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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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Ana Langer
Vol. 21, Issue 12, Pages e1004476
Background: Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Indicator 5.6.2 is the "Number of countries with laws and regulations that guarantee full and equal access to women and men aged 15…
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Augustin Bergeron
Working Paper No. 31663
We study the evolution of belief systems that suppress productive effort, including beliefs about envy, the importance of luck for success, witchcraft beliefs, and disdain for…
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Sarah Dryden-Peterson
This study analyzes how un/belonging is experienced by Somali refugee students in public primary schools in the Bole Michael area of Addis Ababa. Drawing on data from interviews…
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Livia Alfonsi
Vol. 167
We study how human capital and economic conditions causally affect the choice of religious denomination. We utilize a longitudinal dataset monitoring the religious history of more…
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Michael Woolcock
Working Paper No. 10051
Responding effectively and with professional integrity to the many challenges of public administration requires recognizing that access to more and better quantitative data is…
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Joseph Henrich
Large language models (LLMs) have recently made vast advances in both generating and analyzing textual data. Technical reports often compare LLMs’ outputs with “human” performance…
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Joseph Henrich
Working Paper No. 31663
We study the evolution of belief systems that suppress productive effort. These include concerns about the envy of others, beliefs in the importance of luck for success, disdain…
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Ana Langer
Vol. 13, Pages 4057
Background: The obstetric transition model suggests that, as countries economically develop, the primary causes of maternal mortality change. Countries are assigned to one of five…
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Ana Langer
Vol. 13, Pages 6016
Background: To bolster country efforts towards meeting the targets and strategies laid out in WHO's report ""Strategies toward ending preventable maternal mortality"" (EPMM), a…