Opportunities

Support research on health inequalities and improvements over time across states of India, in collaboration with a prominent Indian demographer. An advanced and proactive student may have opportunity to coauthor the resulting publication.

Why do some Global South countries succeed in implementing civil service exams while others fail? The new dataset reveals key insights into government reforms.

1)understanding what limits the diffusion of new agritechnologies and whether employers who hire their family members are partially driven by social norms and family pressure, 2)finally a project investigating “earned wage access” as beneficial for low-income workers.

Environmental migration in Bangladeshi river communities: The role of non-work income

The research projects aim at using innovative National Language Processing and Machine Learning methods for research on the Political Economy of Development, touching on topics related to education, refugee integration, and health.

The Inclusive Democracy and Development (ID2) Lab seeks to understand who runs for office and who ultimately becomes politicians in the presence, or absence, of quota-reserved government seats for women in India. 

Understanding supply chains in agriculture/food products in East Africa. More specifically, understanding the importance of relationships between buyers and suppliers and how prices adapt when competition changes in open air markets.

Projects using innovative National Language Processing and Machine Learning methods for research on the Political Economy of Development, touching on topics related to education, refugee integration, and health.

This project will seek to develop a probe-based hybridization panel for the environmental detection of climate-associated pathogens in Africa/Mexico.

1)understanding what limits the diffusion of new agritechnologies and whether employers who hire their family members are partially driven by social norms and family pressure, 2)finally a project investigating “earned wage access” as beneficial for low-income workers.

Global stroke burden is increasing at an alarming rate in countries such as Kenya, the site study. We are proposing a stroke epidemiological study including clinical, radiologic and novel biomarker assessment in a subset of marginalized patients. 

Exploring the impacts of sand mining on sustainability and gender equity, with a focus on inclusive governance mechanisms.

This project will involve studying organizational and economic approaches to mitigating violent conflict and political polarization, both historically and in contemporary settings. This includes studying nonviolent civil disobedience, financial approaches and the role of economics.

As part of a large scale randomized control trial in collaboration with a state government in India, study on the role of emotional perceptiveness that can make teams more productive in generating more effective innovation. 

Help co-design, pilot, and assess digital tools to disseminate resources about lifestyle interventions to prevent dementia in India

Support research agenda investigating socio-economic challenges of the MENA region: field experiments to address water scarcity in Egypt and Jordan, and reduce religious tension in Lebanon; comparative economic history.

60 million people live in the Arab Gulf region, about half of whom are expatriate workers. How can we understand forms of economic inequality in countries like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia?

This research investigates environmental interventions to promote maternal and child health and climate change resilience in rural Bangladesh.

Graduate Student Research Funding supports faculty-supervised Stanford doctoral student research activities, particularly field-based work on global poverty and economic development in middle- and low-income countries. 

In this project you will assist in late-stage performance testing of the first open-source personal dosimeter for radiation monitoring, document the project hardware and software for public release, and engage with implementation partners in Kenya.