Papers


This page lists selected papers working with geocoded foreign aid data. If you would like to have your paper included on this webpage, please let us know at godad@listserv.dfn.de.

Aid Allocation

Bomprezzi, P., Dreher, A., Fuchs, A., Hailer, T., Kammerlander, A., Kaplan, L., Marchesi, S., Masi, T., Robert, C., and K. Unfried (2024). Wedded to Prosperity? Informal Influence and Regional Favoritism. CEPR Discussion Paper 18878.

Eichenauer, V., Asmus, G., Fuchs, A., and B. Parks, 2024, Does India Use Development Finance to Compete with China? A Subnational Analysis, Journal of Conflict Resolution, forthcoming.

Bommer, C., Dreher, A., and M. Perez-Alvarez, 2022, Home Bias in Humanitarian Aid: The Role of Regional Favoritism in the Allocation of International Disaster Relief, Journal of Public Economics 208: 104604.

Eichenauer, V., Fuchs, A., Kunze, S., and E. Strobl, B. Parks, 2020, Distortions in Aid Allocation of United Nations Flash Appeals: Evidence from the 2015 Nepal Earthquake, World Development 136: 105023.

Dreher, A., Fuchs, A., Hodler, R., Parks, B., Raschky, P., and M. Tierney, 2019, African Leaders and the Geography of China’s Foreign Assistance, Journal of Development Economics 140: 44-71.

Aid Effectiveness

Bomprezzi, P., Dreher, A., Fuchs, A., Hailer, T., Kammerlander, A., Kaplan, L., Marchesi, S., Masi, T., Robert, C., and K. Unfried (2024). Wedded to Prosperity? Informal Influence and Regional Favoritism. CEPR Discussion Paper 18878.

Lindlacher, V. and G. Pirich, 2024, The Impact of China’s “Stadium Diplomacy” on Local Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa, CESifo Working Paper 10893.

Bluhm, R., Dreher, A., Fuchs, A., Parks, B., Strange, A., and M. Tierney, 2022, Connective Financing: Chinese Infrastructure Projects and the Diffusion of Economic Activity in Developing Countries, CESifo Working Paper No. 8344.

Bitzer, J. and E. Gören, 2018, Foreign Aid and Subnational Development: A Grid Cell Analysis, University of Oldenburg, Department of Economics, Working Paper V-407-18. 

Wellner, L., Dreher, A. Fuchs, A., Parks, B., and A. Strange, forthcoming, Can Aid Buy Foreign Public Support? Evidence from Chinese Development Finance, Economic Development and Cultural Change.

Cruzatti C., J., Dreher, A., and J. Matzat, 2023, Chinese Aid and Health at the Country and Local Level, World Development 167: 106214.

Gehring, K., Kaplan, L.C., and M.H.L. Wong, 2022, China and the World Bank—How Contrasting Development Approaches Affect the Stability of African States, Journal of Development Economics 158: 102902.

Dreher, A., Fuchs, A., Hodler, R., Parks, B., Raschky, P., and M. Tierney, 2021, Is Favoritism a Threat to Chinese Aid Effectiveness? A Subnational Analysis of Chinese Development Projects, World Development 139: 105291.

Dreher, A. and S. Lohmann, 2015, Aid and Growth at the Regional Level, Oxford Review of Economic Policy 31: 420-446.