Axel Dreher
@DreherAxel
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Professor of International and Development Politics @UniHeidelberg and Editor of RIO. Affiliated with @The_PEIO, @AidData, @cepr_org. #china #aid #firstgen
Joined January 2013
How can we measure informal influence of leaders’ unelected spouses? We use our Geocoded ODA Data (GODAD) to test whether sub-national regions where leaders’ spouses are born receive more aid. They do - from European donors, the US, China! Paper and data:
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RT @leightjessica: *Extremely* timely EDCC article #econtwitter #econsky about effectiveness of foreign aid in building soft power. . .for…
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RT @parizek_m: No better time to attend Political Economy of IOs @The_PEIO conference @Harvard_GovDept than the week when 2nd Trump presid…
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RT @MSWinters1: And a new Economic Development and Cultural Change paper by @elwellner @DreherAxel @fuchs_andreas Parks and @AustinMStrange…
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RT @a_presbitero: In a new @voxeu column, @RobertaRab, @vito_am and I show that, by lowering trade costs, Chinese infrastructure loans are…
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RT @vox_dev: 🔊 Designing cities in developing countries: Land planning, slum upgrading and reconstruction programmes Last month on VoxDevT…
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RT @haozhang328: 🥁CFA! Sichen, Zarlasht, I are organizing a GVC workshop sponsored by @NiehausCenter. The submission link with more details…
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RT @chriswratil: Job alert 🚨! Six-year postdoc position at our department. If you do research that is somehow connected to what we do at th…
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RT @jrgptrs: The pilot replicability assessment for our large meta-replication project is out in Q Open, offering some interesting insights…
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RT @vox_dev: 🆕 Behavioural strategies to reduce teacher sorting in Peru Today on VoxDev, new article by @Nicolas_Ajz @mcgillu, @ele_berto…
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RT @dmckenzie001: Job market series 2024 Wrap-up: We just finished our series of 26 posts by development economics PhD students on the job…
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RT @AustinMStrange: New article (open access!) 🚨 in @JUrbanEcon (w/ @EconBluhm, @DreherAxel, @fuchs_andreas, Parks, and @MikeTierneyIR): "…
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RT @MikeTierneyIR: Nice to see this in print in @JUrbanEcon! How do official Chinese-funded infrastructure projects diffuse economic activ…
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RT @MikeTierneyIR: Seven-year gestation period must be some kind of record. Grateful for the patience and thoughtfulness of @AustinMStrange…
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RT @heinkelmannwild: Unser Beitrag stützt sich auf unsere Forschung zu den de-eskalierenden Effekten von Verhinderungsmacht in multilateral…
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RT @Miehdahl: Xi Jinping visits Peru this week for the APEC summit & the launch of Chancay port - one of China’s largest infrastructure inv…
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RT @valentin_lang: Our paper on the ideological biases of international bureaucrats is now published in the #AJPS. @AJPS_Editor We use in…
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RT @elwellner: My second PhD paper is out in the #AJPS! Big thank you to my fantastic coauthors @valentin_lang and @Kentikelenis, I've le…
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