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.
Incentivizing Safe Sex: a Randomized Trial of Conditional Cash Transfers for HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention in Rural Tanzania
Damien de Walque, William H. Dow, Rose Nathan, Ramadhani Abdul, Faraji Abilahi, Erick Gong, Zachary Isdahl, Julian Jamison, Boniphace Jullu, Suneeta Krishnan, Albert Majura, Edward Miguel, Jeanne Monc
2012
Published Paper
African DevelopmentHealthEducation and Human Capital
OBJECTIVE: The authors evaluated the use of conditional cash transfers as an HIV and sexually transmitted infection prevention strategy to incentivise safe sex.
DESIGN: An unblinded, individually
You’ve Earned It: Estimating the Impact of Human Capital on Social Preferences
Pamela Jakiela, Edward Miguel, and Vera L. te Velde
2014
Published Paper
African DevelopmentHealthEducation and Human CapitalResearch Methodology
We combine data from a randomized evaluation and a laboratory experiment to measure the causal impact of human capital on respect for earned property rights, a component of social preferences with i
Incorporating Climate Uncertainty into Estimates of Climate Change Impacts
Marshall Burke, John Dykema, David Lobell, Edward Miguel, and Shanker Satyanath
2015
Published Paper
Environment and ClimateOtherResearch Methodology
Quantitative estimates of the impacts of climate change on economic outcomes are important for public policy. We show that the vast majority of estimates fail to account for well-established uncerta
Education as Liberation?
Willa Friedman, Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel, and Rebecca Thornton
2016
Published Paper
African DevelopmentHealthEducation and Human CapitalPolitical Economy and Conflict
This paper studies the political and social impacts of increased education by utilizing a randomized girls’ merit scholarship programme in Kenya that raised test scores and secondary scho
The Price of Political Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela’s Maisanta
Chang-Tai Hsieh, Edward Miguel, Daniel Ortega, and Francisco Rodriguez
2011
Published Paper
Political Economy and Conflict
In 2004, the Hugo Chávez regime in Venezuela distributed the list of several million voters who had attempted to remove him from office throughout the government bureaucracy, allegedly to ide
Social Engineering: Evidence from a Suite of Take-up Experiments in Kenya
Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel, Sendhil Mullainathan, Clair Null, and Alix Peterson Zwane
2011
Working Paper
African DevelopmentEnvironment and ClimateHealthEducation and Human Capital
Many effective health products and behaviors available through the private market are not widely adopted in less developed countries. For example, fewer than 10% of households in our Kenyan study ar
Spring Cleaning: Rural Water Impacts, Valuation, and Property Rights Institutions
Michael Kremer, Jessica Leino, Edward Miguel, and Alix Peterson
2011
Published Paper
African DevelopmentEnvironment and ClimateHealthEducation and Human CapitalResearch Methodology
Using a randomized evaluation in Kenya, we measure health impacts of spring protection, an investment that improves source water quality. We also estimate households' valuation of spring protect
Government Transfers and Political Support
Marco Manacorda, Edward Miguel, and Andrea Vigorito
2011
Published Paper
HealthEducation and Human CapitalOtherPolitical Economy and Conflict
This paper estimates the impact of a large anti-poverty cash transfer program, the Uruguayan PANES, on political support for the government that implemented it. Using the discontinuity in program as
The Long-run Impact of Bombing Vietnam
Edward Miguel and Gerard Roland
2011
Published Paper
OtherPolitical Economy and Conflict
We investigate the impact of U.S. bombing on later economic development in Vietnam. The Vietnam War featured the most intense bombing campaign in military history and had massive humanitarian costs. W
Re-examining Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict
Edward Miguel and Shanker Satyanath
2011
Published Paper
Environment and ClimatePolitical Economy and Conflict
Miguel, Satyanath, and Ernest Sergenti (2004), henceforth MSS, show that economic growth is negatively related to civil conflict in Africa, using annual rainfall variation as an IV for growth. Anton
Civil War Exposure and Violence
Edward Miguel, Sebastian M. Saiegh, and Shanker Satyanath
2011
Published Paper
OtherPolitical Economy and Conflict
In recent years scholars have begun to focus on the consequences of individuals' exposure to civil war, including its severe health and psychological consequences. Our innovation is to move beyo
Being Surveyed Can Change Later Behavior and Related Parameter Estimates
Alix Peterson Zwane, Jonathan Zinman, Eric Van Dusen, William Pariente, Clair Null, Edward Miguel, Michael Kremer, Dean S. Karlan, Richard Hornbeck, Xavier Gine, Esther Duflo, Florencia Devoto, Bruno
2011
Published Paper
Environment and ClimateHealthEducation and Human CapitalOtherResearch Methodology
Does completing a household survey change the later behavior of those surveyed? In three field studies of health and two of microlending, we randomly assigned subjects to be surveyed about health an