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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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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…
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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…
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Elhanan Helpman
Vol. 152, Pages 104007
Empirical studies have found that enhanced foreign competition can encourage or discourage innovation. To address this relationship, I examine a market structure in which a small…
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Melissa Dell
Working Paper No. 32768
Deep learning provides powerful methods to impute structured information from large-scale, unstructured text and image datasets. For example, economists might wish to detect the…
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David Yang
Working Paper No. 31617
Citizens have long taken to the streets to demand change, expressing political views that may otherwise be suppressed. Protests have produced change at local, national, and…
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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…
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David Yang
Working Paper No. 32701
Venture capital plays an important role in funding and shaping innovation outcomes, characterized by investors’ deep knowledge of the technology, industry, and institutions, as…
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Oleg Itskhoki
We use a general open-economy wedge-accounting framework to characterize the set of shocks that can account for major exchange rate puzzles. Focusing on a near-autarky behavior of…
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Bruno S. Sergi
Vol. 135
Low reporting quality, as demonstrated by lower earnings informativeness, can exacerbate the information asymmetry gap, particularly in emerging markets. Although recent research…
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Bruno S. Sergi
In the intricate landscape of Indonesia’s financial sector, the pronounced stock price volatility stands out as a topic of pressing concern. This volatility, often perceived as a…