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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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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…
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Juan Saavedra
Pages 499-590
This chapter reviews the extensive literature to date on CCTs for education. Section 2 provides background on the origins and expansion of CCTs globally, and describes basic…
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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…
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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…
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Catherine Elizabeth Snow
Vol. 35, Issue 4, Pages 667-690
Research Findings: Prior research has demonstrated the importance of young children’s executive functioning (EF) skills for their success in schooling and beyond. However, the…
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Stefanie Stantcheva
Working Paper No. 31688
We investigate the origins and implications of zero-sum thinking – the belief that gains for one individual or group tend to come at the cost of others. Using a new survey of a…
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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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Vincent Pons
Working Paper No. 32342
Recent social movements stand out by their spontaneous nature and lack of stable leadership, raising doubts on their ability to generate political change. This article provides…
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Jane Kim
We investigated the effectiveness of a sustained and spiraled content literacy intervention that emphasizes building domain and topic knowledge schemas and vocabulary for…