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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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Harvard Kennedy School
 
He Was Good at Steering the Fed, but He Was a Genius at Ignoring Trump’s Threats
Jason Furman
A decade and a half later, Mr. Powell’s tenure as Fed chair is coming to an end. In normal times, this would be the moment to look back at his policies and performance. We’d be…
Harvard Kennedy School
 
Estimating Social Norm Complementarities
Eliana La Ferrara
We develop a model of choice over social norms that allows for complementarities along two dimensions: technological, analogous to complementarities between consumption goods, and…
Harvard Kennedy School
 
Horizontal Equity of Taxation: Citizen Beliefs and Policy Preferences
Anders Jensen
Horizontal inequity occurs when employees and self-employed workers with the same income end up with different effective tax burdens, due to the difficulty of enforcing taxes on…
Harvard Kennedy School
 
Is the US Falling Victim to the Resource Curse?
Jeffrey Frankel
The argument that the natural-resource curse is at work in the US rests on the assumption that rising oil and gas production will necessarily crowd out manufacturing, including…
Harvard Kennedy School
 
Xi doubles down on state-led growth
Anthony Saich
China’s 15th Five-Year Plan reinforces President Xi Jinping’s vision of a high-tech, securitised economy driven by state-led investment in frontier technologies. While this…
Harvard Kennedy School
 
Prices Are High. Here’s One Reason Not to Panic.
Jason Furman
The government’s latest data drop puts a big exclamation point on something you already knew: Prices for much of the stuff we all buy — gasoline, clothing, fruits and vegetables…
Harvard Kennedy School
 
Immigrant Earnings Assimilation, 1981–2021
Randall Kekoa Akee
In this paper, we characterize trends in the earnings assimilation of immigrant workers from 1981 to 2021. We use administrative longitudinal data that contain the earnings of…
Harvard Kennedy School
 
Every President Tries It. It Never Works.
Jason Furman
A year ago President Trump declared “Liberation Day,” unleashing the highest tariffs in more than 80 years in an attempt to end a system under which, he argued, “foreign leaders…
Harvard Kennedy School
 
Tax Knowledge in Equilibrium: Evidence from an Education Program in Ghana
Anders Jensen
A property tax experiment in Ghana randomly provides tax education to property owners and officials. The intervention raises tax knowledge and generates spillovers to untreated…
Harvard Kennedy School
 
Bolivia’s Economic Pivot: Main Findings and Reform Priorities
Ricardo Hausmann
This publication synthesizes the main findings and recommendations from a series of reports on Bolivia’s Economic Pivot. We examine the origins of the current crisis and propose a…