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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In the nearly 50 years that Gallup has queried the public about trust in professions, 2025 has broken new ground and overall trust in physicians has never been lower. Between 2019…
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Carmen Reinhart
While there is no immediate candidate to supplant the US dollar, ballooning US deficits, the risk of higher US inflation, and the fragmentation of global trade have complicated…
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Dara Kay Cohen
How does participating in research on difficult topics affect research staff? While investigations of research-related stress (RRS) have increased in recent years, most are…
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Jason Furman
CNBC's "The Exchange" team discusses the Federal Reserve's looming interest rate decision and the case to keep rates the same with Jason Furman, professor at Harvard’s Kennedy…
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Randall Kekoa Akee
The findings from the 2020 U.S. Census of Population in comparison to those of the 2010 Census illustrate the increasing racial and ethnic diversity of the population in the…
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Jeffrey Frankel
For now, and in the foreseeable future, fiscal adjustment is a political non-starter in the US, where the prospect of higher taxes or cuts to Social Security and Medicare is a…
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Dani Rodrik
This article compares cradle-to-grave (life-cycle) Energy Return on Investment (EROI) and greenhouse-gas (GHG) intensity for switchgrass (a perennial cellulosic bioenergy crop)…
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Ricardo Hausmann
In a trend called powershoring, energy-intensive industry will locate closer to renewable energy sources, driven by cheap renewable energy (which is difficult to transport), and…
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Jason Furman
Groundbreaking. Transformative. A new way to unlock human creativity and productivity. Tech CEOs have promised artificial intelligence will do many things for us. They’ve used…
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Winnie Yip
Background and Objectives With China’s rapidly aging population, the need for innovative care models that support both longevity and quality of life has become increasingly urgent…