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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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David Yang
Working Paper No. 31617
Citizens have long taken to the streets to demand change, expressing political views that may otherwise be suppressed. Protests have produced change at local, national, and…
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Stefanie Stantcheva
Working Paper No. 30265
This paper explores global perceptions and understanding of climate change and policies, examining factors that influence support for climate action and the impact of different…
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Augustin Bergeron
Vol. 92, Issue 4, Pages 1163-1193
This paper investigates how tax rates and tax enforcement jointly impact fiscal capacity in low‐income countries. We study a policy experiment in the D.R. Congo that randomly…
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Augustin Bergeron
Working Paper No. 31663
We study the evolution of belief systems that suppress productive effort, including beliefs about envy, the importance of luck for success, witchcraft beliefs, and disdain for…
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Sarah Dryden-Peterson
This study analyzes how un/belonging is experienced by Somali refugee students in public primary schools in the Bole Michael area of Addis Ababa. Drawing on data from interviews…
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David Yang
Working Paper No. 32193
Global innovation and entrepreneurship has traditionally been dominated by a handful of high-income countries, especially the US. This paper investigates the international…
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Bruno S. Sergi
This book elaborates on the modern experience and prospects and the development of recommendations for sustainable development of the agrarian economy based on digital…
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Bruno S. Sergi
This book is devoted to the systems rethinking of the role of the leading digital technologies and circular innovations to reduce the environmental footprint of the modern economy…
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Sarah Dryden-Peterson
Vol. 173
In this theory generating article, we take up the question of what shapes the role of host governments in social service provision for refugees, using the case of education. We…
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Sarah Dryden-Peterson
Vol. 36, Issue 4, Pages 587-603
Education is one of the key tools of nation-building, as it aims to create future citizens. Yet what happens in seemingly ‘futureless’ contexts where refugees cannot access even…