Hillary G. Corwin, Ph.D.
Political Economist and Quantitative Researcher
Hillary G. Corwin, Ph.D.
Political Economist and Quantitative Researcher
About Me
Her research applies advanced econometric and causal inference methods to understand complex interactions between international development, human rights, and political economy. Her dissertation, titled “Coercive and Catalytic Strategies for Promoting Human Rights,” investigates how OECD donors choose between strategic options for promoting human rights. In it, she argues that donors’ strategic choices are determined by how state violence and their policy response affects their interests and whether leaders in the recipient state are actively pursuing outside options for development finance. Her research has been published in World Development.
Research
Coercive and catalytic strategies for human rights promotion: State violence and foreign assistance
Hillary Corwin
World Development, vol. 167, 2023, p. 106277
Hillary Corwin
The University of Texas at Austin, 2023
Projects
Ph.D. Thesis Data Preparation and Analysis
This provides a broad overview of the dissertation project and links out to a series of associated projects that went into the data preparation, visualization, and analysis for the dissertation.
Preparing the Data for the Disseration
Cleaning and merging important variables and creating the key independent variables of interest.
Analyzing the relationship between state violence and foreign aid
Tobit and OLS models of the relationships between state violence and foreign aid flows.
The effect of Belt and Road Initiative agreements on western foreign aid
This project uses doubly-robust difference-in-difference models with multiple treatment periods to investigate how the 80 BRI agreements signed from 2013-2018 affect the composition of western donors' foreign aid.
Teaching
The United States in Global Politics
Assistant Instructor (Instructor of Record)
In-person undergraduate course using collective action theory to trace the role of the United States in building and participating in international organizations and agreements. Topics include economic integration, migration, and collective security.
Human Rights and World Politics
Teaching Assistant
Online upper-division undergraduate course examining human rights in contemporary world politics. The course focuses on the legal, political, and policy dimensions of international human rights through the United Nations.
International Political Economy
Teaching Assistant
In-person, upper-division undergraduate course covering the politics of international trade, investment, and multinational corporations.
Supplemental Instructor and Teaching Assistant
Online undergraduate course covering U.S. grand strategy, great power politics, domestic and international institutions, and an historical overview of U.S. foreign policy from independence to present.
United States National Security
Teaching Assistant
Online lower-division undergraduate course (2000 students) covering U.S. foreign policies and military actions in the countries of Southwest Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa from 1979-2021.
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