CID Faculty Spotlight: Wolfram Schlenker on Climate Change, Agriculture and the Future of Food
For decades after World War II, global agricultural production outpaced population growth, driving down food prices and alleviating extreme…
With a master’s in Education Policy and Analysis from Harvard GSE, I recently helped facilitate a workshop for the São Paulo Department of…
How does job displacement increase crime in economically vulnerable communities, and can access to credit reduce the risk of criminal…
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India’s persistent gender inequalities remain a major obstacle to inclusive social and economic development. Patriarchal norms are deeply…
Dejan Kovač and Andrei Munteanu were postdoctoral fellows at the Harvard Center for International Development (CID) as part of…
We assemble a dataset of the universe of economics and business journal articles published since 1980 to assess differences in the levels…
Over the summer of 2023, I spent time as a CID global intern working at Thailand’s Central Bank, specifically at the research institute of…
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When India’s Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) was founded in 1972, they understood that the informal sector was not going to go…
Community-based targeting, in which communities allocate social assistance using local information about who is poor, in experimental…
Can introducing new pedagogies to teachers in developing countries be effective in reducing learning gaps?A recent study entitled Learning…