Faculty Publications

The Harvard Center for International Development is home to faculty affiliates from each school at Harvard University, working across sectors in developing nations around the world.

Faculty research is published in a wide range of academic and policy venues and can be found through the feed and filters below. Select faculty research papers are highlighted in our Faculty Research Insights series on our blog, CID Voices.

CID working papers published by Harvard faculty, graduate students, and research fellows prior to 2024 can be found here.

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Sovereign vs. corporate debt and default: More similar than you think

Carmen Reinhart

Vol. 155, Pages 104082

Theory suggests that corporate and sovereign bonds are fundamentally different, also because sovereign debt has no bankruptcy mechanism and is hard to enforce. We show empirically…

The Inverted U-Shaped Relationship between Female Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

Edward L. Glaeser

Working Paper No. 33608

In the World Bank Enterprise Survey, the share of entrepreneurs who are women first rises and then falls with national income, which reverses the well-known U-shaped relationship…

Comparative analysis of 2 approaches to monitor countries' progress towards full and equal access to sexual and reproductive health care, information, and education in 75 countries: An observational validation study

Ana Langer

Vol. 21, Issue 12, Pages e1004476

Background: Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Indicator 5.6.2 is the "Number of countries with laws and regulations that guarantee full and equal access to women and men aged 15…

The Mysteries of Cities and Economic Growth

Edward L. Glaeser

Cities are the nodes on our global lattice of travel and trade. They are the ports of entry for goods, people, ideas—and for viruses. The second of the IMF’s three critical…

Export-led Growth

Ricardo Hausmann

Working Paper No. 231

In this paper, I argue that a focus on exports, both at the intensive margin (where existing products increase their volume), but especially at the extensive margin (where new…

Health and Economic Growth: Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence

David Bloom

Working Paper No. 26003

Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The macro-based approach tends to yield estimates that are either…

Health and economic growth: Reconciling the micro and macro evidence

David Canning

Vol. 178, Pages 106575

Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The macro-based approach tends to yield estimates that are either…

Supporting social strengths amid emerging bilingualism: effects of Word Generation on social perspective taking in English learners’ writing

Catherine Elizabeth Snow

Pages 45307

Bilinguals often outperform monolinguals at apprehending the perspectives of others—an apparent consequence of their experiences moving across linguistic and sociocultural…

Bridging the Gap Between Imagined and Plausible Futures for Refugees: What Students Wish Their Teachers Knew

Sarah Dryden-Peterson

Vol. 10, Issue 1, Pages 45307

There is a gap between the futures that refugee young people imagine will be possible through their education and the plausible futures in exile, where opportunities are truncated…

Sovereign Debt: 200 years of creditor losses

Carmen Reinhart

Working Paper No. 32599

We study sovereign external debt crises with a focus on creditor losses, or "haircuts". Our sample covers 321 sovereign debt restructurings with external private creditors over…

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