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.

 

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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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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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Dana Born
Vol. 11, Issue 1, Pages 62-65
Much has been written about the importance of psychological safety (Edmondson & Lei, 2014). Creating an environment in which everyone feels secure to express themselves and…
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Jeffrey Frankel
HKS Working Paper No. RWP24-005
We begin by examining determinants of aggregate foreign exchange reserve holdings by central banks (size of issuing country’s economy and financial markets, ability of the…
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Michela Carlana
HKS Working Paper No. RWP24-006
Globally, women remain underrepresented in STEM. Our lab-in-the-field study delves into parental influence on adolescents’ perceptions of scientific versus humanistic aptitude. We…
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Dani Rodrik
Vol. 13
The U.S.-China conflict is threatening continued global economic prosperity and this has inspired a variety of predictions and prescriptions on the future global order. This paper…
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Dani Rodrik
The most pressing economic problems of our time require pragmatic remedies closely tailored to context
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Ricardo Hausmann
In today’s increasingly interconnected global economy, place-based development strategy must be strategic towards leveraging global economic opportunities. Riccardo Crescenzi and…
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Marcella Alsan
Vol. 16, Issue 1, Pages 394-414
We experimentally vary signals and senders to identify which combination will increase vaccine demand among a disadvantaged population in the United States—Black and White men…
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Anders Jensen
Vol. 38, Issue 1, Pages 55-80
Income inequality is high and persistent in developing countries. In this paper, we ask what role taxation can or might play in reducing inequality in low and middle-income…