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 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
Should the WHO withdraw support for mass deworming?
Kevin Croke, Joan Hamory Hicks, Eric Hsu, Michael Kremer, and Edward Miguel
2017
Published Paper
African DevelopmentHealthEducation and Human CapitalResearch Methodology
In April 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) department and Nutrition for Health and Development (NHD) department convened a Guidelines Dev
Reevaluating Agricultural Productivity Gaps with Longitudinal Microdata
Joan Hamory Hicks, Marieke Kleemans, Nicholas Y. Li, and Edward Miguel
2020
Published Paper
African DevelopmentHealthEducation and Human CapitalOther
Recent research has pointed to large gaps in labor productivity between the agricultural and non-agricultural sectors in low-income countries, as well as between workers in rural and urban areas. Mo
Commentary: Assessing long-run deworming impacts on education and economic outcomes: a comment on Jullien, Sinclair and Garner (2016)
Sarah Baird, Joan Hamory Hicks, Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel
2017
Published Paper
African DevelopmentHealthEducation and Human CapitalResearch Methodology
Jullien, Sinclair and Garner (2016) (henceforth JSG) state that they seek to ‘appraise the methods’ of three recent papers that estimate long-run impacts of mass deworming on educational
Transparency, Reproducibility, and the Credibility of Economics Research
Garret S. Christensen, Edward Miguel
2018
Published Paper
OtherResearch Methodology
There is growing interest in enhancing research transparency and reproducibility in economics and other scientific fields. We survey existing work on these topics within economics, and discuss the e
Does Mass Deworming Affect Child Nutrition? Meta-analysis, Cost-effectiveness, and Statistical Power
Croke, Kevin, Joan Hamory Hicks, Eric Hsu, Michael Kremer, and Edward Miguel
2016
Working Paper
HealthEducation and Human CapitalResearch Methodology
The WHO has recently debated whether to reaffirm its long-standing recommendation of mass drug administration (MDA) in areas with more than 20% prevalence of soil-transmitted helminths (hookworm, wh
Can War Foster Cooperation?
Michael Bauer, Christopher Blattman, Julie Chytilova, Joseph Henrich, Edward Miguel, and Tamar Mitts
2016
Published Paper
African DevelopmentPolitical Economy and Conflict
In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase soci