Robert Marty

Research Assistant

Summary

Rob Marty served as a Research Assistant at AidData from 2014-2017. With AidData researchers, he worked to develop a methodology to incorporate spatial imprecision into regression analyses, and examined the impact of World Bank projects on reducing deforestation. In 2014, he worked as an AidData Summer Fellow with the Economic Policy Research Center in Uganda. Rob holds a joint Master of Science and Master of Public Policy, and a BA in Public Policy from William & Mary.

Education

Background

July 28, 2015

Reducing extreme poverty in the post-MDG era: Lessons from four emerging economies

The last 15 years has shown that trends in growth, poverty reduction, and the link between the two have varied widely among countries. Four key lessons collectively point to the need to look beyond the usual metrics and beyond growth entirely.

January 28, 2015

Leveraging Aid for Trade Capacity in Uganda

A recent study funded by the Economic Policy Research Center in Kampala, Uganda looks at how aid-for-trade disbursements align with Uganda’s national development priorities and the impact of trade-related aid on the country’s capacity to trade.

July 10, 2014

Taking the Health Aid Debate to the Subnational Level

Macro-level studies largely condemn health aid as ineffective or minimally effective in the aggregate. Most of the praise for health aid comes from project-level analyses. It may be time to rethink the way we’re analyzing these relationships.

Journal Article

Foreign Aid and Soft Power: Great Power Competition in Africa in the Early Twenty-first Century

British Journal of Political Science

Robert A. Blair, Robert Marty, Philip Roessler

2021-07-05

Working Paper

Foreign Aid and Soft Power: Great Power Competition in Africa in the Early 21st Century

Robert A. Blair, Robert Marty, Philip Roessler

2019-08-22

Journal Article

Assessing the Causal Impact of Chinese Aid on Vegetative Land Cover in Burundi and Rwanda Under Conditions of Spatial Imprecision

Development Engineering

Robert Marty, Seth Goodman, Michael Le Few, Carrie Dolan, Ariel BenYishay, Daniel Runfola

2018-11-23

Working Paper

geoSIMEX: A Generalized Approach To Modeling Spatial Imprecision

Daniel Runfola, Robert Marty, Seth Goodman, Michael Lefew, Ariel BenYishay

2017-04-01

Journal Article

A Top-Down Approach to Estimating Spatially Heterogeneous Impacts of Development Aid on Vegetative Carbon Sequestration

Sustainability

Daniel Runfola, Ariel BenYishay, Jeffery Tanner, Graeme Buchanan, Jyoteshwar Nagol, Matthias Leu, Seth Goodman, Rachel Trichler, Robert Marty

2017-03-09

Journal Article

Taking the health aid debate to the subnational level: the impact and allocation of foreign health aid in Malawi

BMJ Global Health

Robert Marty, Carrie B Dolan, Matthias Leu, Daniel Runfola

2017-01-11

Working Paper

Sub-national Perspectives on Aid Effectiveness: Impact of Aid on Health Outcomes in Uganda

Tonny Odokonyero, Alex Ijjo, Robert Marty, Tony Muhumuza, Godfrey Owot Moses

2015-12-03