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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. 

CID Faculty Research Insights

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Global Evidence on Gender Gaps and Generative AI
Rembrand Koning
Working Paper No. 25-023
Generative AI has the potential to transform productivity and reduce inequality, but only if adopted broadly. In this paper, we show that recently identified gender gaps in…
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Gestational weight gain at the national, regional, and income group levels based on 234 national household surveys from 70 low-income and middle-income countries
Wafaie W. Fawzi
Vol. 4, Issue 9
Gestational weight gain (GWG) estimates enable the identification of populations of women at risk for adverse outcomes. We described GWG distribution in low- and middle-income…
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The Effects of Vitamin D Supplementation During Pregnancy on Maternal, Neonatal, and Infant Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Christopher Sudfeld
Context: Previous research linked vitamin D deficiency in pregnancy to adverse pregnancy outcomes. Objective: Update a 2017 systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized…
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Export-led Growth
Ricardo Hausmann
Working Paper No. 231
In this paper, I argue that a focus on exports, both at the intensive margin (where existing products increase their volume), but especially at the extensive margin (where new…
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Health and Economic Growth: Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence
David Bloom
Working Paper No. 26003
Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The macro-based approach tends to yield estimates that are either…
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Global maternal mortality projections by urban/rural location and education level: a simulation-based analysis
Rifat A. Atun
Vol. 72
Background: Maternal mortality remains a challenge in global health, with well-known disparities across countries. However, less is known about disparities in maternal health by…
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Bridging the Gap Between Imagined and Plausible Futures for Refugees: What Students Wish Their Teachers Knew
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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Optimizing Interventions for Early Childhood Development
Wafaie W. Fawzi
Vol. 331, Issue 1, Pages 25-27
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Impact of the influx of Syrian refugees on domestic violence against Jordanian women: Evidence from the 2017–18 Jordan Population and Family Health Survey
Sebastian Bauhoff
Vol. 18, Issue 11
The 2011 Syrian crisis led to a large influx of refugees into neighboring countries, including Jordan. The resulting stress on local host communities could heighten the risk of…
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Sovereign Debt: 200 years of creditor losses
Carmen Reinhart
Working Paper No. 32599
We study sovereign external debt crises with a focus on creditor losses, or "haircuts". Our sample covers 321 sovereign debt restructurings with external private creditors over…