Opportunities
CIDER offers a range of internships and fellowship opportunities, connecting you with Cornell faculty who are leaders in development research and practice.
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: the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy (Brooks), and the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business (SC Johnson College), 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 PhD program. Additionally, fellows audit coursework, participate in seminars, attend conferences, and network with faculty.
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.
Featured Events
Thought Summits @ Cornell
Data Science to Build Resilience and Improve Humanitarian Response
Date & Time: May 11 – May 15
By connecting philanthropies and the private sector with Cornell expertise across computer, information, natural and social sciences, the summit aims to spark new research, collaborations, and funding pathways that bring cutting-edge data tools into real-world humanitarian decision-making.
Thought Summits @ Cornell
Data Science to Build Resilience and Improve Humanitarian Response
Title: Applications of Machine Learning and AI to the Targeting of Humanitarian Aid
Speaker: Joshua Blumenstock, Chancellor’s Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Date: Monday, May 11, 4:30 – 6:00pm
Location: G01 Gates Hall
Registration for in-person attendance not required. Refreshments served.
Thought Summits @ Cornell
Data Science to Build Resilience and Improve Humanitarian Response
Title: Data Integration for Small Area Estimation and Nowcasting
Speaker: David Newhouse, Senior Economist, Development Economics Data Group, World Bank
Date: Tuesday, May 12, 4:30 – 6:00pm
Location: G01 Gates Hall
Registration for in-person attendance not required. Refreshments served.
Other Upcoming Events
Monday, May 11, 2026
As part of the Data Science to Build Resilience and Improve Humanitarian Response Thought Summit, hosted by Collaboration for International Development...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
As part of the Data Science to Build Resilience and Improve Humanitarian Response Thought Summit, hosted by Collaboration for International Development...
Past Events
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 Blog
Run by graduate students, postdocs, and predocs, posts include early-career researchers highlighting early-stage projects and research papers. It also includes faculty and practitioner interviews sharing their thoughts on the future of research in development economics and their advice for emerging researchers.
Explore More Centers and Institutes
CIDER is dedicated to tackling the most challenging economic issues to mitigate poverty and hunger. Within the SC Johnson College, numerous other centers and institutes offer diverse areas of expertise. Take the opportunity to delve into these additional groups and the wealth of knowledge they offer.