Faculty Publications

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.

CID Faculty Research Insights

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Government Performance and Democracy: Survey Experimental Evidence from 12 Countries during Covid-19

Vincent Pons

Vol. 86, Issue 4

Crises of the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic may plausibly affect deep-seated attitudes of a large fraction ofcitizens. In particular, outcome-oriented theories imply that…

Exports in Disguise: Trade Re-Routing During the U.S.-China Trade War

Ebehi Iyoha

Working Paper No. 24-072

Origin-specific tariffs are a common policy tool; however, critics claim that such tariffs are often circumvented by rerouting goods through intermediary countries. This study…

Coordination and Bandwagon Effects: How Past Rankings Shape the Behavior of Voters and Candidates

Vincent Pons

Vol. 15, Issue 4, Pages 177–217

Candidates’ placements in polls or past elections can be powerful coordination devices for both parties and voters. Using a regression discontinuity design in French elections, we…

Trust and Democracy: Leader Turnover during Economic Crises

Jaya Wen

State Employment as a Strategy of Autocratic Control in China

Jaya Wen

This paper presents evidence that autocrats use state-owned firms to strategically pacify social unrest via employment provision, a role that may contribute to their favorable…

State Employment as a Strategy of Autocratic Control in China

Jaya Wen

COVID-19, Government Performance, and Democracy: Survey Experimental Evidence from 12 Countries

Vincent Pons

Working Paper No. 29514

Subsidising stability: State employment in China

Jaya Wen

Real Exchange Rate Behavior: New Evidence from Matched Retail Goods

Alberto Cavallo

Working Paper No. 20-040

Trust: Creating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Tarun Khanna

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