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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The Challenges of Scaling up Effective Child-Rearing Practices Using Technology in Developing Settings: Experimental Evidence From India

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…

Children’s arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic mathematics

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…

The Finance-Innovation Nexus: Implications for Socio-Economic Development

Bruno S. Sergi

Vol. 34

The chapters published in this volume were presented at the SIBR 2023 Tokyo Conference on Interdisciplinary Business and Economic Research organised by the Society of…

Effect of a youth-led early childhood care and education programme on children's development and learning in rural Sindh, Pakistan (LEAPS): a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised implementation trial

Christopher Sudfeld, Aisha Khizar Yousafzai

Background: In low-income and middle-income countries, an estimated 181·9 million (74·6%) preschool-aged children do not receive adequate nurturing care in health, nutrition,…

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…

The development and validity of the Early Learning Tool for children 0–3-year-old in rural Pakistan

Aisha Khizar Yousafzai

Background: Research has demonstrated the critical role that early learning experiences play in shaping children’s cognitive, social, and emotional development. Nevertheless,…

Out of sight, out of mind? The gap between students’ test performance and teachers’ estimations in India and Bangladesh

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…

Equity as a priority in EAT-Lancet-aligned food system transformations

Christopher Golden

Vol. 5, Pages 811-817

Food systems drive human and environmental change, reflect diverse cultural and ecological contexts, and, in their diversity, can bolster nutrition and planetary health. Ignoring…

Investing in the Next Generation: The Long-Run Impacts of a Liquidity Shock

Natalia Rigol

Vol. 114, Issue 9, Pages 2792-2824

Poor entrepreneurs must frequently choose between business investment and children's education. To examine this trade-off, we exploit experimental variation in short-run…

Conditional cash transfers for education

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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