How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

By E. Werker, Faisal Z. Ahmed, Charles Cohen. 2009

186 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Development, Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems

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In Development

1. Faisal Z. Ahmed
2. Matthew S. Winters
3. Joseph G Wright
4. J. Wallace
5. Edmund J. Malesky

In Economics and Econometrics

1. Joseph G Wright
2. Faisal Z. Ahmed
3. Matthew S. Winters
4. J. Wallace
5. Edmund J. Malesky

In Information Systems

1. Faisal Z. Ahmed
2. Matthew S. Winters
3. Joseph G Wright

Citations in the corpus

• Aid and Growth at the Regional Level (2015, unknown): “…with a recipient region’s probability to receive aid, following recent identification strategies in the country-level literature on aid effectiveness (Werker et al., 2009; Ahmed, 2013; Nunn and Qian, 2014; Chauvet and Ehrhart, 2014; Dreher 9Chauvet and Ehrhart (2014) employ the World Bank’s…”
• Counting Chickens when they Hatch: Timing and the Effects of Aid on Growth* (2012, unknown): “Werker et al. (2009) use oil prices to instrument for aid flows from Gulf donors to predominantly Muslim aid-recipient countries.”
• Elite Capture of Foreign Aid: Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts (2020, unknown): “A large literature studies how aid is spent (Werker, Ahmed, and Cohen 2009), how it is absorbed in the domestic economy (Temple and vande Sijpe 2017), andhow much it ultimately stimulates growth (Dalgaard, Hansen, and Tarp 2004), improves human development outcomes (Boone 1996), and reduces poverty…”
• Making Progress on Foreign Aid (2015, unknown): “For example, Werker et al (2009) show that large transfers from OPEC countries to poorer Muslim countries increases consumption and unaccounted transfers of funds out of the recipient country.”
• The Perils of Unearned Foreign Income: Aid, Remittances, and Government Survival (2012, background): “…foreign income remained high through the early 1980s, and then began to fall as the price of oil 13 In separate studies, this natural experimental setting has been used to study the effect of remittances on corruption (Ahmed 2010a) and aid on economic development (Werker, Ahmed, and Cohen 2009).”
• The effect of aid on growth: evidence from a Quasi-experiment (2014, unknown): “For example, Werker et al. (2009) use the political connections between OPEC countries and other Islamic countries and changes in oil prices to identify how aid money is spent.”
• Can the West Save Africa (2008, unknown): “Werker et al 2008 is a recent paper that seems to have a believable and original identifi cation strategy (aid from OPEC members to their poor Muslim allies, with the instrument being the price of oil interacted with a Muslim dummy).”
• The Politics of Effective Foreign Aid (2010, background): “Similarly, Neumayer (2005) finds that food aid in the 1990s is largely driven by recipients’ need and not by donors’ strategic interests, and Winters (2009) shows that the World Bank varies the types of projects that countries receive according to their governance characteristics.”
• Aid and growth: New evidence using an excludable instrument (2020, unknown): “33 Werker et al. (2009) find aid from Arab donors to be consumed rather than invested in large parts.”
• Aid on Demand: African Leaders and the Geography of China's Foreign Assistance (2015, unknown): “8For an exception (on Arab donors), see Werker et al. (2009).”