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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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The New Economics of Industrial Policy
Dani Rodrik
vlog Working Paper No. RWP23-022
We discuss the considerable literature that has developed in recent years providing rigorous evidence on how industrial policies work. This literature is a significant improvement…
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Cancel culture: Heterodox self-censorship or the curious case of the dog-which-didn’t-bark
Pippa Norris
vlog Working Paper No. RWP23-020
There is widespread concern that academic freedom is threatened by growing demands for intellectual conformity and attempted censorship from intolerant zealots involving ‘woke…
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Why Do Wages Grow Faster for Educated Workers?
David Deming
vlog Working Paper No. RWP23-017
The U.S. college wage premium doubles over the life cycle, from 27 percent at age 25 to 60 percent at age 55. Using a panel survey of workers followed through age 60, I show that…
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Optimal Public Transportation Networks:
Evidence from the World’s Largest Bus
Rapid Transit System in Jakarta
Rema Hanna
vlog Working Paper No. RWP23-018
Designing public transport networks involves tradeoffs between extensive geographic coverage, frequent service on each route, and relying on interconnections as opposed to direct…
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Dollar Rivals
Jeffrey Frankel
vlog Working Paper No. RWP23-015
Written for a PIIE conference on the 50th anniversary of floating exchange rates, this paper deals with possible alternatives to a unipolar dollar-based system. It considers (1)…
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A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions
Eliana La Ferrara
vlog Working Paper No. RWP23-013
We propose a model to study when an intermediate action can serve as a stepping stone that enables the elimination of a harmful norm. While the intermediate action may facilitate…
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On Productivism
Dani Rodrik
vlog Working Paper No. RWP23-012
We are today in the midst of a transition away from what has come to be called “neoliberalism,” with much uncertainty about what will replace it. We might approach the absence of…
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Multidimensional Human Capital and the Wage Structure
David Deming
vlog Working Paper No. RWP23-011
This paper reviews and synthesizes the literature on the macroeconomic implications of human capital theory. I begin with a review of the canonical model of education and the wage…
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Crowding in Private Quality: The Equilibrium Effects of Public Spending in Education
Asim Khwaja
vlog Working Paper No. RWP23-010
We estimate the equilibrium effects of a public school grant program administered through school councils in Pakistani villages with multiple public and private schools and…
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Trading Places: Mobility Responses of Native and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock
Gordon Hanson
vlog Working Paper No. RWP23-007
Previous research finds that the greater geographic mobility of foreign than native-born workers following economic shocks helps to facilitate local labor market adjustment to…