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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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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…
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Shekhar Saxena
There is a growing recognition of the impact of social determinants of mental health (SDoMHs) on people with, or at risk of, developing serious mental illnesses. Yet it is not…
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Shekhar Saxena
Vol. 102, Issue 5, Pages 323-329
Despite increased advocacy and investments in mental health systems globally, there has been limited progress in reducing mental disorder prevalence. In this paper, we argue that…
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Stefanie Stantcheva
This paper provides new evidence on a long-standing question asked by Shiller (1997): Why do we dislike inflation? I conducted two surveys on representative samples of the US…
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Alejandro Ganimian
Vol. 132, Issue 5, Pages 1565-1602
We use a large-scale randomized experiment to study the impact of augmenting staffing in the world’s largest public early-childhood program: India’s Integrated Child Development…
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Augustin Bergeron
Working Paper No. 31663
We study the evolution of belief systems that suppress productive effort, including beliefs about envy, the importance of luck for success, witchcraft beliefs, and disdain for…
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Nicolas Menzies
Vol. 25, Issue 1
Background: Antenatal balanced energy and protein (BEP) supplements have well-documented benefits for pregnancy outcomes. However, considerable practical gaps remain in the…
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Stefanie Stantcheva
A common complaint about tax systems is that they are too complex and several countries offer simplified regimes to subsets of taxpayers. But do such regimes simplify tax…
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Goodarz Danaei
Vol. 31, Issue 6, Pages 723-731
Aims: We compared the performance of cardiovascular risk prediction tools in rural India. Methods and results: We applied the World Health Organization Risk Score (WHO-RS) tools,…