organizations. We test this theory empirically by examining how the United States uses bilateral aid and IMF loans to buy other … 1960-2015 period, our results show that states allied with the US receive more bilateral aid when voting in line with the …

We introduce a new "supply-push" instrument for foreign aid, to be used together with an instrumental variable … estimator that filters out unobserved common factors. We use this instrument to study the effects of aid on macroeconomic ratios …, and especially the ratios of consumption, investment, imports and exports to GDP. We cannot reject the hypothesis that aid …

This paper explores the impact of foreign aid on economic growth using variation in aid inflows from natural disasters …. Because using a country's own disaster exposure as an instrument for aid inflows violates exogeneity assumptions, I instead … use the disaster exposure of a country's "aid neighbors," defined as its competitors for aid from donors. Using aid …