Axel Dreher
@DreherAxel
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Professor of International and Development Politics @UniHeidelberg and Editor of RIO. Affiliated with @The_PEIO, @AidData, @cepr_org. #china #aid #firstgen
Joined January 2013
How can we measure informal influence of leaders’ unelected spouses? We use our Geocoded ODA Data (GODAD) to test whether sub-national regions where leaders’ spouses are born receive more aid. They do - from European donors, the US, China! Paper and data: https://t.co/9I9M80abwU
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As the US steps back from leading in global governance institutions, China has increasingly stepped into leadership roles, serving as head of WHO, FAO, and other important UN agencies in recent years. In new (open access!) work with @rachelhulvey in @The_PEIO, we ask: why? 1/5
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We are releasing the 2024 version of our dataset in "China Visits: a Dataset of Chinese Leaders' Foreign Visits" @The_PEIO . The dataset should be useful to scholars in #InternationalRelations #InternationalPoliticalEconomy Harvard Dataverse: https://t.co/jd75DffOuG
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Another call for better aid reporting. Axel Dreher says we should distinguish & report separately on: 1. Humanitarian aid 2. Global public goods 3. Development aid https://t.co/uwXhyF1hNp
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Deadline for PEIO 2026: September 30.
Join us for the Political Economy of International Organization Conference (@The_PEIO) at IE University in Segovia, Spain, January 29-31, 2026. Submission is now open at https://t.co/mYLc0YJHSA. Thanks @nikkon7 for hosting!
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Some of my thoughts on how to reform foreign aid in @ChinaDaily: https://t.co/dn18XlwCbR (uncensored version here: https://t.co/DhSiVNTM3p)
global.chinadaily.com.cn
Foreign aid isn't dying; it's in deep trouble. Just look at Seville, where the United States — the world's largest development donor not long ago — didn't even bother to send a delegation to the...
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When aid kills: How foreign assistance can fuel political violence @DreherAxel, Jingke Pan @UniHeidelberg, Christina Schneider @UCSanDiego @UCSDEcon
https://t.co/VkhzR0Pb12
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New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20389 Foreign Aid and Targeted Political Violence @DreherAxel @UniHeidelberg @KOFETH_en, Jingke Pan @UniHeidelberg, Christina Schneider @UCSanDiego
https://t.co/uvzvZfaqiP
#CEPR_DE #CEPR_PoE #EconTwitter
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📢New deep-dive paper on China’s BRI lending (Georgetown/AidData/Kiel). We study "How China Collateralizes" its overseas loans — not with ports/infrastructure, but with cash in Chinese bank accounts. The techniques and volumes are striking.🧵Paper here: https://t.co/1gdbQFcUjb
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We are kicking off our 7th CefES Conference on European Economics & Politics! Featuring keynote addresses by Lyana Mosley (@Princeton) and Massimo Morelli (@Bocconi) @CefesCenter @unimib @SilviaMarches12 @DreherAxel
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📢 Excited to share the program for the 7th Annual CefES Conference on the Economics and Politics of Europe, hosted by @CefesCenter and @unimib on June 12–13! 🎤 Keynote speakers: Massimo Morelli, @Bocconi Layna Mosley, @PrincetonSPIA 📄 Program 👇 https://t.co/LmbkwxZgjn
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Submitting your paper to the 15th edition of #EconomicsOfGlobalInteractions, this year September 8-9. Keynote speakers: Paola Conconi (Oxford) and Axel Dreher (Heidelberg). Deadline for submissions: May 25. @rjhagen @KBjorvatn
uniba.it
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Study #Development #Economics in #Göttingen! We accept applications for our Master of students with either citizenship or Bachelor from EU/EEA countries until May 15. More info: https://t.co/ie7j7lEr7c.
@wiwigoettingen @uniGoettingen @CeMIS_unigoe
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📢New working paper with @borusyak: "Optimal Formula Instruments"! We derive the most powerful recentered IVs for treatments given by complex formulas, and propose an algorithm for approximating them in practice This approach yields *huge* power gains, relative to a
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Heute ist ein sehr trauriger Tag für alle Aktiven, Ehemaligen und Freunde der ifo Niederlassung Dresden. Mit Unverständnis sehe ich die Kürzungen des Freistaats in der Wissenschaft. Die VWL-Standort an der TU Dresden schrumpft damit weiter. 1/ https://t.co/JUQk5u2uwp.
mdr.de
In Dresden analysieren Experten des Wirtschaftsinstituts ifo die ostdeutschen Bundesländer. Weil der Freistaat spart und seinen Finanzierungbeitrag gekürzt hat, zieht nun das Institut Konsequenzen.
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The Review of International Organizations invites papers using geocoded data on foreign aid for a special issue “Analyzing Global Development with the Geocoded Official Development Assistance Dataset (GODAD).” See https://t.co/jQ9p4OtFWT,
https://t.co/DJcYX0dHZD
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Aid is about to be weaponised. The hard-nosed enforcers of the emerging approach are willing to sacrifice spending that did lots of good
economist.com
For decades, officials have promised to raise economic growth. For decades, they have failed
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The RIO allows manuscripts rejected at APSR, IO, ISQ to be transferred to RIO (and v.v.). Interested in discussing the draft of RIO’s transfer policy? Share your thoughts and suggstions for improvement: https://t.co/0vjqaryvQV,
@The_PEIO, @IntOrgJournal, @ISQ_Jrnl, @apsrjournal
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And, in rapid succession, The Invisible Hand(out) is now available @OUPAcademic or Amazon. Get your library to pre-order & we'll use the royalties to split a Coke! (Book workshop members, you get a full Coke - on the house) https://t.co/4zI7kJ6xk3
https://t.co/J9D29Glyy4
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Some thoughts on the suspension of USAID in an interview with @wiwo: https://t.co/6NsaN3yf5f (in German)
wiwo.de
Wie effektiv ist die westliche Entwicklungshilfe an den globalen Süden? Der Entwicklungsökonom Axel Dreher fordert neue Konzepte - und gibt Donald Trump in einer Sache recht.
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Join us for the Political Economy of International Organization Conference (@The_PEIO) at IE University in Segovia, Spain, January 29-31, 2026. Submission is now open at https://t.co/mYLc0YJHSA. Thanks @nikkon7 for hosting!
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