This dissertation demonstrates how a transnational conception of poor people as 'backwards' and culturally distinct emerged from the nexus of intellectuals, activists, and administrators who …
The endoderm germ layer gives rise to the epithelial lining of the respiratory and digestive tracts and their associated organs. Gastrulation and formation of the …
The main goal of this dissertation is to explore differentiated citizenships within the urban poor in India. This research is based on the assumption that …
This dissertation explores transformations in citizenship among indigenous people in Guatemala. It investigates how and why decentralization has responded to indigenous activists’ demands for reconfiguring …
How do the lenders and borrowers of microfinance negotiate the often-divergent ethics of financial sustainability and locally constituted obligations of social relationships? The dissertation is …
Abstract of Development and Evolution of Scyphomedusae, by Rebecca R. Helm, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2016. Scyphozoan jellyfish are important members of marine ecosystems. Jellyfish, …
Discussions around international development generally focus on whether, and why, interventions achieve their goals of improving health, political engagement or economic opportunity in poor countries. …
Many policymakers assume that citizen participation in development policy will empower individuals and communities by both increasing the control they have over policies that affect …
This dissertation examines the implications of envy for the interplay between economic development, institutions, and culture. It offers a unified theoretical framework which shows how …
In this dissertation I examine the effects that a poverty-alleviating cash transfer administered in Pakistan for the past ten years, the Benazir Income Support Program …
For non-white South Africans, the implications of apartheid reached well beyond racial segregation. Racial disparities were also embedded in the allocation of public investment across …
This paper measures both the correlation and causal relationship between startups and urban economic growth in the U.S. over the past thirty years. Correlation results …
This dissertation investigates the long-run economic and political consequences of policy interventions. I explore two major policies undertaken by the Italian Fascist Regime during the …
The extent to which fixed natural resources effect economic growth in the face of population growth has been a widely discussed topic in economics since …
I investigate the economic consequences of travel costs in a conflicted and developing country setting, and advance the application of nighttime lights satellite imagery for …
Chapter 1 analyzes the impact of migration on long-run economic development. In particular, I study the European migration to Argentina in the late nineteenth century. …
This dissertation studies the geographical, technological, and cultural determinants of comparative economic development. The first chapter constructs new measures of distance and transportation costs for …
Much of the current development literature on small and micro enterprises (SMEs) is focused on how small enterprise owners expand their businesses and which factors …
This dissertation explores the historical determinants of comparative economic development. The first chapter examines theoretically and empirically the economic origins of ethnic and linguistic diversity. …
