Ted’s main research focus is African economic development, including work on the economic causes and consequences of violence; the impact of ethnic divisions on local collective action; interactions between health, education, environment, and productivity for the poor; and methods for transparent social science research. He has conducted field work in Kenya, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and India. Many of the datasets used in his research are posted online, either on the relevant article page (on this website) or on Dataverse.
Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: An Instrumental Variables Approach
Edward Miguel, Shanker Satyanath, and Ernest Sergenti
2004
Published Paper
African DevelopmentEnvironment and ClimatePolitical Economy and Conflict
Estimating the impact of economic conditions on the likelihood of civil conflict is difficult because of endogeneity and omitted variable bias. We use rainfall variation as an instrumental variable
Tribe or Nation? Nation Building and Public Goods in Kenya Versus Tanzania
Edward Miguel
2004
Published Paper
African DevelopmentHealthEducation and Human CapitalPolitical Economy and Conflict
This article examines how government policies affect ethnic relations by comparing outcomes across two nearby districts, one in Kenya and one in Tanzania, using colonial-era boundary placement as a
Comment on: Social Capital and Growth
Edward Miguel
2003
Other
Other
Reply to Sutton et al.: Relationship between temperature and conflict is robust
Marshall Burke, Edward Miguel, Shanker Satyanath, John Dykema, David Lobell
2010