The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of … aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter …

International donors usually have particular goals they want to achieve with their foreign aid, for example, poverty … alleviation. In the international aid story lobbying by potential recipient groups attempting to capture the donor's support play …

We investigate whether estimates of the effect of aid on growth are influenced by authors' careers. We collect data on … on the reported magnitude of aid effectiveness, and on the degree of selectivity in which results are reported. On … with aid agencies. …

International donors usually have particular goals they want to achieve with their foreign aid, for example, poverty … alleviation. In the international aid story lobbying by potential recipient groups attempting to capture the donor’s support play …

The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of … aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter …

As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that … politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of … - are no more likely, on average, to get a negative quality rating than other projects. When aid is given to Security …

generalized by disaggregation of ODA into its underlying types. The results show that, humanitarian aid and loan-type aid turn out … that there is a two-stage decision making process in aid provision. In the first stage, a humanitarian purpose of aid …

We investigate the impact of health aid on infant mortality conditional on the quality of governance in 96 recipient … countries. Our analysis applies the long difference estimator and instrumental variable estimation, with aid instrumented by … donor government fractionalization interacted with the probability of allocating health aid to a recipient nation. The …

This paper evaluates the effect of development project aid from the World Bank and China on firms' sales growth, using …, Chinese ODA projects increase, on average, firm sales and, compared to sector-specific, Chinese region-specific aid positively … affect firm performance. Finally, we show that the positive effect of Chinese aid is stronger for firms lacking transport …

-born politicians have higher recognition rates and offer more aid to refugees. Our findings remain robust for different outcome …