Claudia Williamson

- Associate Professor of Economics, Mississippi State University, Co-Director, Institute for Market Studies, Mississippi State University, Drew Allen Endowed Fellow, Mississippi State University, Affiliated Scholar
Claudia Williamson is an associate professor of economics, Drew Allen Endowed Fellow, and Co-Director of the Institute for Market Studies at Mississippi State University. Claudia is also an affiliated scholar with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. She was previously an assistant professor of economics at Appalachian State University and a post-doctoral fellow at the Development Research Institute at the New York University. Her main research interests lie at the intersection of applied economic development and political economy. Claudia completed her PhD in economics from West Virginia University and was a Mercatus Center Visiting Dissertation Fellow.
For a current list of publications, view Claudia's personal website.
Publications & Appearances
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Are Aid Agencies Changing their Practices?
Using data from 2004 to 2008−2012, we provide the first multi‐year agency monitoring of Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
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Trust, Regulation, and Contracting Institutions
This paper demonstrates that trust directly influences contracting efficiency. We document that trust reduces demand for
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Lessons on Foreign Aid and Economic Development
A response to the pressing need to address and clarify the substantial ambiguity within current literature, this edited volume

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Aid Allocation and Outcomes
And extensive literature has emerged in both economics and political science that investigates political motivations behind aid

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Can Foreign Aid Promote Political and Economic Freedom?
Political and economic freedom are seen as values in themselves, are associated with increases in quality of life across many

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An Empirical Examination of Institutions and Cross-Country Incarceration Rates
Research converges upon institutional explanations for why some countries incarcerate more prisoners than others. The types of
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The Path of Reform
The new institutional literature widely acknowledges the benefits of growth‐enhancing institutions but rarely discusses the path
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Aid, Policies, and Growth
We revisit the highly debated aid‐policy‐growth association. Our results overturn Burnside and Dollar's original findings by
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Open Borders for Business?
While an extensive literature examines the regulation of entry by domestic firms, the causes and consequences of the regulation
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The Punitive Consequences of Organizational Structures in England, France, and the United States
We develop a framework for understanding how legal structures relate to imprisonment. We hypothesize that relatively more