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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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Michela Carlana
Gender segregation in the field of study is still a pervasive phenomenon in many countries. In this paper, we highlight the crucial role of parents and peers in adolescents'…
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Ricardo Hausmann
Finance forms a necessary input for production, one so central that it was placed atop the decision tree in the original Growth Diagnostics framework. As we argue, one of the…
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Ricardo Hausmann
The process of structural transformation that has accompanied economic success stories requires an expansion of the technological capabilities held in society. Adding new…
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Rema Hanna
We conduct a randomized controlled trial in Mexico City to determine willingness to pay (WTP) for SMS air quality alerts and to study the effects of air quality alerts, reminders…
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During the COVID-19 epidemic, many health professionals started using mass communication on social media to relay critical information and persuade individuals to adopt…
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Jason Furman
We examine how much of the overall decline in employment between the beginning of 2020 and 2021 can be explained by excess job loss among parents of young children, and mothers…
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Henry Lee
This study provides an assessment on the production of biofuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel, and the energy-water nexus in the United States. Transitioning the transportation…
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Michela Carlana
Anti-immigrant stereotypes are widespread in most contemporary societies. These negative stereotypes are partly due to misinformation and partly to rejection of diversity,…
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Ricardo Hausmann
We studied the geography as well as the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of 1.7 million members of the global Colombian diaspora (34% of the total estimated…
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David Deming
Machines increasingly replace people in routine job tasks. The remaining tasks require workers to make open-ended decisions and to have “soft” skills such as problem-solving,…