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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Aisha Khizar Yousafzai
Vol. 404, Issue 10467
Building on the evidence from the first paper in this Series highlighting the fundamental importance of healthy and nurturing environments for children's growth and development in…
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The principles of sovereignty, equality, and self-determination – which have long been the basis for nonintervention in the affairs of sovereign states – have more recently been…
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Pippa Norris
A perfect storm of contemporary events has triggered deep angst about American democracy. Long-standing concern was exacerbated during the 2024 US election campaign by the extreme…
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Michael Walton
HKS Working Paper No. RWP24-008
This paper explores the nature and drivers of inequality in Chile. It is a companion paper to Lecaros et al (2023) that analyzed the widespread citizen perceptions and concerns…
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Mark Esposito
Vol. 10, Issue 3
Governments around the globe are in a high-stakes race to develop cutting-edge AI systems. But how exactly are they using the technology for their own operations, and what might…
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Marcella Alsan
Vol. 40, Issue 3, Pages 498-517
Disparities between Black and White Americans in health care coverage and health outcomes are pervasive in the United States. In this paper, we describe the evolution of the…
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Marcia C.de Castro
Vol. 121, Issue 44
Ecological change in the Brazilian Amazon is closely linked to human mobility and health. Mining, agriculture, logging, and other activities alter highly diverse ecological and…
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Lawrence H. Summers, David Deming
This paper explores past episodes of technological disruption in the US labor market, with the goal of learning lessons about the likely future impact of artificial intelligence (…
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Rema Hanna
Many government social insurance policies have low take-up. To understand whether this is due to administrative barriers, information, or low valuation of the insurance, we study…
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Marcella Alsan
The next U.S. president will inherit multiple epidemics with inequitably distributed effects. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are likely to take divergent policy approaches to…