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.
Promoting an Open Research Culture
B. A. Nosek, G. Alter, G. C. Banks, D. Borsboom, S. D. Bowman, S. J. Breckler, S. Buck, C. D. Chambers, G. Chin, G. Christensen, M. Contestabile, A. Dafoe, E. Eich, J. Freese, R. Glennerster, D. Gorof
2015
Published Paper
Research Methodology
The journal article is central to the research communication process. Guidelines for authors define what aspects of the research process should be made available to the community to evaluate, critiq
War and Local Collective Action in Sierra Leone: A Comment on the Use of Coefficient Stability Approaches
Felipe Gonzalez and Edward Miguel
2015
Published Paper
African DevelopmentPolitical Economy and ConflictResearch Methodology
In a study of the effect of civil war exposure on local collective action outcomes in Sierra Leone, Bellows and Miguel (2009) employ a coefï¬cient stability approac
Reconciling climate-conflict meta-analyses: reply to Buhaug et al.
Solomon M. Hsiang, Marshall Burke, Edward Miguel
2014
Published Paper
African DevelopmentEnvironment and ClimatePolitical Economy and ConflictResearch Methodology
A comment by Buhaug et al. attributes disagreement between our recent analyses and their review articles to biased decisions in our meta-analysis and a difference of opinion regarding statistical ap
Climate and Conflict
Burke, Marshall, Solomon M. Hsiang, and Edward Miguel
2015
Other
Environment and ClimatePolitical Economy and ConflictResearch Methodology
We review the emerging literature on climate and conflict.We consider multiple types of human conflict, including both interpersonal conflict, such as assault and murder, and intergroup conflict, in
Electrification for ‘Under Grid’ Households in Rural Kenya
Kenneth Lee, Eric Brewer, Carson Christiano, Francis Meyo, Edward Miguel, Matthew Podolsky, Javier Rosa, and Catherine Wolfram
2015
Published Paper
African DevelopmentEnvironment and Climate
In Sub-Saharan Africa, 600 million people live without electricity. Despite ambitions of governments and donors to invest in rural electrification, decisions about how to extend electricity access a
Temperature and violence
Mark A. Cane, Solomon M. Hsiang, David B. Lobell, Kyle C. Meng, Edward Miguel, Shanker Satyanath
2014
Published Paper
Environment and ClimatePolitical Economy and ConflictResearch Methodology
Promoting Transparency in Social Science Research
E. Miguel, C. Camerer, K. Casey, J. Cohen, K. M. Esterling, A. Gerber, R. Glennerster, D. P. Green, M. Humphreys, G. Imbens, D. Laitin, T. Madon, L. Nelson, B. A. Nosek, M. Petersen, R. Sedlmayr, J. P
2014
Published Paper
Research Methodology
We survey recent progress toward research transparency in the social sciences and make the case for standards and practices that help realign scholarly incentives with scholarly values. There is gro
Reconciling Temperature-conflict Results in Kenya
Solomon M. Hsiang, Marshall Burke, and Edward Miguel
2013
Working Paper
African DevelopmentEnvironment and ClimatePolitical Economy and Conflict
Theisen (JPR, 2012) recently constructed a novel high-resolution data set of intergroup and political conflict in Kenya (1989-2004) and examined whether the risk of conflict onset and incidence resp
The Potential of Rapid Screening Methods for Schistosoma Mansoni in Western Kenya
Simon Brooker, Edward A. Miguel, Polycarp Waswa, Robert Namunyu, Sylvie Moulin, Helen Guyatt, and Donald A.P. Bundy
2001
Published Paper
African DevelopmentHealthEducation and Human Capital
Data from 46 schools in western Kenya were used to investigate the performance of school-based questionnaires, on reported blood in stool and water-contact patterns, as indicators of the prevalence
Epidemiology of Single and Multiple Species of Helminth Infections Among School Children in Busia District, Kenya
Simon Brooker, Edward A. Miguel, Sylvie Moulin, Alfred I. Louba, Donald A.P. Bundy, and Michael Kremer
2000
Published Paper
African DevelopmentHealthEducation and Human Capital
OBJECTIVE: To describe the patterns of single and multiple helminth infection in school children from Busia District, Kenya.
DESIGN: A cross-sectional school survey using a randomly selected sampl
Anaemia in Schoolchildren in Eight Countries in Africa and Asia
Andrew Hall, Emily Bobrow, Simon Brooker, Matthew Jukes, Kate Nokes, Jane Lambo, Helen Guyatt, Don Bundy, Sam Adjei, Su-Tung Wen, Satoto, Hertanto Subagio, Mohammed Zen Rafiluddin, Ted Miguel, Sylvie
2001
Published Paper
HealthEducation and Human Capital
OBJECTIVE: To report on the haemoglobin concentrations and prevalence of anaemia in schoolchildren in eight countries in Africa and Asia.
DESIGN: Blood samples were collected during surveys o
Economic Shocks and Democratization in Africa
Manuel Barron, Edward Miguel and Shanker Satyanath
2013
Published Paper
African DevelopmentEnvironment and ClimatePolitical Economy and Conflict
The literature on the determinants of democratization was long dominated by a view that claimed a central role for economic development (“modernization”). Acemoglu et al. (2008, 2009) ha