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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 Marginal Disutility from Corruption in Social Programs: Evidence from Program Administrators and Beneficiaries
Rema Hanna
vlog Working Paper No. RWP23-008
Concerns about fraud in welfare programs are common arguments worldwide against such programs. We conducted a survey experiment with over 28,000 welfare program administrators and…
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Local Labor Market Impacts of the Energy Transition: Prospects and Policies
Gordon Hanson
vlog Working Paper No. RWP23-005
Society’s transition toward more sustainable energy sources is well underway. But substantially reducing the use of fossil fuels to generate electricity, to power vehicles, and to…
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The Health of Democracies During the Pandemic: Results from a Randomized Survey Experiment
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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US Immigration from Latin America in Historical Perspective
Gordon Hanson
vlog Working Paper No. RWP22-023
The share of US residents who were born in Latin America and the Caribbean plateaued recently, after a half century of rapid growth. Our review of the evidence on the US…
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Heterogeneity in School Value-Added and the Private Premium
Asim Khwaja
vlog Working Paper No. RWP22-020
Using rich panel data from Pakistan, we compute test score based measures of quality (School Value-Addeds or SVAs) for more than 800 schools across 112 villages and verify that…
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The Impact of Large-Scale Social Media Advertising Campaigns on COVID-19 Vaccination: Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials
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
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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Pro-democracy Organizing against Autocracy in the United States: A Strategic Assessment & Recommendations
Erica Chenoweth, Zoe Marks
vlog Working Paper No. RWP22-017
Many groups in the US are focused on preventing the further rise of authoritarian forces by raising alarms about authoritarian power-grabs in key states; by building financial,…
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A Simple Theory of Economic Development at the Extensive Industry Margin
Ricardo Hausmann
vlog Working Paper No. RWP22-016
We revisit the well-known fact that richer countries tend to produce a larger variety of goods and analyze economic development through (export) diversifcation. We show that…
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The Birth of a Nation: Media and Racial Hate
Desmond Ang
vlog Working Paper No. RWP20-038
This paper documents the impact of popular media on racial hate by examining the first American blockbuster: 1915’s The Birth of a Nation, a fictional portrayal of the KKK’s…