CAREER: Culture, Context, and Development Policy: An Interdisciplinary Research and Training Program

职业：文化、背景和发展政策：跨学科研究和培训项目

• 批准号: 2238314
• 负责人: Sara Lowes
• 金额: $ 53.52万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2028-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2238314&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Culture; Context; Development; Policy

This CAREER proposal uses four projects to study how culture interacts with policy to affect development outcomes. Culture has important implications for a wide variety of outcomes, including governance, human capital investment, and the scope and extent of cooperation. Economists have sought to understand the drivers of variation in culture, and the consequences of various cultural practices for key economic outcomes. The theme of this CAREER project is that insights from anthropology, culture, and local context can help explain differences in development policy success across countries and if appropriately used, may improve the design and effectiveness of development policies. The first project studies how to improve accountability and performance of local leaders; the second studies how a mismatch between indigenous institutions and development initiatives hinders the success of such initiatives, while the third project studies how social structures affect insurance and cooperation. The final project digitizes a new, large, and innovative ethnographic data for many developing countries that will be one of the few data sets of its kind. The results of this project will improve the efficiency of development policies, hence reduce poverty around the world. In addition, the results will help improve the effectiveness of US foreign aid programs, hence help the US maintain its global leadership in poverty reduction.The research consists of four projects to study how culture interacts with policy to explain the heterogeneity in development outcomes across countries as well as contribute to the literature in evolutionary anthropology. The projects combine a variety of methods: randomized controlled trials, lab-in-the-field experiments, original surveys, and digitization of archival and ethnographic data. The first project uses RCT to investigate whether social structures that increase accountability of local leaders can be leveraged to improve the provision of public goods. The second project provides new evidence on the ecological origins of private, relative to communal, land rights and explores how traditional property rights structures affect efforts to title land. The third project studies how matrilineal kinship systems affect cooperation and insurance in the extended family, expanding the traditional focus within economics on the nuclear family to extended kinship. The fourth project is an innovative data digitization effort to provide access to new ethnographic data for several developing countries. The results of these projects will provide insight into how culture affects the efficacy of development policy, and how greater understanding of local context can improve development initiatives. Besides improving development policy outcomes, the results will also help improve the effectiveness of US foreign aid.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该职业建议使用四个项目来研究文化如何与政策互动以影响发展成果。 文化对各种结果具有重要意义，包括治理，人力资本投资以及合作范围和范围。经济学家试图了解文化变化的驱动力，以及各种文化实践对关键经济成果的后果。这个职业项目的主题是，人类学，文化和当地环境的见解可以帮助解释各个国家的发展政策成功的差异，如果适当使用，可以提高发展政策的设计和有效性。 第一个项目研究如何改善当地领导人的问责制和绩效；第二个研究土著机构与发展计划之间的不匹配如何阻碍此类倡议的成功，而第三个项目研究社会结构如何影响保险与合作。最终项目将许多发展中国家的新，大型和创新的人种志数据数字化数字化，这将是同类数据集的少数数据集之一。 该项目的结果将提高发展政策的效率，从而减少世界各地的贫困。 此外，结果将有助于提高美国外国援助计划的有效性，因此有助于美国维持其在减贫方面的全球领导力。该研究由四个项目组成，这些项目旨在研究文化如何与政策相互作用，以解释各国发展成果的异质性，并为进化人类学的文献贡献。这些项目结合了多种方法：随机对照试验，现场实验，原始调查以及档案和人种志数据的数字化。第一个项目使用RCT调查是否可以利用增加当地领导人问责制的社会结构来改善公共物品的提供。第二个项目提供了有关私人的生态起源的新证据，相对于社区，土地权利，并探讨了传统的财产权结构如何影响授权土地的努力。第三个项目研究了母系亲属系统如何影响大家庭的合作与保险，从而扩大了经济学对核心家族的传统重点，以扩大亲属关系。第四个项目是创新的数据数字化工作，旨在为几个发展中国家提供新的人种学数据。这些项目的结果将为文化如何影响发展政策的功效以及对地方环境如何改善发展计划的更多了解。 除了改善发展政策成果外，结果还将有助于提高美国外国援助的有效性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准通过评估来支持的。