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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Building a resistance to US assaults on public health

Alicia Yamin

Vol. 406, Issue 10499, Pages 108-110

The administration of US President Donald Trump has launched a full-fledged assault on science and public health; its “flood the zone” strategy created chaos and initially…

Pandemic and Crisis Preparedness and Response: Conceptualizing Cultural, Social and Political Drivers of Trustworthiness and Collective Action

Alicia Yamin

Vol. 18, Issue 2

During the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, trust in governments and between individuals was associated with lower rates of infections and mortality. Thus, understanding the…

Accountability in Developing Democracies: The Impact of the Internet, Social Media, and Polarization

Pia Raffler

Vol. 28, Pages 413-434

This article reviews the recent literature on accountability in developing democracies through the lens of two nested principal–agent problems: the relationship between voters and…

Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights: Advances and Setbacks

Alicia Yamin

Vol. 53, Issue S1, Pages 66-68

This article first describes shifts in human rights law that have led to improvements in the realization of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) over the last decade.…

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…

A Dangerous Departure: The Inter-American Court’s Failure to Squarely Address Abortion in Beatriz v El Salvador

Alicia Yamin

The modern international human rights system was created to protect universal values of dignity and equality from national laws that attacked those norms and weaponized the state…

Third Party Presence and the Political Salience of Ethnicity in Survey Data

Mashail Malik

Vol. 86, Issue 1

In developing countries, in-person surveys are frequently conducted in the presence of respondents’ family, friends, or neighbors. What effect, if any, does their presence have on…

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…

Foreign competition and innovation

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…

Deep Learning for Economists

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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