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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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…

Measuring social, economic, policy, and health system determinants of maternal health and survival: An urgent global priority

Ana Langer

Vol. 20, Issue 1, Pages e0317095

In 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) released global targets and strategies for reducing maternal mortality in the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) period developed…

Third Party Presence and the Political Salience of Ethnicity in Survey Data

Mashail Malik

Vol. 86, Issue 1

In developing countries, in-person surveys are frequently conducted in the presence of respondents’ family, friends, or neighbors. What effect, if any, does their presence have on…

Applied Political Analysis for Health System Reform

Michael Reich

Understanding and managing the political context of health policies is crucial to improving the chances of effectively designing, adopting, and implementing health policies and…

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…

Projected health and economic effects of a pan-tuberculosis treatment regimen: a modelling study

Nicolas Menzies

Vol. 12, Issue 10, Pages e1629-e1637

Background: A pan-tuberculosis regimen that could be initiated without knowledge of drug susceptibility has been proposed as an objective of tuberculosis regimen development. We…

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…

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…

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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