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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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Augustin Bergeron
Vol. 92, Issue 4, Pages 1163-1193
This paper investigates how tax rates and tax enforcement jointly impact fiscal capacity in low‐income countries. We study a policy experiment in the D.R. Congo that randomly…
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Ricardo Hausmann
Working Paper No. 231
In this paper, I argue that a focus on exports, both at the intensive margin (where existing products increase their volume), but especially at the extensive margin (where new…
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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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Dani Rodrik
Vol. 40, Pages 256-268
We advance principles for the construction of a stable and broadly beneficial world order that does not require significant commonality in interests and values among states. In…
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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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David Bloom
Working Paper No. 26003
Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The macro-based approach tends to yield estimates that are either…
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David Canning
Vol. 178, Pages 106575
Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The macro-based approach tends to yield estimates that are either…
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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…
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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…