Global Programs

2021-2022 MSLAO Seed Funds

MIT faculty and staff made use of their seed funds from last year to conduct research projects in Argentina, Brazil, the Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Peru. The following six projects were awarded seed funds from the MSLAO for research starting in 2022:

  1. Professor: Joseph Doyle, MIT Sloan
    Project: Legal Aid in Child Welfare: Evidence from an Experimental Design of “Mi Abogado”
    Country: Chile
  2. Professor: Nevan Hanumara, MIT Mechanical Engineering
    Project: Emerging Market Health Tech Innovation Workshop
    Country: Peru
  3. Professor: Isabella Loaiza; Mohsen Bahrami; Alex “Sandy” Pentland, MIT Media Lab
    Project: Estimating Informal Income and Purchase Patterns in Colombia
    Country: Colombia
  4. Professor: Esteban Moro, MIT Sociotechnical Systems Research Center
    Project: Unequal socio-economic impact and recovery of COVID19 in Mexico
    Country: Mexico
  5. Professor: Scott Odell; John Fernandez, MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative
    Project: Climate change and mining in Chile: Hydrosocial relations over desalination and glaciers
    Country: Chile
  6. Professor: Ben Ross Schneider, MIT Political Science
    Project: REPAL (RED DE ECONOMIA POLITICA DE AMERICA LATINA) Conference 2022
    Country: Argentina