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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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Raffaella Sadun
Working Paper No. 25-033
Firms are key to economic development, and CEOs are key to firm productivity. Are firms in countries at varying stages of development led by the right CEOs, and if not, why? We…
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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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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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Livia Alfonsi
Working Paper No. 32785
The Covid-19 pandemic represents one of the most significant labor market shocks to the world economy in recent times. We present evidence from a field experiment to understand…
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Rembrand Koning
Working Paper No. 724-393
This case delves into the expansion strategy of Foodology, a cloud kitchen startup based in Bogotá that operated across four Latin American countries (Colombia, Brazil, Mexico,…
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Jaya Wen
Vol. 114, Pages 75–79
Low- and middle-income nations host 76 percent of the world's refugees. This study uses original data to explore within-country spatial variability in refugee-hosting…
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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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Bill Kerr
Working Paper No. 24-044
We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of…
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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…
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Livia Alfonsi
Vol. 22, Issue 3, Pages 999-1046
We investigate gender disparities in the effect of COVID-19 on the labor market outcomes of skilled Ugandan workers. Leveraging a high-frequency panel dataset, we find that the…