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Eric N. Mvukiyehe, Assistant Professor of Political Science  

Email Address: eric.mvukiyehe@duke.edu
Web Page: https://ericmvukiyehe.com/

Areas of Expertise

    Education:
    Ph.D., Columbia University, 2014

    Teaching (Spring 2025):

    • Polsci 364.01, Violence, repression, crime Synopsis
      Bio sci 155, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM
    • Polsci 760s.01, Core in sec, peace & conflict Synopsis
      Gross hall 105, M 03:20 PM-05:50 PM
    • Pubpol 790.07, Special topics in idp Synopsis
      See instru , TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

    Recent Publications   (More Publications)

    1. Bagga, A; Holmlund, M; Khan, N; Mani, S; Mvukiyehe, E; Premand, P. "Do Public Works Programs Have Sustained Impacts? A Review of Experimental Studies from LMICs." The World Bank Research Observer (December, 2024). [doi]  [abs]
    2. Brandily, P; Mvukiyehe, E; Smets, L; van der Windt, P; Verpoorten, M. "From Workfare to Economic and Sociopolitical Stability? Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Eastern Congo." The World Bank Economic Review (October, 2024). [doi]  [abs]
    3. Gazeaud, J; Khan, N; Mvukiyehe, E; Sterck, O. "With or without him? Experimental evidence on cash grants and gender-sensitive trainings in Tunisia." Journal of Development Economics 165 (October, 2023). [doi]  [abs]
    4. Gazeaud, J; Mvukiyehe, E; Sterck, O. "CASH TRANSFERS AND MIGRATION: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL." Review of Economics and Statistics 105.1 (January, 2023): 143-157. [doi]  [abs]
    5. Croke, K; Coville, A; Mvukiyehe, E; Dohou, CJ; Zibika, J-P; Stanus Ghib, L; Andreottola, M; Bokasola, YL; Quattrochi, JP. "Effects of a community-driven water, sanitation, and hygiene programme on COVID-19 symptoms, vaccine acceptance and non-COVID illnesses: A cluster-randomised controlled trial in rural Democratic Republic of Congo.." Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH 27.9 (September, 2022): 795-802. [doi]  [abs]

    Highlight:

    I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Duke University (tenure track.) My academic and policy research cut across many topics and contexts, including on: (i) reducing poverty and promoting socioeconomic welfare and psychological wellbeing for the poor and at-risk youth; (ii) political economy of conflict, peacebuilding and development in fragile and war-torn countries; (iii) strengthening state capacity in fragile states through reforming the civil service and traditional institutions; and (iv) promoting women’s empowerment through socioeconomic inclusion and political participation. I have also been conducting (v) COVID-19 research, leveraging previous or ongoing research to in investigate how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected businesses as well as households’ welfare and well-being in efforts to help inform policies and strategies to mitigate the pandemic’s deleterious effects.

    Prior to joining the Duke Faculty, I was an Economist at the World Bank’s Development Economics Vice-Presidency (DEC), in its Development Impact Evaluation Department (DIME), where I helped establish and led the Evidence for Peace (E4P) program. This is an innovative research program on Fragility, Conflict and Violence (FCV) whose main goal was to provide evidence-based guide to policy action and projects’ mid-course correction, while addressing critical knowledge gaps identified in the World Development Report (WDR) 2014 (see E4P/FCV program blurb here). At its peak, the E4P program a portfolio of over 40 impact evaluation studies, which covers over $2.5 billion of FCV operations in 25 countries and has about $35 million in research funding. I was also the World Bank’s Institutional Representative at the Experiments in Governance and Politics (EGAP), a global research, evaluation, and learning network that promotes rigorous knowledge accumulation, innovation, and evidence-based policy in various governance and accountability domains.

    Prior to joining DEC/DIME, I worked in the Word Bank’s Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL), where I provided technical assistance in the design and implementation of gender programs in Sub-Saharan Africa. I was also a Democracy Fellow with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), where I developed rigorous impact evaluations and analytical work of US Government programs in the Democracy, Human Rights and Governance (DRG) sector. Finally, prior to joining the World Bank, I consulted for the United Nations (UN) Secretariat, where I led impact evaluations of UN peacekeeping operations in Cote d’Ivoire and Liberia using local population surveys, as part of a broader evaluation of these operations’ performance by the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS).

    I hold a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University (2014), with focus on international security/relations, political economy, and comparative politics. I have taught, given talks and written extensively about the aforementioned research areas for many years and my research has been published in the Journal of Development Economics (JDE); the Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat); the BMJ Global Health; the Quarterly Journal of Political Science (QJPS); the World Politics (WP); the World Development (WD); the Journal of Conflict Resolution (JCR); the Journal of Peace Research (JPR); and the Comparative Political Studies (CPS), among other outlets.

    Eric N. Mvukiyehe