Faculty Publications

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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Gender gaps in South Korea’s labour market: children explain most of the gender employment gap, but little of the gender wage gap

Karen Dynan

South Korea’s gender wage and employment gaps are among the largest in the OECD. Using labour force survey data over 2010–19, we estimate gender wage and employment gaps, and…

Debt Distress on China's Belt and Road

Carmen Reinhart

Vol. 113, Pages 131-34

This paper shows that China's lending boom to developing country sovereigns has largely ended and that debt distress and defaults are increasingly common. Chinese lenders react to…

Exacerbated Inequalities: The Learning Loss from COVID-19 in Italy

Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara

Vol. 113, Pages 489-493

Using administrative data on the universe of eighth graders, we study learning losses in Italy between 2021 and 2019 to estimate the effect of schools' closures due to the COVID-…

The Impact of Large-Scale Social Media Advertising Campaigns on COVID-19 Vaccination: Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials

Marcella Alsan

Vol. 113, Pages 653-658

COVID-19 vaccines are widely available in wealthy countries, yet many remain unvaccinated. We report on two studies (United States and France) with millions of Facebook users that…

The Health of Democracies during the Pandemic: Results from a Randomized Survey Experiment

Marcella Alsan

Vol. 113, Pages 572-576

Concerns have been raised about the "demise of democracy," possibly accelerated by pandemic-related restrictions. Using a survey experiment involving 8,206 respondents from 5…