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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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Why Do Wages Grow Faster for Educated Workers?
David Deming
ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø 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
ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø 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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America’s Mythical Fiscal Conservatives
Jeffrey Frankel
The United States’ debt-to-GDP ratio, which improved during the inflationary spike of 2021-22, is expected to increase as inflation cools and the US population rapidly ages. While…
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Social Sustainability and the Development Process: What Is It, Why Does It Matter, and How Can It Be Enhanced?
Michael Woolcock
Development debates frequently focus on making economic growth sustainable or ensuring that natural resources are used sustainably; such debates rest on longstanding scholarship…
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Dollar Rivals
Jeffrey Frankel
ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø 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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Exploring the intersection between country context and priority setting to prevent maternal mortality: A multi-methods study comparing expected vs observed priorities in five countries to validate the obstetric transition model
Ana Langer
Vol. 13, Pages 4057
Background: The obstetric transition model suggests that, as countries economically develop, the primary causes of maternal mortality change. Countries are assigned to one of five…
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Measuring maternal improvement through multi-stakeholder engagement: Documenting developments in the dynamic programmatic context of the global COVID-19 pandemic through outcome harvesting
Ana Langer
Vol. 13, Pages 6016
Background: To bolster country efforts towards meeting the targets and strategies laid out in WHO's report ""Strategies toward ending preventable maternal mortality"" (EPMM), a…
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Understanding effective approaches to addressing the common challenges faced by global health networks: Mobilising multi-stakeholder networks to address the upstream determinants of maternal health in five low- and middle-income countries
Ana Langer
Vol. 13, Pages 4044
Background: Past case studies on global initiatives to address maternal health and survival have focused on global health networks, identifying four essential tasks that define…
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Help for the Heartland? The Employment and Electoral Effects of the Trump Tariffs in the United States
Gordon Hanson
We study the economic and political consequences of the 2018-2019 trade war between the United States, China and other U.S. trade partners at the detailed geographic level,…
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A Massive Scale Semantic Similarity Dataset of Historical English
Melissa Dell
Abstract: A diversity of tasks use language models trained on semantic similarity data. While there are a variety of datasets that capture semantic similarity, they are either…