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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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Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis
Marcella Alsan
Vol. 15, Issue 4, Pages 389-421
We study people's willingness to trade off civil liberties for increased health security in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic by deploying representative surveys involving…
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The Impact of Large-Scale Social Media Advertising Campaigns on COVID-19 Vaccination: Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials
Marcella Alsan
Vol. 113, Pages 653-658
COVID-19 vaccines are widely available in wealthy countries, yet many remain unvaccinated. We report on two studies (United States and France) with millions of Facebook users that…
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The Health of Democracies during the Pandemic: Results from a Randomized Survey Experiment
Marcella Alsan
Vol. 113, Pages 572-576
Concerns have been raised about the "demise of democracy," possibly accelerated by pandemic-related restrictions. Using a survey experiment involving 8,206 respondents from 5…
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Why Diverse Clinical Trial Participation Matters
Marcella Alsan
Vol. 388, Issue 14, Pages 1252-1254
Marginalized racial and ethnic groups, women, and other historically disenfranchised populations are substantially underrepresented in clinical trials, despite increasing concern…
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The Epidemiology of Postoperative Catastrophic Health Expenditure in The United States
Marcella Alsan
Vol. 11, Issue 4S, Pages 51
Approximately 23 million people struggle with medical debt in the U.S. This amounts to over $195 billion debt in collection. The burden of healthcare costs on patients is defined…
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Health Care in U.S. Correctional Facilities — A Limited and Threatened Constitutional Right
Marcella Alsan
Vol. 388, Pages 847-852
The U.S. Constitution does not guarantee a right to health care. Yet since 1976, the Supreme Court has held that deliberate indifference to the serious medical needs of…
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The Health of Democracies During the Pandemic: Results from a Randomized Survey Experiment
Marcella Alsan
vlog Working Paper No. RWP23-004
Concerns have been raised about the “demise of democracy”, possibly accelerated by pandemic-related restrictions. Using a survey experiment involving 8,206 respondents from five…
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The Impact of Large-Scale Social Media Advertising Campaigns on COVID-19 Vaccination: Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials
Marcella Alsan
vlog Working Paper No. RWP22-021
COVID-19 vaccines are widely available in wealthy countries, yet many people remain unvaccinated. Understanding the effectiveness -- or lack thereof -- of popular vaccination…
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Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials
Marcella Alsan
vlog Working Paper No. RWP22-019
This article examines the consequences and causes of low enrollment of Black patients in clinical trials. We develop a simple model of similarity-based extrapolation that predicts…
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Fear and the Safety Net: Evidence from Secure Communities
Marcella Alsan
Pages 1-45
We study the effects of Secure Communities, an immigration enforcement program that dramatically increased interior removals of Hispanic non-citizens from the United States, on…