Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility
Small Grant Awards

During April 2009, the team sponsored a grant competition for Undergraduate thesis students and doctoral graduate students working on topics related to the theme project. The successful awards support 1 Undergraduate thesis student and 9 doctoral students. Grant recipients will present their research on April 27 in 225 ILR Conference Center from 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Recipients of Awards

Undergraduate Thesis Student
Emma Banks	Arts & Sciences	Agency, Actors, and Alternative Development: Cocaleros and USAID in the Chapare, Bolivia
Doctoral Students
Jamie Bleck	Government	Education, Upward Mobility, and State Accountability in the Context of Education for All
Xi Chen	AEM	Does Openness Lead to Lower Reliance? Ceremony Frenzy, Gift Exchange Inflation and Social Network in rural China
Brian Dillon	Economics	Subjective Expectations and Farmer Welfare in an East African Cash Crop Market
Matthew Erie	Anthropology	The Role of Public Interest Law in China’s “Rule of Law” Movement: A Multi-Sited Ethnography of Legal Aid
Don Leonard	Government	The Political Determinants of Economic Development: Ideas, Institutions, and Foreign Intervention in Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Scott Sanders	Development Soc.	Patterns of Persistent Poverty in Post- Đổi mới Vietnam
Michael Spiller	Sociology	Best Laid Plans: Poverty, Financial Aid, and College Completion
Russell Toth	Economics	Entrepreneurial Human Capital and the Constraints to Household-level Entrepreneurial Activity in a Developing Country Setting
Shuang Zhang	Economics	Earnings Mobility and Labor Market Transition in Urban China

 

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