Faculty Publications

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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The U.S. Place-Based Policy Supply Chain

Dani Rodrik, Gordon Hanson

Place-based policy in the United States comprises a wide range of government programs that are spread across federal, state, and local agencies and that rely on public, private,…

Vanguard: Black Veterans and Civil Rights after World War I

Desmond Ang

Nearly 400,000 Black men were drafted into the National Army during World War I, where they toiled in segregated units and received little formal training. Leveraging novel…

Building Capacity to Measure Sustainability: Lessons from scholarship and practice

William Clark

One of the longest standing challenges facing both research and practice in sustainable development is the design and implementation of methods for measuring progress towards…

Community Targeting at Scale

Rema Hanna

Community-based targeting, in which communities allocate social assistance using local information about who is poor, in experimental settings leads to nuanced allocations that…

The Hidden Health Care Crisis Behind Bars: A Randomized Trial to Accredit U.S. Jails

The U.S. has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, with over seven million individuals admitted to jails each year. These incarcerated individuals are the only…

Mean Reversion in Randomized Controlled Trials: Implications for Program Targeting and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects

Eligibility criteria for interventions can induce an Ashenfelter Dip, and subsequent mean-reversion may result in improvement over time even absent the intervention. We…

Places versus People: The Ins and Outs of Labor Market Adjustment to Globalization

We analyze the distinct adjustment paths of U.S. labor markets (places) and U.S. workers (people) to increased Chinese import competition during the 2000s. Using comprehensive…

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…

Why Doesn’t The United States Have National Health Insurance? The Role Of The American Medical Association

This study revisits a critical juncture in the development of national health insurance (NHI) in the United States in the post-World War II era. We investigate the role of the…

Publication: Reconciling Multi-Level Rights-Based Commitments in Development: Assessing the Legal and Administrative Imperatives of Responding to Education, Health Care, and Environment Protection Cha

The principles of sovereignty, equality, and self-determination – which have long been the basis for nonintervention in the affairs of sovereign states – have more recently been…

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