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Fellow & Graduate Student Working Papers

All Harvard graduate students and research fellows affiliated with CID are invited to submit their papers on international development, with prior approval from a CID faculty associate. Alumni students and fellows may submit papers for consideration so long as the papers are based on research conducted while affiliated with CID. For more information, please review our working paper submission guidelines


Federico Sturzenegger, Bailey Klinger, and Ivan Ordonez
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 149
May 2023


Bailey Klinger, Ivan Ordonez and Federico Sturzenegger
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 148
May 2023


Patricio Goldstein, Timothy Freeman, Alejandro Rueda-Sanz, Shreyas Gadgin Matha, Sarah Bui, Nidhi Rao, Timothy Cheston and Sebastián Bustos
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 147
February 2023


Yang Li and Frank Neffke
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 146
March 2023


Timothy Cheston and Alejandro Rueda-Sanz
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 145
February 2023


Miguel Angel Santos and Farah Hani
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 144
March 2023 (originally published July 2021)


Christina Langer and Simon Wiederhold
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 143
February 2023


Kishan Shah and Federico Sturzenegger
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 142
October 2022


Alexia Lochmann, Nidhi Rao, and Martin A. Rossi
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 141
October 2022


Alexia Lochmann
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 140
November 2022


Andres Fortunato
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 139
November 2022


Nil Tuzcu, Annie White, Brendan Leonard, and Steven Geofrey
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 136
October 2022


Kishan Shah
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 138
September 2022


Ulrich Schetter
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 135
September 2022

Bringing Development Strategy Back In: New Insights from China, South Korea and Singapore
Karim Sarhan
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 134
July 2022


Bailey Klinger
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 137
June 2022

The Quest for Increased Saudization: Labor Market Outcomes and the Shadow Price of Workforce Nationalization Policies
Michael Lopesciolo, Daniela Muhaj, and Carolina Pan
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 132
July 2021

Understanding Saudi Private Sector Employment And Unemployment
Farah Hani and Michael Lopesciolo
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 131
March 2021

Inequality, Openness, and Growth through Creative Destruction
Adrian Jäggi, Ulrich Schetter, Maik T. Schneider
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 130
February 2021

Assessing Ukraine’s Role in European Value Chains: A Gravity Equation-cum-Economic Complexity Analysis Approach
Matté Hartog, J. Ernesto López-Córdova and Frank Neffke
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 129
October 2020

Income Changes after Inter-city Migration
Eduardo Lora
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 128
October 2020

Air Transportation and Regional Economic Development: A Case Study for the New Airport in South Albania
Shreyas Gadgin Matha, Patricio Goldstein, Jessie Lu
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 127
June 2020

Quality Differentiation, Comparative Advantage, and International Specialization Across Products
Ulrich Schetter
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 126
April 2020

Does Birthplace affect Economic Complexity? Cross-country Evidence
Dany Bahar, Hillel Rapoport, Riccardo Turati
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 125
March 2020

Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations
Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Hillel Rapoport
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 124
February 2020

Profit Sharing, Industrial Upgrading, and Global Supply Chains: Theory and Evidence
XiaoJi Liu, Haiyue Liu, ShiYi Liu, Jim H. Shen, Chien-Chiang Lee
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 123
February 2020

Skill Mismatch and the Costs of Job Displacement
Franke Neffke, Ljubica Nedelkoska, and Simon Wiederhold
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 122
January 2020

On Globalization and the Concentration of Talent
Ulrich Schetter and Oriol Tejada
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 121
December 2019, revised October 2020

A Structural Ranking of Economic Complexity
Ulrich Schetter
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 119
November 2019

Migration and Post-conflict Reconstruction: The Effect of Returning Refugees on Export Performance in the Former Yugoslavia
Dany Bahar, Andreas Hauptmann, Cem Özgüzel, and Hillel Rapoport
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 120
October 2019

Social Mobility Explains Populism, Not Inequality or Culture
Eric S. M. Protzer
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 118
September 2019 (Revised May 2021)

Tax Avoidance in Buenos Aires: The Case of Ingresos Brutos
Carolina Ines Pan
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 117
September 2019

Converge and European Value Chains: How Deep Integration Can Reignite Convergence in the EU
Marisa Rama
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 116
September 2019

Empleo Femenino en las Ciudades Colombianas: Un Método de Descripción Estadística
Eduardo Lora
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 115
May 2019

Forecasting Formal Employment in Cities
Eduardo Lora
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 114
May 2019

Minimizing Smuggling and Restoring Public Trust in the Philippine Bureau of Customs
Kenneth Abante
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 113
March 2019

Exit and Foreign Ownership: Evidence from Export-Oriented Firms in Sri Lanka
Daniel Stock
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 112
March 2019

Globalization and Protectionism: AMLO's 2006 Presidential Run
Sebastián Bustos and José Morales
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 111
February 2019

Production Ability and Economic Growth
Sebastián Bustos and Muhammed A. Yildirim
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 110
March 2019

The Impact of the Mexican Drug War on Trade
Jesus Gorrin, Jose Morales, and Bernardo Ricca
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 109
February 2019

Tabasco: Policy Recommendations
Douglas Barrios, Johanna Ramos, Jorge Tapia, and Ana Grisanti
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 108
September 2018

Tabasco: Economic Complexity Report
Douglas Barrios, Johanna Ramos, Jorge Tapia, Ana Grisanti, and José Ramón Morales
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 107
September 2018

Tabasco: Growth Diagnostic
Douglas Barrios, Johanna Ramos, Jorge Tapia, Ana Grisanti, and Juan Obach
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 106
September 2018

Tabasco: Industrial Diagnostic
Douglas Barrios, Johanna Ramos, Jorge Tapia, and Ana Grisanti
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 105
September 2018

Campeche: Industrial Diagnostic
Douglas Barrios, Johanna Ramos, Jorge Tapia, and Ana Grisanti
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 104
September 2018

Campeche: Policy Recommendations
Douglas Barrios, Johanna Ramos, Jorge Tapia, and Ana Grisanti
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 103
September 2018

Campeche: Economic Complexity Report
Douglas Barrios, Johanna Ramos, Jorge Tapia, Ana Grisanti, and José Ramón Morales
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 102
September 2018

Campeche: Growth Diagnostic
Douglas Barrios, Johanna Ramos, Jorge Tapia, Anna Grisanti, and Juan Obach
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 101
September 2018

Baja California: Policy Recommendations
Douglas Barrios, Johanna Ramos, Jorge Tapia, and Ana Grisanti
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 100
September 2018

Baja California: Industrial Diagnostic
Douglas Barrios, Johanna Ramos, Jorge Tapia, and Ana Grisanti
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 99
September 2018

Baja California: Growth Diagnostic
Douglas Barrios, Johanna Ramos, Jorge Tapia, Ana Grisanti, and Juan Obach
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 98
September 2018

Baja California: Economic Complexity Report
Douglas Barrios, Johanna Ramos, Jorge Tapia, Ana Grisanti, and José Ramón Morales
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 97
September 2018

There is a Future after Cars: Economic Growth Analysis for Hermosillo
Douglas Barrios, Ana Grisanti, Jose Ramon Morales, Juan Obach, Johanna Ramos, Miguel Angel Santos, and Jorge Tapia
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 96
October 2018

Growth Diagnostic for the State of Oaxaca
Rafael Rivera Sánchez, Angel Sarmiento Hinojosa and Sebastián Serra Wright
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 95
September 2018

On the Scaling Patterns of Infectious Disease Incidence in Cities
Oscar Patterson-Lomba and Andres Gomez-Leivano
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 94
September 2018

Is Our Human Capital General Enough to Withstand the Current Wave of Technological Change?
Ljubica Nedelkoska, Dario Diodato, and Frank Neffke
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 93
August 2018

The Exposure of U.S. Manufacturing Industries to Exchange Rates
Willem Thorbecke
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 92
March 2018

Growth Accelerations Strategies
Michele Peruzzi and Alessio Terzi
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 91
April 2018

Social Networks and the Intention to Migrate
Miriam Manchin and Sultan Orazbayev
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 90
March 2018

Why do Industries Coagglomerate? How Marshallian Externalities Differ by Industry and Have Evolved Over Time
Dario Diodato, Frank Neffke, and Neave O'Clery
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 89
February 2018

Macroeconomic Adjustment in the Euro Area
Alessio Terzi
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 88
February 2018

The Middle Productivity Trap: Dynamics of Productivity Dispersion
Dany Bahar
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 87
September 2017

The Birth and Growth of New Export Clusters: Which Mechanisms Drive Diversification?
Dany Bahar, Ernesto Stein, Rodrigo Wagner, and Samuel Rosenow
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 86
September 2017

The Hardships of Long Distance Relationships: Time Zone Proximity and Knowledge Transmission within Multinational Firms
Dany Bahar
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 85
August 2017 (Revised August 2019)

International Emigrant Selection on Occupational Skills
Alexander Patt, Jens Ruhose, Simon Wiederhold, and Miguel Flores
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 84
June 2017

Fool's Gold: On the Impact of Venezuelan Devaluations in Multinational Stock Prices
Dany Bahar, Carlos Alberto Molina, and Miguel Angel Santos
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 83
May 2017 (Revised June 2018)

Wide-reaching Structural Reforms and Growth: A Cross-country Synthetic Control Approach
Pasquale Marco Marrazzo and Alessio Terzi
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 82
April 2017

Sanctions and Export Deflection: Evidence from Iran
Jamal Ibrahim Haider
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 80
January 2017

Coworker Complementarity
Frank Neffke
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 79
January 2017

Of Knights and Squires: European Union and the Modernization of Albania
Ermal Frasheri
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 81
March 2016

The Path to Labor Formality: Urban Agglomeration and the Emergence of Complex Industries
Neave O’Clery, Andres Gomez-Lievano and Eduardo Lora
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 78
October 2016

City Size, Distance and Formal Employment
Neave O’Clery and Eduardo Lora
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 77
October 2016

Agglomeration Economies: The Heterogeneous Contribution of Human Capital and Value Chains
Dario Diodato, Frank Neffke, and Neave O’Clery
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 76
August 2016

Pobreza, cobertura de las Misiones y necesidades de protección social para la reforma económica de Venezuela
Luis Pedro España, José Ramón Morales, Douglas Barrios
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 74
June 2016

More Goals, More Growth? A Take on the Mexican Sports Economy through the Economic Complexity Framework
Alfredo Guerra
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 73
July 2016

Inter-industry Labor Flows
Frank Neffke, Anne Otto and Antje Weyh
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 72
March 2016

The Mobility of Displaced Workers: How the Local Industry Mix Affects Job Search Strategies
Frank Neffke, Anne Otto and Cesar Hidalgo
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 71
March 2016

Do Political Connections Reduce Job Creation? Evidence from Lebanon
Ishac Diwan and Jamal Ibrahim Haidar
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 70
June 2016

What Bangs for Your Bucks? Assessing the Design and Impact of Transformative Policy
Matthijs Janssen
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 69
June 2016

One More Resource Curse: Dutch Disease and Export Concentration
Dany Bahar and Miguel Santos
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 68
May 2016

Report on the Poblacion Flotante of Bogota
Michele Coscia, Frank Neffke and Eduardo Lora 
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 67
December 2015

New Insights About Wage Inequality in Colombia
Andres Gomez-Lievano, Juan Tellez and Eduardo Lora 
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 66
December 2015

Piloto de Crecimiento Inclusivo en comunidades indígenas de Chiapas (Cruztón, Chamula)
Miguel Santos, Silvio Dal Buoni, Celeste Lusetti, Elisabeth Garriga 
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 65
November 2015

The Right Fit for the Wrong Reasons: Real Business Cycle in an Oil-Dependent Economy
Miguel Santos
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 64
September 2015

The Value of Smarter Teachers: International Evidence on Teacher Cognitive Skills and Student Performance
Simon Weiderhold, et al
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 63
December 2014

Beyond Pay-As-You-Go and Full-Capitalization Pension Systems: Why Notional Accounts Are a Suitable Option for Latin America
Eduardo Lora
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 62
August 2014

Agents of Structural Change
Frank Neffke, Matté Hartog, Ron Boschma, and Martin Henning
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 75
April 2014

Screening Seguro Popular: The Political Economy of Universal Health Coverage in Mexico
José Carlos R. Pueblita
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 61
June 2013

Is Education a Safety Rope? A Longitudinal Study of Inter-generational Consequences of Temporal Shocks on Mexican Families
José Carlos R. Pueblita, Luis Rubalcava, Graciela Teruel
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 60
August 2013

A Capable State in Afghanistan
Frauke de Weijer
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 59
May 2013

Rethinking Approaches to Managing Change in Fragile States
Frauke de Weijer
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 58
September 2012

How and where do criminals operate? Using Google to track Mexican drug trafficking organizations
Michele Coscia, Viridiana Rios
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 57
August 2012

Socio-Economic Sustainability of Biofuel Production in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from a Jatropha Outgrower Model in Rural Tanzania
Elisa Portale
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 56
January 2012

Tackling the Capability Gap in Utility Firms: Applying Management Research to Infrastructure Sectors
Hagen Worch, Bernhard Truffer, Mundia Kabinga, Jochen Markard, and Anton Eberhard
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 55
January 2012

Integrating Ecosystem Services in Land Use Planning: Concepts and Applications
Davide Geneletti
CID Research Fellow & Graduate Student Working Paper No. 54
January 2012


Daniele Guidi
CID Research Fellow & Graduate Student Working Paper No. 53
October 2011


Guangyou Hao
CID Research Fellow & Graduate Student Working Paper No. 52
August 2011


Juan Pablo Giraldo
CID Research Fellow & Graduate Student Working Paper No. 51
August 2011


B. Kelsey Jack
CID Research Fellow & Graduate Student Working Paper No. 50
May 2011


Robyn Meeks
CID Research Fellow & Graduate Student Working Paper No. 49
April 2011


C. Ksoll, R. Macchiavello, and A. Morjaria
CID Research Fellow & Graduate Student Working Paper No. 48
December 2010


Jon Marco Church
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 47
September 2010


Cristobal Marshall
CID Working Paper No. 46
July 2010


Stefan Jansen
CID Working Paper No. 45
April 2010


Giovanna d'Adda
CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper No. 44
February 2010


Eduardo Rodriguez-Oreggia
CID Working Paper No. 43
January 2010


Carlos Guerrero de Lizardi
CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 42
January 2010


Karrar Hussain
CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 41, October 2009


Esther Mwangi, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Yan Sun
CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 40, October 2009


Karrar Hussain
CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 39, October 2009


Dany Bahar
CID Graduate Student and Research Fellow Working Paper No. 38, May 2009


Kira JM Matus
CID Graduate Student and Research Fellow Working Paper No. 37, May, 2009


Suerie Moon
CID Graduate Student and Research Fellow Working Paper No. 36, May, 2009


Kelsey B. Jack
CID Graduate Student and Research Fellow Working Paper No. 35, May 2009


Elizabeth C. McNie, Meine van Noordwijk, William C. Clark, Nancy M. Dickson, Niken Sakuntaladewi, Suyanto, Laxman Joshi, Beria Leimona, Kurniatun Hairiah, and Noviana Khususiyah
CID Graduate Student and Research Fellow Working Paper No. 34, December 2008

Think Locally, Act Globally: New Challenges to Environmental Governance
Marcel Bursztyn
CID Graduate Student and Research Fellow Working Paper No. 33, In Press


Krister Andersson, Michael Burns, Marcel Bursztyn, Adam Douglas Henry, Ann Laudati, Kira Matus, Elizabeth McNie
CID Graduate Student and Research Fellow Working Paper No. 32, December 2008

Economic Valuation of Mangroves in the Niger Delta: An interdisciplinary approach
Godstime James
CID Graduate Student and Research Fellow Working Paper No. 31, In Press

Ladies First? Gender and the Community Management of Water Infrastructure in Kenya
Jessica Leino
CID Graduate Student and Research Fellow Working Paper No. 30, In Press

Exploring sustainability science from a southern African perspective
Michael Burns and Alex Weaver
CID Graduate Student and Research Fellow Working Paper No. 29, In Press


Luiz Antonio Ferraro Júnior and Marcel Burztyn
CID Graduate Student and Research Fellow Working Paper No. 28, December 2008


Vanessa Maria de Castro and Marcel Bursztyn
CID Graduate Student and Research Fellow Working Paper No. 27, December 2008


Krister Andersson
CID Graduate Student and Research Fellow Working Paper No. 26, December 2008


David Nkedianye, Dickson Kaelo, Robin Reid, Moses Neselle, Leonard Onetu, Ogeli Makui, Mohammed Said, Steven Kiruswa, Patti Kristjanson, Ololtisatti Kamuaro, Shem Kifugo, Nancy Dickson, and William Clark
CID Graduate Student and Research Fellow Working Paper No. 25, December 2008


Marcel Bursztyn
CID Graduate Student and Research Fellow Working Paper No. 24, February 2008


Manoj Mohanan
CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 23, January 2008


Ashwini Chhatre
CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 22, November 2007


Juergen Weichselgartner
CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 21, October 2007


Andres Zahler
CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 20, August 2007


Justin Yifu Lin and Pengfei Zhang
CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 19, July 2007


Katharine R. E. Sims and Jenny Schuetz
CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 18, May 2007


Justin Yifu Lin and Pengfei Zhang
CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 17, March 2007


Bailey Klinger
CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 16, February 2007


B. Kelsey Jack, Carolyn Kousky, and Katharine Emans Sims
CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 15, January 2007


Smita Srinivas and Judith Sutz
CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 13, November 2006


Nicole Szlezák
CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 12, August 2006


Doug Johnson and Tristan Zajonc
CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 11, April 2006


Dagmar Schröter
CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 10, July 2005


Grant Miller
CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 9, May 2005


Joyce J. Chen
CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 8, May 2005


Emily Oster
CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 7, March 2005 (Revised September 2005)


Filipe R. Campante, Davin Chor, and Quoc-Anh Do
CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 6, March 2005


Henrik Selin and Björn-Ola Linnér
CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 5, January 2005


Emily Oster
CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 4, January 2005


Vanessa Timmer
CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 3, November 2004


Vanessa Timmer
CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 2, November 2004


Davin Chor
CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 1, September 2004