Hannes Öhler

Research associate and PhD student
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Research Fields

• Foreign Aid
• Non-Govermental Organizations (NGOs)

Publications

• How to Attract Donations: The Case of US NGOs in International Development (with Peter Nunnenkamp), Journal of Development Studies, forthcoming.
• Financial Dependence and Aid Allocation by Swiss NGOs: A Panel Tobit Analysis (with Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp and Johannes Weisser), Economic Development and Cultural Change, forthcoming.
• Why it pays for aid recipients to take note of the Millennium Challenge Corporation: Other donors do! (with Axel Dreher and Peter Nunnenkamp), Economics Letters, 115, 3: 373-375 (2012).
• Does Conditionality Work? A Test for an Innovative US Aid Scheme (with Peter Nunnenkamp and Axel Dreher), European Economic Review, 56, 1: 138-156 (2012).
  
• Funding, Competition and the Efficiency of NGOs: An Empirical Analysis of Non-charitable Expenditure of US NGOs Engaged in Foreign Aid (with Peter Nunnenkamp), Kyklos, 65, 1:81-110 (2012).
• Throwing Foreign Aid at HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries: Missing the Target? (with Peter Nunnenkamp), World Development, 39, 10: 1704-1723 (2011).
• Does Government Ideology affect Personal Happiness? A Test (with Axel Dreher), Economics Letters, 111, 2: 161-165 (2011).
• Aid Allocation through Various Official and Private Channels: Need, Merit and Self-Interest as Motives of German Donors (with Peter Nunnenkamp), World Development, 39, 3: 308-323 (2011).

Working Papers

• Donor Coordination and Specialization: Did the Paris Declaration Make a Difference? (with Peter Nunnenkamp and Rainer Thiele), Kiel Working Paper 1748, December 2011.
• US based NGOs in International Development Cooperation: Survival of the Fittest? (with Peter Nunnenkamp and Tillmann Schwörer), Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth Discussion Paper 83, July 2011.