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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. 

CID Faculty Research Insights

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De facto Openness to Immigration
Ricardo Hausmann
Various factors influence why some countries are more open to immigration than others. Policy is only one of them. We design country-specific measures of openness to immigration…
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Displaced Learners: Early Integration of Ukrainian Refugee Students into Italy’s Schools
Michela Carlana
The paper examines the early integration of Ukrainian refugee students into Italy's education system following the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.…
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The U.S. Place-Based Policy Supply Chain
Dani Rodrik, Gordon Hanson
Place-based policy in the United States comprises a wide range of government programs that are spread across federal, state, and local agencies and that rely on public, private,…
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Vanguard: Black Veterans and Civil Rights after World War I
Desmond Ang
Nearly 400,000 Black men were drafted into the National Army during World War I, where they toiled in segregated units and received little formal training. Leveraging novel…
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Building Capacity to Measure Sustainability: Lessons from scholarship and practice
William Clark
One of the longest standing challenges facing both research and practice in sustainable development is the design and implementation of methods for measuring progress towards…
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Mean Reversion in Randomized Controlled Trials: Implications for Program Targeting and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
Marcella Alsan
Eligibility criteria for interventions can induce an Ashenfelter Dip, and subsequent mean-reversion may result in improvement over time even absent the intervention. We…
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The Hidden Health Care Crisis Behind Bars: A Randomized Trial to Accredit U.S. Jails
Marcella Alsan
The U.S. has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, with over seven million individuals admitted to jails each year. These incarcerated individuals are the only…
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Community Targeting at Scale
Rema Hanna
Community-based targeting, in which communities allocate social assistance using local information about who is poor, in experimental settings leads to nuanced allocations that…
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Fiscal policy and the pandemic-era surge in US inflation: Lessons for the future
Douglas Elmendorf, Karen Dynan
In the United States, massive fiscal expansion during the pandemic protected households and helped to return output and unemployment nearly to pre-pandemic expectations by the end…
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Places versus People: The Ins and Outs of Labor Market Adjustment to Globalization
We analyze the distinct adjustment paths of U.S. labor markets (places) and U.S. workers (people) to increased Chinese import competition during the 2000s. Using comprehensive…