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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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Four Facts about Human Capital
David Deming
vlog Working Paper No. RWP22-007
This paper synthesizes what economists have learned about human capital since Becker (1962) into four stylized facts. First, human capital explains at least one-third of the…
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Leading with Intentionality: The 4P Framework for Strategic Leadership
Robert Wilkinson, Kimberlyn Leary
vlog Working Paper No. RWP20-029
The ability to exercise leadership effectively requires skills and capacities that must be developed; they are not innate. Leadership is rarely making one decision and sticking to…
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Technology and Local State Capacity: Evidence from Ghana
Anders Jensen
vlog Working Paper No. RWP22-005
This paper studies the role of technology in local-government tax collection capacity in the developing world. We first conduct a new census of all local governments in Ghana to…
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Informality, Consumption Taxes and Redistribution
Anders Jensen
vlog Working Paper No. RWP21-026
Can taxes on consumption redistribute in developing countries? Contrary to consensus, we show that taxing consumption is progressive once we account for informal consumption.…
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Police Violence Reduces Civilian Cooperation and Engagement with Law Enforcement
Desmond Ang
vlog Working Paper No. RWP21-022
How do high-profile acts of police brutality affect public trust and cooperation with law enforcement? To investigate this question, we develop a new measure of civilian crime…
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Search and Information Frictions on Global E-Commerce Platforms: Evidence from AliExpress
Jie Bai
vlog Working Paper No. RWP20-037
We study how search and information frictions shape market dynamics in global e-commerce. Observational data and self-collected quality measures from AliExpress establish the…
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How to Construct A New Global Order
Dani Rodrik, Stephen Walt
vlog Working Paper No. RWP21-013
The global political-economic order is in flux. It is unclear what will replace the U.S-centric post-1990s “liberal” order and whether competition with China can be managed…
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The Health Costs of Cost-Sharing
Amitabh Chandra
vlog Working Paper No. RWP21-005
We use the design of Medicare’s prescription drug benefit program to demonstrate three facts about the health consequences of cost-sharing. First, we show that an as-if-random…
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Apart but Connected: Online Tutoring and Student Outcomes during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Michela Carlana
vlog Working Paper No. RWP21-001
In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the governments of most countries ordered the closure of schools, potentially exacerbating existing learning gaps. This paper evaluates the…
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Emerging Cities as Independent Engines of Growth: The Case of Buenos Aires
Ricardo Hausmann
vlog Working Paper No. RWP20-036
Is it possible for a state or a city to decouple its growth trajectory from that of its country? The answer to this question is not binary. Rather, it comes expressed in degrees…