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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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Emily Breza
Vol. 91, Issue 4, Pages 1884-1922
In disseminating information, policymakers face a choice between broadcasting to everyone and informing a small number of “seeds” who then spread the message. While broadcasting…
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David Yang
Working Paper No. 32701
Venture capital plays an important role in funding and shaping innovation outcomes, characterized by investors’ deep knowledge of the technology, industry, and institutions, as…
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Margaret McConnell
Vol. 178, Issue 7, Pages 725-727
Only half of eligible pregnant women participate in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). To improve participation, federal…
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Winnie Yip
Vol. 102, Issue 7, Pages 509-520
Objective: To examine how a general inpatient satisfaction survey functions as a hospital performance measure. Methods: We conducted a mixed-methods pilot study of the Hospital…
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Wafaie W. Fawzi
Vol. 9, Issue 7, Pages e523-e532
The African Union and the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Call to Action in 2022 for Africa's New Public Health Order that underscored the need for…
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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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Marcia C.de Castro
Vol. 36, Pages 100803
The pivotal study of the evolving growth trajectories of more than 5 million Brazilian children not only describes Brazil's progress in improving child health outcomes but also…
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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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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,…