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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
Vol. 100, Issue 4, Pages 594-608
We conduct a disaggregated empirical analysis of civil conflict at the subnational level in Africa over 1997 to 2011 using a new gridded data set. We construct an original measure…
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Eliana La Ferrara
Vol. 8, Issue 1, Pages 224-256
We analyze a novel lobbying channel: firms shifting spending toward a politician's business in the hope of securing favorable regulation. We examine the evolution of advertising…
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Eliana La Ferrara
Vol. 104, Issue 11, Pages 3397-3433
We collect a new dataset on capital punishment in the US and we propose a test of racial bias based upon patterns of sentence reversals. We model the courts as minimizing type I…
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Eliana La Ferrara
Vol. 4, Issue 4, Pages 1-31
We estimate the effect of television on fertility in Brazil, where soap operas portray small families. We exploit differences in the timing of entry into different markets of…
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Eliana La Ferrara
Vol. 97, Issue 5, Pages 1978-1993
This paper studies the relationship between civil war and the value of firms in a poor, resource-abundant country using microeconomic data for Angola. We focus on diamond mining…
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Eliana La Ferrara
Vol. 89, Issue 5-6, Pages 897-931
This paper explores how individual preferences for redistribution depend on future income prospects. In addition to estimating the impact of individuals' socioeconomic background…
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Eliana La Ferrara
Vol. 93, Issue 5, Pages 1730-1751
This paper studies kinship band networks as capital market institutions. Membership in a community where individuals are dynastically linked has two effects on informal credit.…
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Eliana La Ferrara
Vol. 85, Issue 2, Pages 235-273
This paper investigates the determinants of group membership, and in particular the effect of income inequality on individual incentives to join economic groups. Drawing on a…
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Eliana La Ferrara
Vol. 85, Issue 2, Pages 207-234
Both individual experiences and community characteristics influence how much people trust each other. Using individual level data drawn from US localities we find that the…
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Eliana La Ferrara
Vol. 115, Issue 3, Pages 847-904
This paper studies what determines group formation and the degree of participation when the population is heterogeneous, both in terms of income and race or ethnicity. We are…