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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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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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Oleg Itskhoki
We use a general open-economy wedge-accounting framework to characterize the set of shocks that can account for major exchange rate puzzles. Focusing on a near-autarky behavior of…
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Bruno S. Sergi
Vol. 135
Low reporting quality, as demonstrated by lower earnings informativeness, can exacerbate the information asymmetry gap, particularly in emerging markets. Although recent research…
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Stefanie Stantcheva
This paper studies people’s understanding of inflation–their perceived causes, consequences, trade-offs–and the policies supported to mitigate its effects. We design a new,…
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Bruno S. Sergi
In the intricate landscape of Indonesia’s financial sector, the pronounced stock price volatility stands out as a topic of pressing concern. This volatility, often perceived as a…
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Catherine Elizabeth Snow
Vol. 35, Issue 4, Pages 667-690
Research Findings: Prior research has demonstrated the importance of young children’s executive functioning (EF) skills for their success in schooling and beyond. However, the…
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Stefanie Stantcheva
Working Paper No. 31688
We investigate the origins and implications of zero-sum thinking – the belief that gains for one individual or group tend to come at the cost of others. Using a new survey of a…
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Andrew Dean Ho
I review opportunities and threats that widely accessible Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered services present for educational statistics and measurement. Algorithmic and…
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Gabriel Chodorow-Reich
We use data on stock portfolios of Norwegian households to show that stock market wealth increases entrepreneurship by relaxing financial constraints. Our research design isolates…
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Peter Blair
Licensed workers could be shielded from unemployment during recession since occupational licensing laws are asymmetric—making unlicensed workers an illegal substitute for licensed…