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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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Don’t look to efficiency for big deficit reductions
Douglas Elmendorf, Karen Dynan
Trying to reduce federal budget deficits by increasing the efficiency of federal operations is an appealing idea. However, greater efficiency alone would make only a small…
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Fiscal policy and the pandemic-era surge in US inflation: Lessons for the future
Douglas Elmendorf, Karen Dynan
In the United States, massive fiscal expansion during the pandemic protected households and helped to return output and unemployment nearly to pre-pandemic expectations by the end…
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GDP as a Measure of Economic Well-Being
Karen Dynan
The sense that recent technological advances have yielded considerable benefits for everyday life, as well as disappointment over measured productivity and output growth in recent…
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High and Rising US Federal Debt: Causes and Implications
Karen Dynan
The outlook for federal debt represents a significant economic challenge for the United States. Economic developments and policy changes over the past two decades have materially…
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Advanced economies will experience subdued growth, outlook for emerging markets is varied
Karen Dynan
The global economy is projected to expand 3.0 percent in 2023 and 2.8 percent in 2024, a slower pace than the 3.4 percent rate in 2022. Inflation is receding in most countries but…
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PIIE projects global economy poised for soft landing
Karen Dynan
After growing 3.4 percent in 2022, the global economy is projected to expand 3 percent in 2023 and 2.8 percent in 2024. A soft landing in most countries is likely but not assured.
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Changes in Racial Gaps in Retirement Security over Time
Douglas Elmendorf, Karen Dynan
We explore changes over time in how financially prepared Americans are for retirement, with a focus on the relative positions of Black and White families. Our data source, the…
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Gender gaps in South Korea’s labour market: children explain most of the gender employment gap, but little of the gender wage gap
Karen Dynan
South Korea’s gender wage and employment gaps are among the largest in the OECD. Using labour force survey data over 2010–19, we estimate gender wage and employment gaps, and…
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Comment on ‘Economic Impact Payments and Household Spending During the Pandemic’ by Parker, Schild, Erhard, and Johnson
Karen Dynan
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Why gender disparities persist in South Korea’s labor market
Karen Dynan
Although the South Korean economy fared relatively well on the whole during the pandemic, the labor market consequences were uneven, with women experiencing worse outcomes than…