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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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Eliana La Ferrara
Alberto Alesina was the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University, from where he got his PhD, taught for more than three decades and where he also…
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Eliana La Ferrara
We use unique survey data from former victims of child sex trafficking and vulnerable girls in shelters in the Philippines to study the predictors of becoming a victim of…
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Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara
We study the Tutoring Online Program (TOP), where: (i) tutoring is entirely online; (ii) tutors are volunteer university students, matched with underprivileged middle school…
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Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara
The "Tutoring Online Program" (TOP), launched in Italy in 2020, is an online educational reinforcement tutoring program that offered support to high school students affected by…
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Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara
Vol. 113, Pages 489-493
Using administrative data on the universe of eighth graders, we study learning losses in Italy between 2021 and 2019 to estimate the effect of schools' closures due to the COVID-…
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Eliana La Ferrara
ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Working Paper No. RWP23-013
We propose a model to study when an intermediate action can serve as a stepping stone that enables the elimination of a harmful norm. While the intermediate action may facilitate…
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Eliana La Ferrara
Vol. 112, Issue 12, Pages 3848-3875
We exploit a policy designed to randomly allocate roommates in a large South African university to investigate whether interracial interaction affects stereotypes, attitudes and…
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Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara
Vol. 112, Pages 409-414
We study the relationship between teachers' stereotypes and students' high school choice in a setting where students can enroll in more or less demanding high school tracks. We…
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Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara
Vol. 90, Issue 1, Pages 1-29
We study the educational choices of children of immigrants in a tracked school system. We first show that immigrants in Italy enroll disproportionately into vocational high…
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Eliana La Ferrara
Vol. 17, Issue 6, Pages 1687-1722
I study the role of aspirations in economic development drawing on the existing theoretical and empirical literature and provide some new empirical findings using individual level…