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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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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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Stefanie Stantcheva
This paper studies people’s understanding of inflation–their perceived causes, consequences, trade-offs–and the policies supported to mitigate its effects. We design a new,…
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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…
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Dani Rodrik
The future of developing countries is in services as that that is where the jobs will be. Enhancing productivity in labor-absorbing services must be an essential priority, for…
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Stefanie Stantcheva
Working Paper No. 31688
We investigate the origins and implications of zero-sum thinking – the belief that gains for one individual or group tend to come at the cost of others. Using a new survey of a…
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Gabriel Chodorow-Reich
We use data on stock portfolios of Norwegian households to show that stock market wealth increases entrepreneurship by relaxing financial constraints. Our research design isolates…
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Stefanie Stantcheva
This paper provides new evidence on a long-standing question asked by Shiller (1997): Why do we dislike inflation? I conducted two surveys on representative samples of the US…
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Augustin Bergeron
Working Paper No. 31663
We study the evolution of belief systems that suppress productive effort, including beliefs about envy, the importance of luck for success, witchcraft beliefs, and disdain for…
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Edward L. Glaeser
Working Paper No. 32426
Are developing-world cities engines of opportunities for low-wage earners? In this study, we track a cohort of young low-income workers in Brazil for thirteen years to explore the…
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Stefanie Stantcheva
We survey the recent literature in economics measuring what is on top of people’s minds using open-ended questions. We first provide an overview of studies in political economy,…