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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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Jie Bai
This paper studies the impact of FDI via quid pro quo (technology for market access) in facilitating knowledge spillover and quality upgrades. Our context is the Chinese auto-…
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Intranational trade barriers affect firms’ performance in international trade. It remains an empirical challenge to measure these barriers and quantify their impacts. We take…
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Vol. 104, Issue 6, Pages 1121-1137
The existence of collective reputation implies an important externality. Among firms trading internationally, quality shocks about one firms products could affect the demand of…
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We study how search and information frictions shape market dynamics in global e-commerce. Observational data and self-collected quality measures from AliExpress establish the…
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Vol. 111, Pages 381-85
Under the stated goal of improving air quality, many cities in China restricted the import of used vehicles from other cities based on tail pipe emission standards. Using detailed…
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There is often a lack of reliable quality provision in many markets in developing countries and firms generally lack a reputation for quality. One potential explanation is that…
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Vol. 145
This study examines the impact of returns to work, for adult labor and child labor, on child work and schooling outcomes. We propose an empirical strategy that sheds light on the…
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Vol. 129, Issue 618, Pages 651-677