Dejan Kovač and Andrei Munteanu were postdoctoral fellows at the Harvard Center for International Development (CID) as part of…
Growing up an only child in China at the end of the 20th century, Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and CID…
Once upon a time in the world of development finance, it was assumed that simply investing in developing economies was enough—that the flow…
The new CID Voices podcast from the Harvard Center for International Development is bringing together a constellation of leaders who are…
Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…
The literature on wage gaps between Chiapas and the rest of Mexico revolves around individual factors, such as education and ethnicity. Yet…
Ten years after the onset of the Arab Spring, the Middle East and North Africa are torn between two visions of progress: a democratic one…
What are the social and political consequences of poor state governance and low state legitimacy? Under what conditions does lynching –…
Nearly a thousand officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This paper documents the large, racially-disparate…
This paper explores how individual preferences for redistribution depend on future income prospects. In addition to estimating the impact…