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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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Alejandro Ganimian
Home-visitation programs have improved child development in low- and middle-income countries, but they are costly to scale due to their reliance on trained workers. We evaluated…
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Alejandro Ganimian
Vol. 639, Pages 673–681
Many children from low-income backgrounds worldwide fail to master school mathematics1; however, some children extensively use mental arithmetic outside school2,3. Here we…
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Alejandro Ganimian
Vol. 102
This is one of the first studies of the mismatch between students’ test scores and teachers’ estimations of those scores in low- and middle-income countries. Prior studies in high…
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Alejandro Ganimian
Vol. 132, Issue 5, Pages 1565-1602
We use a large-scale randomized experiment to study the impact of augmenting staffing in the world’s largest public early-childhood program: India’s Integrated Child Development…
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Catherine Elizabeth Snow
Pages 45307
Bilinguals often outperform monolinguals at apprehending the perspectives of others—an apparent consequence of their experiences moving across linguistic and sociocultural…
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Sarah Dryden-Peterson
Vol. 10, Issue 1, Pages 45307
There is a gap between the futures that refugee young people imagine will be possible through their education and the plausible futures in exile, where opportunities are truncated…
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Sarah Dryden-Peterson
Vol. 173
In this theory generating article, we take up the question of what shapes the role of host governments in social service provision for refugees, using the case of education. We…
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Sarah Dryden-Peterson
Vol. 36, Issue 4, Pages 587-603
Education is one of the key tools of nation-building, as it aims to create future citizens. Yet what happens in seemingly ‘futureless’ contexts where refugees cannot access even…
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Sarah Dryden-Peterson
Vol. 36, Issue 4, Pages 782-801
Limitations on membership and participation in host societies sharply constrain refugee young people’s civic development. Especially when refugees attend national schools, they…