Faculty Publications

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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Comparative analysis of 2 approaches to monitor countries' progress towards full and equal access to sexual and reproductive health care, information, and education in 75 countries: An observational validation study

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…

The cost of not investing in the next 1000 days: implications for policy and practice

Aisha Khizar Yousafzai

Vol. 404, Issue 10467

Building on the evidence from the first paper in this Series highlighting the fundamental importance of healthy and nurturing environments for children's growth and development in…

Fighting Climate Change: International Attitudes Toward Climate Policies

Stefanie Stantcheva

Working Paper No. 30265

This paper explores global perceptions and understanding of climate change and policies, examining factors that influence support for climate action and the impact of different…

How to construct a new global order

Dani Rodrik

Vol. 40, Pages 256-268

We advance principles for the construction of a stable and broadly beneficial world order that does not require significant commonality in interests and values among states. In…

Zero-Sum Environments, the Evolution of Effort-Suppressing Beliefs, and Economic Development

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…

A meta-analytic review of the implementation characteristics in parenting interventions to promote early child development

Aisha Khizar Yousafzai

Vol. 1533, Issue 1, Pages 99-144

This review summarizes the implementation characteristics of parenting interventions to promote early child development (ECD) outcomes from birth to 3 years. We included 134…

The Global Distribution of Authorship in Economics Journals

Dani Rodrik

Working Paper No. 29435

We assemble a dataset of the universe of economics and business journal articles published since 1980 to assess differences in the levels and trends of the global distribution of…

Political economy of refugees: How responsibility shapes the politics of education

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…

Investing in school systems: conceptualising returns on investment across the health, education and social protection sectors

Stéphane Verguet

Vol. 8, Issue 12

Public policies often aim to improve welfare, economic injustice and reduce inequality, particularly in the social protection, labour, health and education sectors. While these…

Investing in school systems: conceptualising returns on investment across the health, education and social protection sectors

Stéphane Verguet

Vol. 8, Issue 12, Pages e012545

Public policies often aim to improve welfare, economic injustice and reduce inequality, particularly in the social protection, labour, health and education sectors. While these…

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