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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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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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Vincent Pons
Vol. 86, Issue 4
Crises of the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic may plausibly affect deep-seated attitudes of a large fraction ofcitizens. In particular, outcome-oriented theories imply that…
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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…
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Natalia Rigol
Vol. 114, Issue 9, Pages 2792-2824
Poor entrepreneurs must frequently choose between business investment and children's education. To examine this trade-off, we exploit experimental variation in short-run…
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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…
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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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Tarun Khanna
Working Paper No. 725-381
Zipline initially established the world's largest logistics network in Rwanda and Ghana by delivering medical supplies to hospitals via automated drones from a centralized hub.…
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Livia Alfonsi
Working Paper No. 32785
The Covid-19 pandemic represents one of the most significant labor market shocks to the world economy in recent times. We present evidence from a field experiment to understand…
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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…