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.
Using survey questions to measure preferences: Lessons from an experimental validation in Kenya
Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilova, and Edward Miguel
2020
Published Paper
African DevelopmentResearch Methodology
Can a short survey instrument reliably measure a range of fundamental economic preferences across diverse settings? We focus on survey questions that systematically predict behavior in incentivized
Transparency and Reproducibility: Conceptualizing the Problem (Chapter 6) and Potential Solutions (Chapter 7)
Christensen, Garret, and Edward Miguel
2020
Book Chapter
Research Methodology
A broad overview of research transparency and open science issues in the social sciences, across two chapters (Chapters 6 and 7).
Does Electrification Supercharge Economic Development?
Lee, Kenneth, Edward Miguel, and Catherine Wolfram
2020
Published Paper
African DevelopmentEnvironment and Climate
In this paper, we discuss what we can learn from the past decade of microeconomic research on the impacts of household electrification, with the goal of highlighting how future initiatives can be be
Non-economic factors in violence: Evidence from organized crime, suicides and climate in Mexico
Baysan, Ceren, Marshall Burke, Felipe Gonzalez, Solomon Hsiang, and Edward Miguel
2019
Published Paper
Environment and ClimatePolitical Economy and Conflict
Organized intergroup violence is almost universally modeled as a calculated act motivated by economic factors. In contrast, it is generally assumed that non-economic factors, such as an individual&r
A study of the impact of data sharing on article citations using journal policies as a natural experiment
Christensen, Garret, Allan Dafoe, Edward Miguel, Don A. Moore, and Andrew K. Rose
2019
Published Paper
Research Methodology
This study estimates the effect of data sharing on the citations of academic articles, using journal policies as a natural experiment. We begin by examining 17 high-impact journals that have adopted
General Equilibrium Effects of Cash Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Dennis Egger, Johannes Haushofer, Edward Miguel, Paul Niehaus, and Michael Walker
2022
Published Paper
African DevelopmentOtherResearch Methodology
How large economic stimuli generate individual and aggregate responses is a central question in economics, but has not been studied experimentally. We provided one-time cash transfers of about USD 100
Using RCTs to Estimate Long-Run Impacts in Development Economics
Adrien Bouguen, Yue Huang, Michael Kremer, and Edward Miguel
2019
Published Paper
African DevelopmentEducation and Human CapitalHealthResearch Methodology
We assess evidence from randomized control trials (RCTs) on long-run economic productivity and living standards in poor countries. We first document that several studies estimate large positive long-r
Sell Low and Buy High: Arbitrage and Local Price Effects in Kenyan Markets
Burke, Marshall, Lauren Falcao Bergquist, and Edward Miguel
2019
Published Paper
African DevelopmentEnvironment and Climate
Large and regular seasonal price fluctuations in local grain markets appear to offer African farmers substantial inter-temporal arbitrage opportunities, but these opportunities remain largely unexpl
Economics of Mass Deworming Programs
Ahuja, Amrita, Sarah Baird, Joan Hamory Hicks, Michael Kremer, and Edward Miguel
2017
Book Chapter
African DevelopmentHealthEducation and Human Capital
Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) and schistosomiasis infections affect more than 1 billion people, mainly in
low- and middle-income countries, particularly school-age children. This chapter discuss
Spillover effects in epidemiology: parameters, study designs, and methodological considerations
Jade Benjamin-Chung, David Berger, Benjamin F. Arnold, Alan E. Hubbard, Stephen P. Luby, Edward Miguel, John M. Colford Jr.
2017
Published Paper
HealthEducation and Human CapitalResearch Methodology
Many public health interventions provide benefits that extend beyond their direct recipients and impact people in close physical or social proximity who did not directly receive the intervention the
Spillover effects on health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
Jade Benjamin-Chung, Jaynal Abedin, David Berger, Ashley Clark, Veronica Jimenez, Eugene Konagaya, Diana Tran, Benjamin F. Arnold, Alan E. Hubbard, Stephen P. Luby, Edward Miguel and John M. Colford J
2017
Published Paper
HealthEducation and Human CapitalResearch Methodology
Background: Many interventions delivered to improve health may benefit not only direct recipients but also people in close physical or social proximity. Our objective was to review all published lit
Self-Control and Demand for Preventive Health: Evidence from Hypertension in India
Bai, Liang, Benjamin Handel, Edward Miguel, and Gautam Rao
2020
Working Paper
HealthEducation and Human CapitalOther
Self-control problems constitute a potential explanation for the under-investment in preventive health in low-income countries. Behavioral economics offers a tool to solve such problems: commitment