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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. 

CID Faculty Research Insights

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Research: The Costs of Circumventing Tariffs
Jaya Wen
When tariffs are levied against a specific country, that country might attempt to circumvent the tariff by rerouting products through a third country to avoid the higher taxes.…
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Exports in Disguise: Trade Rerouting during the US-China Trade War?
Jaya Wen
Our work explores the extent of trade rerouting through Vietnam during the 2018–2019 US-China trade war. We found that the level of rerouting varied significantly depending on the…
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Using Satellites and Phones to Evaluate and Promote Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Smallholder Farms in India
Shawn Cole
Working Paper No. 25-035
This paper evaluates a low-cost, customized soil nutrient management advisory service in India. As a methodological contribution, we examine whether and in which settings…
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The international empirics of management
Raffaella Sadun
Vol. 121, Issue 45, Pages e2412205121
A country’s national income broadly depends on the quantity and quality of workers and capital. But how well these factors are managed within and between firms may be a key…
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Global Evidence on Gender Gaps and Generative AI
Rembrand Koning
Working Paper No. 25-023
Generative AI has the potential to transform productivity and reduce inequality, but only if adopted broadly. In this paper, we show that recently identified gender gaps in…
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Technological Adoption and Taxation: The Case of China’s Golden Tax Reform
Jaya Wen
Vol. 38, Pages 101-122
This paper investigates the effect of Phase 2 of the Golden Tax Project on the value-added tax (VAT) in China. The reform introduced computer-generated invoices and electronic…
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Retail Investors’ Contrarian Behavior Around News, Attention, and the Momentum Effect
Luis M. Viceira
Using a large panel of U.S. brokerage accounts trades and positions, we show that a large fraction of retail investors trade as contrarians after large earnings surprises,…
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship: New Estimates and a Research Agenda
Bill Kerr
Working Paper No. 24-068
Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the…
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Everyone Steps Back? The Widespread Retraction of Crowd-Funding Support for Minority Creators when Migration Fear is High
Bill Kerr
Working Paper No. 23-046
We study racial biases on Kickstarter across multiple ethnic groups from 2009-2021. Scaling the concept of racially salient events, we quantify the close co-movement of minority…
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Davivienda Bank's Upskilling and Reskilling Strategy in Colombia
Raffaella Sadun
Working Paper No. 724-425
Set in 2022, this case describes the digital transformation strategy of Davivienda— a leading player in Colombia’s commercial banking and one of the companies belonging to Grupo…