Announcements
Season’s Greetings from PDRI-DevLab!
PDRI-DevLab: Spring 2025 Workshop/Seminar Series
A Glimpse from the Second Forced Displacement Working Group Meeting
Summer Internship Application Now Open
2024 Fall Workshop/Seminar Series: Session 14, Dec 4
December 2024 PDRI-DevLab Newsletter Released
PDRI-DevLab Featured in OMNIA for Innovative Research in Global Policy Solutions
Fels Institute of Government Submatriculation Program for MPA
PDRI-DevLab Fall 2024 Workshop/Seminar Series: Session 12, November 20th
CASI Seminar: The Impact of Direct Benefit Transfers on Voter Engagement
PDRI-Devlab Fall 2024 Workshop/Seminar Series: Session 11, November 13
PDRI-DevLab Fall 2024 Workshop/Seminar Series: Session 10, November 6th
Wharton Urban and Real Estate Seminar: November 14th
PDRI-DevLab Fall 2024 Workshop/Seminar Series: Session 9, October 30th
Practice Job Talks: 10/31 and 11/1
PDRI-DevLab Fall Workshop/Seminar Series: Session 7, October 16
Grant Opportunities: Penn Global Dissertation Grants 2024 Now Open!
Fels Institute of Government: MPA in International Impact Evaluation
Climate@SAS
PDRI-DevLab Fall Workshop/Seminar Series: Session 6, October 9
PDRI-DevLab Fall Workshop/Seminar Series: Session 5, October 2
Keynote by Guy Grossman at the 3rd Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement Research Conference – Video Out Now!
PDRI-DevLab Fall Workshop/Seminar Series: Session 4, September 25th.
PDRI-DevLab Fall Workshop/Seminar Series: Session 3 September 18th
PDRI-DevLab Fall 2024 Workshop/Seminar Series: Session 2 September 11th
PDRI-DevLab Fall 2024 Workshop/Seminar Series: Session 1 September 4th
Applications for Predoctoral Fellowships Now Open
PDRI-DevLab Research Fellow Applications Are Open
Prof. Guy Grossman to keynote at the JDC’s 3rd Research Conference on Forced Displacement
PDRI-DevLab: Fall 2024 Workshop/Seminar Series
June 20: World Refugee Day
Inaugural Session of the Forced Displacement Working Group Hosted by PDRI-DevLab
May 2024 PDRI-DevLab Newsletter Released
PDRI Executive Director Heather Huntington Presents at 2024 USAID Agency Learning and Evidence Month Program
Forced Displacement Working Group: Inaugural Session
2024 PDRI-DevLab Graduate Student Research Grants – Announcement of recipient
Congratulations to Graduating PDRI-DevLab Fellows 2024!
Welcome Our Newest Pre-docs for 2024!
Joint Comparative Politics and PDRI DevLab Seminar: Yotam Margalit
IR Workshop: Do More Disaggregated Electoral Results Deter Aggregation Fraud?
The Political Economy of Development:
PDRI-DevLab Spring 2024 Workshop Series: Mateo Villamizar Chaparro
PDRI-DevLab accepting applications for predoctoral fellowship program
Dr. Thirumurthy, Dr. Buttenheim publish Lancet Global Health commentary on maximising the value of nudge units for global health
PDRI Academic Director Guy Grossman featured in Penn Today article
Dr. Thirumurthy publishes paper in Nature on the effects of cash transfers on mortality in low- and middle-income countries
2023 PDRI-DevLab Graduate Student Research Grants – Announcement of recipient
PDRI-DevLab Graduate Student Research Grants
2023 PDRI-DevLab Visiting Fellowship for African Scholars – Request for Applications
PDRI Co-Director Harsha Thirumurthy Promoted to Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy
2022 PDRI Conference on Climate Change & the Environment on May 12th – Register now!
PDRI affiliates receive support from the Penn Global Research and Engagement Grant Program
PDRI Webinar: Learning in a time of Covid-19: Emerging research from low- and middle- income countries
CALL FOR PAPERS: 2022 PDRI Conference on Climate Change & the Environment
Open Position: PDRI Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr. Harsha Thirumurthy offers four takeaways from his research exploring access to free HIV self-tests in Kenya
Looking at Community Policing in the Global South
Emily Hannum has been endowed as the Stanley I. Sheerr Term Professor in the Social Sciences
Call for Abstracts: CASI Graduate Student Workshop on Migration in India
PDRI Co-Director Guy Grossman receives Best Information Technology & Politics Article Award
PDRI Co-Director, Harsha Thirumurthy awarded NIH R01 for project in Kenya focusing on HIV & prize-linked savings
PDRI Fellow Alejandro Sánchez wins best student paper award
PDRI Fellow Sumitra Badrinathan wins Political Communication Best Paper Award
PDRI Affiliate Susanna Berkouwer publishes results from COVID-19 study in Kenya
PDRI Fellow Christiana Kallon Kelly selected as Harvard WAPPP Fellow
PDRI Fellow Shaquilla Harrigan awarded the inaugural Penn Presidential Fellowship
PDRI Fellow Jasmine Blanks Jones awarded the Laurie Wagman Award
Congratulations to graduating PDRI Fellows!
Thirumurthy publishes new JAMA Network Open article on effects of COVID-19 lockdown on LMICs
H. Thirumurthy publishes study in PLOS Medicine showing that financial incentives result in higher HIV retesting in Uganda
April PDRI newsletter released
Jere Behrman leads a new project funded by the African Economic Research Consortium
PDRI fellow Christiana Kallon Kelly awarded first-place prize in Penn’s 3 Minute Thesis
Harsha Thirumurthy publishes review article of HIV testing approaches in sub-Saharan Africa in The Lancet HIV
Open Position: Research Assistant for the Malawi Longitudinal Study for Families and Health (MLSFH)
PDRI affiliate Tulia Falleti has been awarded a Mellon Grant
PDRI affiliate Jere R. Behrman, has been ranked as a “Highly Cited Researcher”
PDRI fellow Jasmine Blanks Jones has been awarded a Health Policy Research Scholars grant
PDRI’s Academic Director Guy Grossman Appointed to the National Academy of Sciences Evidence ad hoc committee
LDI Senior Fellow Iliana Kohler won a National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Award
Post-doc Opening in Behavioral Economics & Global Health
Call for Proposals: PDRI Conference on Migration
Christiana Kallon Kelly awarded the GAPSA-Provost Fellowship
Alison Buttenheim appointed as Scientific Director of CHIBE
Post-doc Announcement: Research Fellowship in Global Health and Demography
Guy Grossman, Harsha Thirumurthy and Jonah Rexer published an op-ed piece in USA Today
Aidsmap recently featured the U=U study which encourages men in South Africa to test for HIV
Harsha Thirumurthy and Colleagues Published a New Paper Examining the Effect of Planning Prompts to Promote HIV Testing in Uganda
Can low-capacity governments work with local leaders to increase tax revenues?
Peace Scholar Fellowship granted to PDRI Fellow Meghan Garrity
Guy Grossman named Academic Lead for State Department funded $5.6 million IPA Human Trafficking Research Program
Why Indian Americans are not becoming Republicans anytime soon
Improving management through worker feedback: Auto-manufacturing in China
Harvard’s PhD candidate joins PDRI for the academic year
Political partisanship influences behavioral responses to governors’ recommendations for COVID-19 prevention in the United States
Alison Buttenheim discusses ethical implications of COVID-19 vaccine in Penn Today
Research by PDRI’s affiliate Susanna Berkouwer on energy efficiency adoption in Nairobi, Kenya was featured in the Chicago Booth Review
Tulia Falleti appointed Director of Penn Latin American and Latinx Studies Program
Alec Gershberg named Political Economy Research Lead for DFID-funded RISE program
Santiago Cunial awarded 2020-2021 Graduate Research Fellowship by Penn Environmental Humanities program
Guy Grossman Awarded JPAL Grant for COVID-19 work in Uganda
Apurva Bamezai selected as CASI Sobti Family Fellow 2020-2021
Sumitra Badrinathan selected as CASI Sobti Family Fellow 2020-2021
Dorothy Kronick and Nicolás Idrobo are featured in NY Times article discussing the disputed Bolivian elections
Sharon Wolf awarded World Bank SIEF Grant 2020-2021
Susanna Berkouwer featured in VoxDev discussing whether energy subsidies improve welfare in LMICs
Heather Schofield discusses key findings exploring how India is coping with the coronavirus in the Chicago Booth
Heather Schofield is featured in Indian Express discussing how India is coping with the coronavirus lockdown
Shaquilla Harrigan featured in the Penn Pandemic Diary discussing sociology in the time of COVID-19
Research by PDRI’s affiliate Susanna Berkouwer was cited as evidence in the Giving Green
Susanna Berkouwer’s work on rural electrification in Kenya featured in Economic Development & Institutions video
Susanna Berkouwer receives Best Paper Award from the International Association for Energy Economics
Guy Grossman’s work won 2019 APSA Best Book in Experimental Research award
Yue Hou’s article won 2019 Best Journal of Experimental Political Science award
Global Research & Internship Program 2025 Applications Now Open