Acquisition)
Harriet Brookes Gray, "Labor Rights Enforcement and Trade Flows: Evidence from the USMCA Rapid Response Mechanism", $4,615 (Evenson Fund Award)
Meet Mehta, "Firm Sponsored Training and Access to IT Jobs: Evidence from India", $19,720 (Sylff Research Award)
Maria Clara Rodrigues da Silva, "Employment Preferences of Favela Residents", $700 (Evenson Fund Award)
Meichen Chen, "From Foreign Policies to Local Roads: The Role of Used Vehicle Flows in Mediating Clean Transitions", $4,442 (Evenson Fund Award)
2024
Cheolhwan Kim, "Spatial Expansion of Environmental Policies: Local Pollutant Cap-and Trade Systems in Korea", $24,078 (Sylff Research Award)
Francesco Beraldi, "Heterogeneous Firms with Banking Relationships", $4,500 (Sylff Research Award)
Rodrigo Guerrero Castaneda, "The Timing of Parental Loss and Children's Educational Outcomes: Evidence from Chilean Administrative Data", $4,005 (Sylff Research Award)
Nghiem Huynh, "Place-based Policy, Migration Barriers, and Spatial Inequality", $1,090 (Sylff Research Award)
Nicolas Jimenez, "Assessing Distortions in Rwanda's Construction Sector", $4,505 (Sylff Research Award)
Meet Mehta, "Deconstructing Progress in Wind Energy Manufacturing and Transforming Supply Chains", $1,665 (Evenson Fund Award)
Cheryl Wu, "The Meiji Restoration and Growth", $4,800 (Evenson Fund Award)
2023
Miho Hong, "Middlemen and Herding in Korean Agricultural Markets", $10,000 (Sylff Research Award)
Anna Croley and Nicolas Jimenez, "Interoperability in the Digital Economy", $4,850 (Evenson Fund Award)
Fernando Cordeiro and Alvaro Cox Lescano, "Subsidizing Higher Education Access in Brazil: Implications for Quality", $9,150(Robert E. Evenson Travel Fund).
Nghiem Huynh, "Welfare Impacts of Spatial Policies in Vietnam", $3,500 (Sylff Research Award)
Jingyi Cui and Samuel Solomon, "The Global Market for High-Skilled Remote Services Workers", $2,850 (Sylff Research Award)
Xiangyu Shi, "Local Protectionism, Regional Production Networks, and the Spatial Distribution of Firms in China" and "Hometown Favoritism and Intercity Investment Networks in China", $3,900 (Evenson Fund Award)
2022
Lucas Conwell, "Private Public Transport: Minibuses in South Africa", $20,000 (Sylff Research Award) & $12,310 (EGC PhD Dissertation Research Grant)
Ryungha Oh, "What Causes Agglomeration of Services? Theory and Evidence from Seoul", $5,000 (Sylff Research Award)
Cheolhwan Kim, "Pollution Markets and Regional Inequality in Emissions and Output", $5,912 (Sylff Research Award)
Wei Xiang, "Global Production and Emissions", $1,650 (Secondary Data Acquisition Grant)
2021
Anisha Grover, "Policy and Resource Allocation: Fertilizer Use in India”, $4,400 (Sylff Research Award)
Jonathan Hawkins, "Financial Institutions and Financial Inclusion in India", $4,500 (Sylff Research Award)
Timothy Hersey, "The Economics of the Rise of Pentecostalism: Evidence from Ghana", $2,605 (Evenson Fund Award)
Nghiem Huynh, "Place-based policies in Vietnam", $4,800 (Sylff Research Award)
Antonia Paredes Haz, "Legal Mandates, Information and Political Representation of Women: Evidence from Gender Quotas in Chile", $20,000 (Sylff Research Award) & $20,500 (EGC PhD Dissertation Research Grant)
Siu Yuat Wong, "The Impact of Migration on Left Behind Children", $20,000 (Sylff Research Award) & $25,000 (EGC PhD Dissertation Research Grant)
Lucas Zavala, "More than a Technicality: Technical Barriers to Trade and International Market Structure", $4,950 (Sylff Research Award)
2019
Martin Mattsson, $20,780 (Evenson Fund Award)
2017
Hannah Trachtman, “Nudges in ‘Equilibrium’”, $16,600 (Sylff Research Award)
2016
Hannah Trachtman, “Too Much Technology? Cognitive Limits to Adoption in Ghana”, $3,398 (Sylff Research Award)
2015
Gabriella Santangelo, “Firms and Farms: Agricultural Productivity Shocks and the Local Indian Economy”, $8,659 (Sylff Research Award)
Meredith Startz, “Lagos Trader Survey”, $20,000 (Sylff Research Award)
Jeffrey Weaver, “Survey: Community Health Workers in Northern India, $20,000 (Sylff Research Award)
2014
Sabrin Beg, “Land Tenures, Political Clientelism and Public Goods”, $1600 (Sylff Research Award)
Amanda Gregg, “Factory Productivity, Firm Organization, and Commercial Law in the Russian Empire”, $6000 (Sylff Research Award)
2013
Yu Liu, “Fiscal Centralization and Firm Performance”, $200 (Sylff Research Award)
Xiaoxue Zhao, “Land Tenure Insecurity and Labor Allocation in Rural China”, $20,000 (Sylff Research Award)
2012
Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson, ”Crop Insurance Philippines”, $20,000 (Sylff Research Award)
Yu Liu, “Fiscal Centralization and Firm Performance”, $680 (Sylff Research Award)
Adam Osman, ”Learning About Demand”, $20,000 (Sylff Research Award)
2011
Rafael Santos-Villagran, ”Politicians, Firms, and Property Rights”, $1,795 (Sylff Research Award)
Xiaoxue Zhao, ”Land Tenure Insecurity and Labor Allocation in Rural China”, $5,450 (Sylff Research Award)
2008
Reena Badiani, “Temporary Migration and the Risk Portfolio of Agrarian Technologies Employed”, $10,184 (Sylff Research Award)
Prashant Bharadwaj, “Sterilization, Fertility, and Household Outcomes”, $3,000 (Sylff Research Award)
James Choy, “Ambiguity and Technology Adoption”, $14,000 (Sylff Research Award)
Adrian G. de la Garza, “The Reemergence of Bond Markets in Emerging Economies”, $9,000 (Sylff Research Award)
Fabian Duarte, “Welfare Implications of Moral Hazard”, $7,220 (Sylff Research Award)
James Fenske, “Economic History of Rubber in Benin Province of Nigeria”, $3,500 (Sylff Research Award)
Muthoni Ngatia, “Social Interactions and Reproductive Decision Making”, $9,600 (Sylff Research Award)
Florian Ploecki, “Spread Diffusion and Adoption of Urban Amenities”, $4,500 (Sylff Research Award)
Veronica Santarosa, “Mitigating Asymmetric Information”, $1,750 (Sylff research award)
2006
Madiha Afzal, “Understanding Politician Incentives: Evidence from Returns to Luck in Indian and Pakistani Elections”, $700 (Sylff Research Award)
Pinar Keskin, “Reallocating Water from Agriculture in Tamil Nadu, India”, $4,500 (Sylff Research Award)
Daniel Rosenblum, “Evaluating Health Insurance and Health Education in Rural India”, $9,500 (Sylff Research Award)