Faculty affiliates at CID examine trade policy from multiple perspectives, offering research and analysis that provide valuable insights into the complexities of the global economy and the broader ...

IN 2023, then-U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called loneliness an epidemic. In an advisory on the issue, he wrote, “Loneliness is far more than just a bad feeling—it harms both individual and ...

The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment Recommendations: Analysts' Perceptions and Shifting Institutional Logics. George Serafeim, 2014, Paper. "We explore the impact of corporate ...

Shackled to the Past: The Causes and Consequences of Africa’s Slave Trades. Nathan Nunn, August 2008, Book Chapter."This chapter uses statistical techniques to assess whether there is evidence that ...

2024, Opinion: "Are China’s real estate problems different? When we published our paper “Peak China Housing” (based on pre-COVID data) in 2020, our thesis—that China was facing a difficult transition ...

How much does the war in Iran cost? The war costs America two billion dollars each day, says war budgeting expert and Harvard Kennedy School faculty member Linda Bilmes—and will cost at least one ...

Combining decades of experience advancing frontier technologies, on the one hand, and analyzing national security decisionmaking, on the other, we have been collaborating over the past year in an ...

This paper studies external sovereign bonds as an asset class. We compile a new database of 220,000 monthly prices of foreign-currency government bonds traded in London and New York between 1815 (the ...

In the U.S., media coverage of crime, violence, the criminal legal system, and criminal system reform faces perennial issues with racial bias, fear-mongering, elite voices setting the agenda and ...

Money in politics is the subject of great debate at every level of government, yet it has principally been studied at the federal level in the U.S.

A trafficked sex slave could be sold off as a virgin for $7000...a child slave for $20. Siddharth Kara, Harvard University fellow and author of three books on modern-day slavery, talks about the ...

2024, Paper: "This paper explores the impact of financial technology (fintech) on financial in clusion, focusing on the cost of accessing essential financial services as a metric for financial ...