The Center for International Development is home to over 125 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 below.

Working papers published by Harvard faculty, graduate students, and research fellows prior to 2024 can be found here

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Robert Lawrence
Manufacturing jobs, once the backbone of the modern US economy, have declined as a share of GDP over recent decades, darkening opportunities for middle-class advancement. Similar…
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Meghan O'Sullivan
The clean energy transition has reached adolescence. Its future direction is not yet set, and in the meantime, its internal paradoxes make for a volatile mix. Political leaders…
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Dan Levy
Since ChatGPT stormed the world in November 2022, speculation about AI in education has often been overwhelming, vague, or impractical. “Teaching Effectively with ChatGPT”…
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Michela Carlana
Vol. 114
In this paper, we implement a lab-in-field experiment among around 2000 children enrolled in 14 middle schools in Italy to investigate whether thinking about parental…
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Jay Rosengard
Vol. 42, Issue 1, Pages 125-127
This publication is a multifaceted analysis of the global monetary regime's evolution, from the disintegrating impacts of the Great Depression during the interwar period to the…
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Dani Rodrik
The future of developing countries lies in services. Enhancing productivity in labor-absorbing services in particular must be an essential priority, for reasons of both growth and…
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Jason Furman
My own preference is for incremental health reform rather than the teardown they advocate. This is partly based on answering a different question than the one they pose—instead of…
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Jason Furman
I was gratified to see Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein write, “if Furman and others like him are enthusiastic about trying to build momentum for a proposal for universal,…
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Rema Hanna
Does a woman’s take-up of government benefits vary with her perception of how they will be shared within the household? Using randomized assignment to alternative information…
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Asim Khwaja
March 31, 2024, Paper: "This paper delves into the intricate relationship between ethics, social responsibility, and profitability in the business realm. It explores how companies…