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…

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…

Equity as a priority in EAT-Lancet-aligned food system transformations

Christopher Golden

Vol. 5, Pages 811-817

Food systems drive human and environmental change, reflect diverse cultural and ecological contexts, and, in their diversity, can bolster nutrition and planetary health. Ignoring…

Aramco: Navigating the Energy Transition

Tarun Khanna

Working Paper No. 725-358

In March 2024, Amin Nasser, president, and CEO of the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco), had just delivered a speech about the future of energy at a global energy conference. The…

Fighting Climate Change: International Attitudes Toward Climate Policies

Stefanie Stantcheva

Working Paper No. 30265

This paper explores global perceptions and understanding of climate change and policies, examining factors that influence support for climate action and the impact of different…

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…

Coral reef fish biomass and nutrient availability losses from thermal stress

Christopher Golden

Thermal stress driven by climate change is a major threat to tropical coral reef ecosystems1, with marine heatwaves expected to increase in frequency and intensity throughout the…

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