What is CIDER?

CIDER brings together experts in development economics—in particular on poverty, food insecurity, agricultural and rural development, health and education, risk management, and firm and market behavior—to build on Cornell’s legacy of global development innovation. Our programs foster collaborations among faculty, staff, students, and research fellows from four units across campus to help sustainably solve the economic challenges people face around the world.

Our purpose

Cornell has long been a global leader in international development economics research, teaching, and outreach. Cornell was the main academic incubator of Asia’s Green Revolution and developed the world’s main poverty and food insecurity measures, along with other seminal theories, methods, and empirical findings. CIDER sustains that tradition, fostering collaborations among Cornell faculty, staff, students, and external partners worldwide by working to reduce poverty, hunger, and human suffering.

Programs

STARS Fellowship

The Structural Transformation of Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STARS) Fellowship pairs early-career researchers who have earned degrees from low- and lower-middle-income countries with mentors at Cornell and affiliated institutions to strengthen research capacity, reinforce effective policy research and build networks.

Predoctoral Research Fellows

The CIDER Predoctoral Fellowship Program provides one to three years of research experience and professional development training with core faculty, typically before entering a Ph.D. program. Additionally, Fellows audit coursework, participate in seminars, attend conferences and network with faculty.

Opportunities

CIDER offers a range of internships and fellowship opportunities, connecting you with Cornell faculty who are leaders in development research and practice.

EXPLORE OPPORTUNITIES

The people behind CIDER

CIDER encompasses core faculty and research staff, affiliated faculty, graduate students, predoctoral research fellows and external partners worldwide. These people make CIDER’s work possible.

EXPLORE CIDER FACULTY AND STAFF

Past events

From Data to Impact: Reshaping Development in the Digital Age
CIDER faculty are leveraging emerging data ecosystems, advanced analytics and mobile technologies to tackle critical challenges in the developing world.

Researchers share how they are advancing the frontier of poverty measurement using machine learning and creating new economic opportunities in remote communities through mobile phones.

Research and publications

CIDER supports research by Cornell faculty and graduate students. The STARS Fellowship also promotes research by early-career academics from low- and lower-middle-income countries.

CIDER faculty research

CIDER faculty research spans a variety of contemporary development topics, including agriculture, food security, health and nutrition, environmental sustainability, structural transformation, emerging markets, and risk and resilience.

STARS research

STARS alumni have conducted research on a variety of topics, including agriculture, diet and nutrition, food security, natural resource management, poverty dynamics, risk and resilience, technological change, and value chains.

Economics That Really Matters

Early-career researchers highlight early-stage projects and research papers. It also includes faculty and practitioner interviews on the future of research in development economics and their advice for emerging researchers. Run by graduate students, postdocs and predocs.