Research and Advising

Throughout the pandemic, the stellar faculty of the Duke Center for International Development and affiliated Duke researchers have continued to conduct groundbreaking research on critical and timely policy issues, from climate migration and e-governance to the effects of COVID-19 on the global economy.

2021-2022 Highlights

Publications

  • An, G., Becker, C. and Cheng, E. (2021) “Bubbling Away: Forecasting Real Estate Prices, Rents, and Bubbles in a Transition Economy,” Comparative Economic Studies, 2021
  • An, Galina, Charles Becker, and Enoch Cheng (2021) “Housing Price Appreciation and Economic Integration in a Transition Economy: Evidence from Kazakhstan,” Journal of Housing Economics, 2021.
  • Bensch, G.; M. Jeuland; J. Peters (2021). “Efficient biomass cooking in Africa for climate change mitigation and development.” One Earth 4(6): 879-890.
  • Bermeo, Sarah Blodgett. 2021. “Foreign Aid,” in Oxford Handbook of International Political Economy, Jon Pevehouse and Leonard Seabrooke, eds. (online advance publication):
  • Buciuni, Giulio, Jacopo Canello and Gary Gereffi (2022). “Microfoundations of Global Value Chain Research: Big Decisions by Small Firms.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, vol. 54, no. 6, 2022, pp. 1086–1111., https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x221099025.
  • Calder, R.; C. Grady; M. Jeuland; C. Kirchhoff; R. Hale; R. Muenich (2021). “COVID-19 reveals vulnerability of the food-energy-water nexus to viral pandemics.” Environmental Science & Technology Letters 8(8): 606-615.
  • Canello, Jacopo, Giulio Buciuni and Gary Gereffi (2022). “Reshoring by Small Firms: Dual Sourcing Strategies and Local Subcontracting in Value Chains.” Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, vol. 15, no. 2, 2022, pp. 237–259., https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsac015.
  • Chapman, Terrence L., Nathan M. Jensen, Edmund J. Malesky, and Scott Wolford. (2021) “‘Leakage’ in International Regulatory Regimes: Did the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention Increase Bribery?,” Quarterly Journal of Political Science: Vol. 16: No. 4, pp 387-427. dx.doi.org/10.1561/100.00019193 (download)
  • Crichlow, Michaeline A, and Dirk Philipsen (2021).“Introduction: Moral and Market Disordering in the Time of Covid-19.” Cultural Dynamics, vol. 33, no. 3, 2021, pp. 145–161., https://doi.org/10.1177/09213740211014304.
  • Darwish, Siad, Maureen Moriarty-Lempke and Ruth Allen. Forthcoming. Conflict Sensitivity in the Anthropocene: Centring Do No Harm in Socio-Natural Systems Thinking (CDIP-2022-0264). Development in Practice.
  • Das, I.; J.J. Lewis; R. Ludolph; M. Bertram; H. Adair-Rohani; M. Jeuland (2021). “The benefits of action to reduce household air pollution (BAR-HAP) model: A new decision support tool for energy and health sector decision-makers.” PLoS One 16(1): e0245729.
  • Do Thi Thanh Huyen, Malesky, Edmund, Paul Schuler. (2021) United Nations Development Program, Hanoi, Vietnam. PAPI 2020 The Viet Nam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index Measuring Citizens’ Experiences, United Nations Development Program, Hanoi, Vietnam.
  • El Taraboulsi-McCarthy, S., George, R., Sandhar, J. and Stockman, A.S[MG1] . (2021) "Protection and Peace in Conflict Affected Contexts: Understanding the Intersections." Overseas Development Institute and Interpeace. https://odi.org/en/publications/protection-and-peace-in-conflict-affected-contexts-understanding-the-intersections/
  • Gereffi, Gary, Anne Caroline Posthuma and Arianna Rossi (2021). “Introduction: Disruptions in Global Value Chains – Continuity or Change for Labour Governance?” International Labour Review, vol. 160, no. 4, 2021, pp. 501–517., https://doi.org/10.1111/ilr.12333.
  • Gereffi, Gary, et al (2022). “Resilience Decoded: The Role of Firms, Global Value Chains, and the State in COVID-19 Medical Supplies.” California Management Review, vol. 64, no. 2, 2022, pp. 46–70., https://doi.org/10.1177/00081256211069420.
  • Gereffi, Gary, et al (2021). “Introduction: Disruptions in Global Value Chains – Continuity or Change for Labour Governance?” International Labour Review, vol. 160, no. 4, 2021, pp. 501–517., https://doi.org/10.1111/ilr.12333.
  • Gereffi, Gary, et al (2021). “Trade Policies, Firm Strategies, and Adaptive Reconfigurations of Global Value Chains.” Journal of International Business Policy, vol. 4, no. 4, 2021, pp. 506–522., https://doi.org/10.1057/s42214-021-00102-z.
  • Gyulumyan, G., (2022) "Taxation of the Mining Sector in Kyrgyzstan", a study conducted in collaboration in April 2022 with the World Bank.
  • Godebo, T.; M. Jeuland; C. Paul; D. Legesse; P. McCornick (2021). “Water quality threats, perceptions of climate change and behavioral responses among farmers in the Ethiopian Rift Valley.” Climate 9(6): 92.
  • Hasan, Syed M.; Agha Ali Akram; M. Jeuland (2021). ""Awareness of coping costs and willingness to pay for urban drinking water service: Evidence from Lahore, Pakistan.” Utilities Policy 71: 101246.
  • Honeyman, C., (2021) “Workforce Skills Curriculum Development in Context: Case Studies in Rwanda, Algeria, and the Philippines”, Life Skills Education for Youth: Critical Perspectives, edited by Erin Murphy-Graham and Joan DeJaeghere. 2021. Springer.
  • Jeannie Sowers and Erika Weinthal. 2021. “Health and Environmental Tolls of Protracted Conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa.” Current History, December: 339-45.
  • Jimenez Rodriguez, D., George, R., Harper, C[MG1] (2021) “Mobilising for Change: How Women’s Social Movements are Transforming Gender Norms.” ODI/ALIGN. https://www.alignplatform.org/resources/report-mobilising-for-change
  • Jennifer Hoponick Redmon, Donna Womack, Andrew Kondash, Elisabetta Lambertini, Ted Lillys, Laura Feinstein, Luis Cabrales, Erika Weinthal, Avner Vengosh. 2021. “Is food irrigated with oilfield produced water in the California Central Valley safe to eat? A probabilistic human health risk assessment evaluating trace metals exposure. Risk Analysis 41(8): 1463-77.
  • Jeuland, M.; M. McClatchey; S. Patil; S.K. Pattanayak; C. Poulos; J.C. Yang (2021). “Do decentralized community treatment plants provide better water? Evidence from Andhra Pradesh.” Land Economics 97(2): 345-371.
  • Jeuland, M.; M. Moffa; A. Al-Farra (2021). “The contribution of a major urban infrastructure improvement project to reducing water deficits in Jordan.” International Journal of Water Resources Development 37(6): 976-995.
  • Jeuland, M.; O. Ndiaye; F. Usmani (2021). “The more choice, the better? Evidence from experimental auctions in rural Senegal.” Economics Letters 206: 109969.
  • Jeuland, M. (2021). “Review of the State of the Art in Analysis of the Economics of Water Resources Infrastructure.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/ 9780199389414.013.665.
  • Kalfagianni, Agni, Dirk Philipsen, et al (2021). “Beyond GDP – The Economics of Wellbeing.” Routledge Handbook of Global Sustainability Governance, Routledge, Taylor Et Francis Group, London ; New York, 2021.
  • Krishnapriya, P.P.; M. Chandrasekaran; M. Jeuland; S.K. Pattanayak (2021). “Do improved cookstoves save time and improve gender outcomes? Evidence from six developing countries.” Energy Economics 102: 105456.
  • Lee, J., Gereffi, G. (2021). “Innovation, Upgrading, and Governance in Cross-Sectoral Global Value Chains: The Case of Smartphones” Industrial and Corporate Change, 30, 1: 215-231, https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtaa062.
  • Lin, Y.; Xiangtian Wang; L. Lenz; O. Ndiaye; J. Qin; Xiaoli Wang; H. Huang; M. Jeuland & J. Zhang (2021). “Malondialdehyde in Dried Blood Spots: A Biomarker of Systemic Lipid Peroxidation Linked to Cardiopulmonary Symptoms and Risk Factors.” Journal of Thoracic Disease 13(6): 3731-3740.
  • Lin, Y.; Xiangtian Wang; L. Lenz; O. Ndiaye; J. Qin; Xiaoli Wang; H. Huang; M. Jeuland & J. Zhang (2021). “Dried Blood Spot Biomarkers of Oxidative Stress and Inflammation Associated with Blood Pressure in Rural Senegalese Women with Incident Hypertension.” Antioxidants 10(12).
  • Malesky, Edmund, Dean Dulay, and Ville Peltovouri. 2021. The Myanmar Business Environment Index: Measuring Economic Governance for Private Sector Development. DANA Facility and The Asia Foundation: Yangon, MY.
  • “Malesky, Edmund and Pham Ngoc Thach, 2022., 2021 Final Report, Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry and United States Agency for International Development: Hanoi, Vietnam.” The Vietnam Provincial Competitiveness Index: Measuring Economic Governance for Private Sector Development.
  • Malesky, Edmund. (Forthcoming). “Decentralization and Economic Development” in Handbook of Vietnamese Studies, eds. Jonathan London, RoutledgeCourzon.
  • Malesky, Edmund J., Helen V. Milner (2021). “Fostering global value chains through international agreements: Evidence from Vietnam,” Economics & Politics Vol. 33, No. 3, 443-482.
  • Malesky, Edmund J., Layna Mosley (2021). “Labor Upgrading and Export Market Opportunities: Evidence from Vietnam,” Economics & Politics Vol. 33, No. 3, 483-513.
  • Malesky, Edmund J. (2021). “Enhancing the Literature on Authoritarian Regimes through Detailed Comparisons of China and Vietnam,” Problems of Postcommunism. Vol. 68, No. 3, 163-170.
  • Malesky, Edmund J., Jason Douglas Todd. (Forthcoming) “Experimentally Estimating Safety in Numbers in a Single-Party Legislature.” The Journal of Politics
  • Marwa Daoudy, Jeannie Sowers, and Erika Weinthal. 2022. “What is Climate Security? Framing Risks around Water, Food and Migration in the Middle East and North Africa."" WIREs Water.
  • Meles, T.H.; A. Mekonnen; A.D. Beyene; S. Hassen; S.K. Pattanayak; S. Sebsibie; T. Klug; M. Jeuland (2021). “Households’ valuation of power outages in major cities of Ethiopia: An application of stated preference methods.” Energy Economics 102: 105527.
  • Moriarty-Lempke, M., Graham, J., Rose, I., Sanjak, J., Allen, R., (2022). Conflict Sensitivity in Land Governance: The Do No Harm Framework and Other Tools for Practitioners of Land Activities. Cambridge, MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects. https://www.cdacollaborative.org/
  • Morgan, S.; J. Baker; J. Orgill-Meyer; M. Jeuland (2021). “Valuing water quality with adaptation: Evidence from a natural experiment in Jordan.” Water Economics and Policy 7(1): 2150003.
  • Nyachoti, S.; T.R. Godebo; O.F. Okwori; M. Jeuland; H. Manthrithilake (2022). “Dietary Exposures to Metals in Relation to Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Cause (CKDu) in Sri
  • Nguyen, Quynh and Edmund Malesky. 2021. “Fish or Steel: New Evidence on the Environment-Economy Trade-Off in Developing Vietnam.” World Development 147.
  • Paudel, D.; M. Jeuland; S.P. Lohani (2021). “Cooking Energy Transition in Nepal: Trend Review.” Clean Energy Journal 5(1): 1-9. doi:10.1093/ce/zkaa022.Lanka.” Exposure and Health 14: 63-73. .
  • Philipsen, Dirk (2021). “The Tragedy of the Private: Theft, Property, and the Loss of a Commons.” Cultural Dynamics, vol. 33, no. 3, 2021, pp. 163–173., https://doi.org/10.1177/09213740211014308.
  • Schewel, K., (2021). “Aspiring for change: Ethiopian women’s labor migration to the Middle East,” Social Forces 100, no. 4 (2021): 1619-1641. https://academic.oup.com/sf/article/100/4/1619/6274883?login=true
  • Schewel, K. (2021) “Staying put: Why it’s time to pay more attention to mixed immobility.” Mixed Migration Review 2021: Reframing Human Mobility in a Changing World. Mixed Migration Center. https://mixedmigration.org/mixed-migration-review-2021/
  • Schewel, K., and Bahir A., (2021) “Migration and development in Ethiopia: Exploring the mechanisms behind an emerging mobility transition,” Migration Studies 9, no. 4 (2021): 1673-1707. https://academic.oup.com/migration/article/9/4/1673/6375391
  • Sowers, Jeannie, and Erika Weinthal (2021). “Humanitarian Challenges and the Targeting of Civilian Infrastructure in the Yemen War.” International Affairs, vol. 97, no. 1, Jan. 2021, pp. 157–177., https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiaa166.
  • Springman, Jeremy, Edmund Malesky, Lucy Right, Erik Wibbels. “The Effect of Government Repression on Civil Society: Evidence from a Conjoint Survey Experiment in Cambodia.” International Studies Quarterly.
  • Tobias Ide, Carl Bruch, Alexander Carius, Ken Conca, Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Richard Matthew, and Erika Weinthal. 2021. “The Past and Future(s) of Environmental Peacebuilding.” International Affairs 97 (1): 1-16.
  • Todd, Jason D., Edmund Malesky, Anh Tran, and Quoc Anh Le (2021). “Testing Legislator Responsiveness to Citizens and Firms in Single-Party Regimes: A Field Experiment in the Vietnamese National Assembly,” Journal of Politics: Vol. 83, No.4. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/715169 (download)
  • Turaeva, M., (2021) “Daughters-in-Law and Domestic Violence: Patrilocal Marriage in Tajikistan,” Feminist Economics, 2021
  • Vengosh, A., Weinthal, E., (2022). Water Quality Impacts of the Energy-Water Nexus. Cambridge University Press.
  • Wibbels, Erik, Andrzejewski, K., Springman, J., and Schewel K. (2022) “Retrospective of USAID Response to Pandemic-Enabled Democratic Backsliding: Findings Report.” United States Agency for International Development, Democracy, Human Rights and Governance Center. https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PA00Z6HN.pdf

Research and Advising Highlights

  • Lecturing Fellow Kerilyn Schewel and Asmamaw Legass Bahir from Addis Ababa University published a paper in Migration Studies titled, "Migration and development in Ethiopia: Exploring the mechanisms behind an emerging mobility transition."
  • DCID Director of Graduate Studies Sarah Bermeo published a blog on Brookings, “Climate migration and climate finance: Lessons from Central America.”
  • Sarah Bermeo’s op-ed, published in Divided We Fall, calls attention to the shortcomings of the Biden Administration’s plan to address the root causes of migration from Central America.
  • DCID Director Eddy Malesky co-authored a paper in the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, “Leakage in International Regulatory Regimes: Did the OECD Anti-bribery Convention Increase Bribery?”
  • Roy Kelly moderated a panel discussion during a webinar on the Personal Income Tax Surcharge experience in the Republic of Croatia. The webinar, attended by more than 100 Indonesian Ministry of Finance officials, focused on the policy and administration and implementation experience of the Croatian PIT surcharge. The webinar was organized by the World Bank and the Indonesian Ministry of Finance with the objective to learn from the Croatian PIT surtax experience and to identify possible lessons for Indonesia and other middle-income countries.
  • As part of the Machine Learning for Peace Project, Jeremy Springman, former senior research associate in the Department of Political Science and DevLab, and fellow researchers unveiled a new technique to study events in civic spaces and the drivers that can cause them to change in real time. Drawing on data in digital news, the tool can also forecast shifts in civic space events. Jeremy and his colleagues hope that this will be useful to policymakers, practitioners, and researchers working to understand political regimes and support democracy.
  • Gary Gereffi, professor emeritus and founding director of the Global Value Chains Center at Duke, and fellow researchers have written a letter to the World Trade Organization asking for help in revamping global supply chains to help the world’s poorest countries compete more fairly.
  • Deo Narayan Sharma Dhakal, senior fellow at the Duke Center for International Development, recently published a 400-page memoir titled, “Bhutan: A Memoir of Refugee Struggle and Suggestion for an Amicable Resolution.”
  • DCID Professor Fernando Fernholz and Associate in Research Siddharth Dixit (MIDP ’17) contributed to “Integrating Data to Evaluate a Global Health Grand Challenge,” a multiyear and multidisciplinary evaluation study for a Global Health Grand Challenge program, “Saving Lives at Birth.”
  • Director Malesky presents on migration in governance and e-governance amid COVID-19 for the PAPI launch.
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