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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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Michael Woolcock
Understandings of what is unique and consequential about ‘social’ development vis-à-vis other sectoral domains have evolved considerably over the past eight decades, with the…
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Robert Lawrence
I wanted to very briefly touch on my topic, which is technology, policy, and jobs. I'd like to talk about the employment dimension of technological changes that we've experienced…
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Gordon Hanson
We examine changes in the spatial distribution of good jobs across US commuting zones over 1980-2000 and 2000-2021. We define good jobs as those in industries in which full-time…
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Alejandro Ganimian
Home-visitation programs have improved child development in low- and middle-income countries, but they are costly to scale due to their reliance on trained workers. We evaluated…
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Edward L. Glaeser
Working Paper No. 33608
In the World Bank Enterprise Survey, the share of entrepreneurs who are women first rises and then falls with national income, which reverses the well-known U-shaped relationship…
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Raffaella Sadun
Working Paper No. 25-033
Firms are key to economic development, and CEOs are key to firm productivity. Are firms in countries at varying stages of development led by the right CEOs, and if not, why? We…
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Ricardo Hausmann
Various factors influence why some countries are more open to immigration than others. Policy is only one of them. We design country-specific measures of openness to immigration…
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Jaya Wen
When tariffs are levied against a specific country, that country might attempt to circumvent the tariff by rerouting products through a third country to avoid the higher taxes.…
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Michela Carlana
The paper examines the early integration of Ukrainian refugee students into Italy's education system following the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.…
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Alejandro Ganimian
Vol. 639, Pages 673–681
Many children from low-income backgrounds worldwide fail to master school mathematics1; however, some children extensively use mental arithmetic outside school2,3. Here we…