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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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Stefanie Stantcheva
We survey the recent literature in economics measuring what is on top of people’s minds using open-ended questions. We first provide an overview of studies in political economy,…
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Jason Furman
My own preference is for incremental health reform rather than the teardown they advocate. This is partly based on answering a different question than the one they pose—instead of…
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Jason Furman
I was gratified to see Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein write, “if Furman and others like him are enthusiastic about trying to build momentum for a proposal for universal,…
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Bruno S. Sergi
Vol. 31, Issue 3, Pages 575-582
Purpose: This study aims to highlight the risks and threats posed by crowdfunding. It also looks at the new European Union regulation on crowdfunding, which is intended to give…
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Stefanie Stantcheva
A common complaint about tax systems is that they are too complex and several countries offer simplified regimes to subsets of taxpayers. But do such regimes simplify tax…
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Jeffrey Frankel
In 1975, the Nobel laureate economist William D. Nordhaus suggested that developing economies might seek to prop up the value of their currencies before an election, only to…
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Satchit Balsari
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a field of computer science that focuses on creating intelligent systems, which can reason, learn, and act autonomously, exhibiting “human?like”…
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Goodarz Danaei
Vol. 31, Issue 6, Pages 723-731
Aims: We compared the performance of cardiovascular risk prediction tools in rural India. Methods and results: We applied the World Health Organization Risk Score (WHO-RS) tools,…
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Luis M. Viceira
Using a large panel of U.S. brokerage accounts trades and positions, we show that a large fraction of retail investors trade as contrarians after large earnings surprises,…