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…

Around the Globe, Governments Lean into AI

Mark Esposito

Vol. 10, Issue 3

Governments around the globe are in a high-stakes race to develop cutting-edge AI systems. But how exactly are they using the technology for their own operations, and what might…

Global Evidence on Gender Gaps and Generative AI

Rembrand Koning

Working Paper No. 25-023

Generative AI has the potential to transform productivity and reduce inequality, but only if adopted broadly. In this paper, we show that recently identified gender gaps in…

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…

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…

Economic Growth and Childhood Malnutrition in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Stéphane Verguet

Vol. 6, Issue 11

Importance: Economic growth may reduce childhood malnutrition through improvements of several contributing factors, but the empirical evidence is mixed. Identifying the most…

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