The Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER) is provides small donor funded Dissertation Research Awards to aid in research by UC Berkeley Graduate Students in the Ph.D. programs in Agricultural & Resource Economics, Business, Demography, Economics, and Public Policy. The maximum award is $1,000. Grants may be used to cover out-of-pocket expenses associated with gathering data or conducting interviews in support of a Ph.D. dissertation.

Here is a list of the 2008/2009 Spring Semester IBER Dissertation Research Award Recipients:

Lorenzt Kung (Economics) "Measuring Changes in Expected Tax Rates Using Bond Prices "

Savet Hong (Demography) "Family formation and Child Well-Being in the Cambodian Context "

Sebastien Betermier (Business) "Consumption, Portfolio Choice, and Asset Prices in the Presence of Housing"

Justin Tumlinson & Deepak Hedge (Business) "Ethnicity Driven Offshore Investment "

Mary Kate Stimmler (Business) "RIsk Framing within Finance"

Sarath Sanga (Economics) "An Evaluation of Dharvi Slum Redevelopment Project"

Owen Ozier (Economics) "Long-term Effects of Early Childhood De-Worming"

Elizaveta Petrova (AgEcon) "Determinants of HIV Testing in Malawi"

Dan Acland & Vinci Chow (Economics) "Behavioral and Psychological Factors in Online Game Playing"

Jeremiah Dittmar (Economics) "Demographic and Economic Geogrpahy in Israel"

Alex Rothenberg (Economics)"Distributional Consequences of Infrastructure Improvements"

To view past years' recipients, please choose the year from the list below
08/09Spr 08/09Fall 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998