I have won a significant amount of funds ($1,600,000+), and I am the principal investigator or co-PI on a number of awards including:
$75,000 Generative AI Chat for Impact Accelerator by Turn.io, Agency Fund, and OpenAI and with Yoco (Principal Investigator).
$15,000 South African Reserve Bank - FinTech, Entrepreneurship, and Rolling Electricity Outages (Principal Investigator).
$110,000 Grand Challenges 'Stars in Global Health' (Principal Investigator: designed studies, wrote proposal). Project Webpage. The program supports Bold Ideas with Big Impact from the best and brightest scientists and innovators, to address the most pressing global health challenges. It provides funding to explore transformative ideas that bring together scientific/technical, social and business innovation.
$710,000 DFID-ENERGIA: Gender and Sustainable Energy Research (co-PI; Wrote proposal, set up project, designed studies, created partnerships).
$155,000 International Growth Centre and INSEAD RCT lab (co-PI). Project Webpage.
$50,000 Wharton and INSEAD (co-PI)
$500,000 program funding
$50,000 Environment for Development grant (co-PI)
Labor Economics Research Grant: National Research Foundation.
David and Elaine Potter Research Fellowship
Harry Crossley Research Fellowship
National Research Foundation
Economics Research Southern Africa