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…

Surveillance for TB drug resistance using routine rapid diagnostic testing data: Methodological development and application in Brazil

Marcia C.de Castro, Nicolas Menzies

Vol. 20, Pages e1012662

Effectively responding to drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) requires accurate and timely information on resistance levels and trends. In contexts where use of drug susceptibility…

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…

Growth through Diversification in Hermosillo

Ricardo Hausmann

Working Paper No. 239

In this report, we study Hermosillo's economic performance and assess critical issues affecting the city’s ability to achieve stronger economic growth. Although Hermosillo is far…

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…

The international empirics of management

Raffaella Sadun

Vol. 121, Issue 45, Pages e2412205121

A country’s national income broadly depends on the quantity and quality of workers and capital. But how well these factors are managed within and between firms may be a key…

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…

Cost-effectiveness and health impact of screening and treatment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection among formerly incarcerated individuals in Brazil: a Markov modelling study

Marcia C.de Castro, Nicolas Menzies

Vol. 12, Issue 9, Pages e1446-e1455

Background: Individuals who were formerly incarcerated have high tuberculosis incidence, but are generally not considered among the risk groups eligible for tuberculosis…

The false distinction between industrial and economic policy

Celestin Monga

After being disparaged and disdained for decades, industrial policy is back on the global economic agenda. Perhaps the strongest evidence of industrial policy’s rehabilitation is…

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