Overview

We contacted researchers in top development departments across universities, think tanks and multilateral organizations. The departments were selected based on RePEc's ranking for Development Economics, and include the first 15 departments listed (excluding NBER due to duplication). For the World Bank, only DECRG and DIME were included. For universities and think thanks, the email survey was sent to professors and researchers regardless of whether they did development economics or empirical research (some replies indicate that targeted respondents thought it was only for development economists due to the presentation of the survey).

Below are a summary table of the target population and the list of institutions targetted.

Target population and response rate

Category	N	Response rate
Professors/Institutions other than the World Bank	676	9%
WB - DECRG	65	27%
WB - DIME PIs	21	71%
WB - DIME RAs	40	63%
Total	802	13%

Institutions

University/Organization	Department
Berkeley	Economics
Brown	Economics
Georgetown	Economics
Harvard	Economics
Harvard Kennedy School	Development & Economic Growth
IDB	Research Department
IFPRI	Senior Research Staff
IMF	Research Department
LSE	Economics
MIT	Economics
Paris School of Economics
University of Chicago	Economics
University of Oxford	Economics
World Bank	DECIE
World Bank	DECRG
Yale	Economics