Faculty Features

Climate adaptation efforts being carried out across the Global South will be collated to help shape future climate protection.

New research will equip policy makers and scholars with data on how climate change is shaping politics in the Global South.

Multi-year datasets from the King Center’s African Urbanization and Development Research Initiative continue to inform research and policy insights in Ethiopia and Côte d’Ivoire.

King Center Faculty Affiliate Alessandra Voena finds a rift between what people believe and what they think others believe about certain policies meant to empower women.

King Center Faculty Affiliate and Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Claudia Allende Santa Cruz is studying health behaviors in Chile.

Professor Lisa Blaydes examines the treatment of migrant domestic workers in Arab Gulf states as part of the King Center’s initiative on gender-based violence.

"I came to this realization that nothing was going to work in economic development if the government wasn’t functioning."

In the first real-world test of a tool pioneered at Stanford to better evaluate anti-poverty policies, a new study shows the economic benefits of expanding electricity access.

"To me, discovering curiosity and generosity — that’s at the heart of scholarship."

Members of the Stanford Human Trafficking Data Lab work to uncover ways in which politically connected predators of human trafficking often avoid punishment.

Tapsoba, a King Center Visiting Professor, talks about factors that affect household living standards in sub-Saharan Africa.

Historical disparities can affect access to public services today, research by King Center Visiting Professor Belinda Archibong shows.

In 2021, Faculty Affiliate Desiree LaBeaud and her colleagues launched the nonprofit organization HERI-Kenya to reduce the spread of mosquito-borne diseases in Kenya.

A team of researchers have created a machine-learning tool to encourage the development of new ways to measure progress on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

A panel of experts discussed technology's vast potential to promote public health and its many challenges

Alfredo J. Artiles has long studied what he calls “the dual nature of disability."

A new paper in Science by King Center researchers documents progress in using satellite imagery and machine learning techniques to study development trends.

The Stanford Human Trafficking Data Lab conducts critical research using promising innovations in modern data science.

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic caused a sharp decline in living standards and rising food insecurity in developing countries across the globe.

A remediation and public education effort at an abandoned battery recycling facility in Bangladesh eliminated most lead soil contamination.

The King Center’s David Lobell and Soledad Artiz Prillaman focus their research on food security and political representation in India.

A new multidisciplinary initiative convenes researchers across Stanford's campus and in Brazil to secure localized, high-quality data to fight human trafficking.

Stanford researchers involved with the Data for Development initiative harness satellite imagery and AI to help fight poverty in Africa.

As a scientist bent on addressing the global sanitation crisis, Faculty Affiliate William Tarpeh is not fazed by urine or excrement.

Faculty Affiliate Soledad Artiz Prillaman focuses her research on women’s participation in local politics.

Political scientist and Faculty Affiliate Saad Gulzar dives into his background and research in Pakistan.

Stanford economist and Faculty Affiliate Pete Klenow uses microdata from firms to understand the underlying mechanisms behind economic growth in economies.

Seema Jayachandran, the Noosheen Hashemi Visiting Professor at the King Center, discusses how she utilizes randomized controlled trials to identify the root causes of poverty.

Some spice processors in Bangladesh use an industrial lead chromate pigment to imbue turmeric with a bright yellow color prized for curries and other traditional dishes.

Faculty Affiliate Lawrence Goulder is collaborating with researchers in China, who aim to implement a new emissions trading system meant to drastically reduce carbon dioxide.

Faculty Affiliate Jennifer Pan speaks about her career and new, data-driven methods for tracking social media to identify nascent political movements happening offline.

Director Grant Miller and his fellow researchers find that a policy enacted by American presidents opposing abortion results in less funding for family planning and birth control.

Rising labor costs, an aging population and government policies are reshaping Chinese manufacturing. Hongbin Li is on a singular mission to understand how that’s happening.

Faculty Affiliate Aruna Ranganathan finds that the retention of first time women workers in textile factories in India is higher if the women receive training.

Solomon Hsiang, the Noosheen Hashemi Visiting Scholar at the King Center, combines data with mathematical models to understand the economic effects of climate change.

Faculty Affiliate Melanie Morten found that the policies that led to a partial wall between the U.S. and Mexico had a negative economic effect.

Saad Gulzar, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Faculty Affiliate, shares more about his background and research agenda.

A team led by Faculty Affiliate Jenna Davis created a container-based toilet that is being adopted in various countries where the urban poor lack access to safe sanitation.

The large-scale China Employer-Employee Survey (CEES) gathers high quality, in-depth data on firms and workers in China

The new Stanford course Data for Sustainable Development introduces students to new methods of using machine learning and satellite technology.

After nearly a decade, Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom returns to find that a previous management intervention has had long-term impact on performance in trial textile firms.

Pascaline Dupas’ lesson plan for teaching Kenyan teenagers about HIV infection risks in cross-generational relationships has been scaled up in hundreds of schools.

Helping guide transformation of the global palm oil sector by developing strategies to sustain industry growth.

Grant Miller and colleagues want to end wide-spread anemia in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu by working with the government to introduce a new kind of fortified rice.

In a world where the mercury is rising, Marshall Burke examines how warming temperatures will affect global output.

Accurate and reliable information on the location of impoverished areas is surprisingly lacking for much of the world.

Pollution is often accepted as an unavoidable cost of China's industrial and economic boom. But Li is proving that trade-off is shaving years from people’s lives.

Stanford researchers have determined that more than 15 million children are living in high-mortality areas across 28 sub-Saharan African countries.

In light of burgeoning international trade, Faculty Affiliate Nick Bloom provides the first evidence on the importance of management practices for firm’s export performance.

Judith Goldstein finds that, contrary to what has long been believed, the idea that multilateral deals are negotiated to the benefit of all member countries is false.

Stephen Haber looks at finance, innovation, and climate and geography to explain why only some countries become rich and democratic.

This information vacuum is a reason why low-income countries with democratic elections struggle.

Bloom provides insights into intractable mysteries in international economics as they relate to management practices and their impact on business innovation and productivity.

Research led by SCID Director Grant Miller found that abortion rates rose in sub-Saharan Africa when U.S. funding was restricted.