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.