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

Showing results 1 - 10 of 66

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…

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…

The false distinction between industrial and economic policy

Celestin Monga

After being disparaged and disdained for decades, industrial policy is back on the global economic agenda. Perhaps the strongest evidence of industrial policy’s rehabilitation is…

The prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors among adults living in extreme poverty

Rifat A. Atun

Vol. 8, Issue 5

Evidence on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor prevalence among adults living below the World Bank's international line for extreme poverty (those with income $1.90 per day…

Tax Simplicity or Simplicity of Evasion? Evidence from Self-Employment Taxes in France

Stefanie Stantcheva

A common complaint about tax systems is that they are too complex and several countries offer simplified regimes to subsets of taxpayers. But do such regimes simplify tax…

Vaccination and screening strategies to accelerate cervical cancer elimination in Norway: a model-based analysis

Jane Kim

Background: Experts have proposed an 'EVEN FASTER' concept targeting age-groups maintaining circulation of human papillomavirus (HPV). We explored effects of the vaccination…

Analysing governments' progress on the right to health

Alicia Yamin

Objective To examine the influence of varying articulations of the right to health under domestic constitutions, legislation and jurisprudence on the scope of legal protection 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…

Hypertension care cascades and reducing inequities in cardiovascular disease in low- and middle-income countries

Stéphane Verguet

Vol. 30, Issue 2, Pages 414-423

Improving hypertension control in low- and middle-income countries has uncertain implications across socioeconomic groups. In this study, we simulated improvements in the…

User-reported quality of care: findings from the first round of the People's Voice Survey in 14 countries

Margaret Kruk

Vol. 12, Issue 1, Pages 112-122

High-quality care is essential for improving health outcomes, although many health systems struggle to maintain good quality. We use data from the People's Voice Survey-a…

��vlog��