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…

Social Movements and Public Opinion in the United States

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…

Human capital affects religious identity: Causal evidence from Kenya

Livia Alfonsi

Vol. 167

We study how human capital and economic conditions causally affect the choice of religious denomination. We utilize a longitudinal dataset monitoring the religious history of more…

Centralization and Organization Reproduction: Ethnic Innovation in R&D Centers and Satellite Locations

Bill Kerr

We study the relationship between firm centralization and organizational reproduction in satellite locations. For decentralized firms, the ethnic compositions of inventors in…

Exploring the intersection between country context and priority setting to prevent maternal mortality: A multi-methods study comparing expected vs observed priorities in five countries to validate the obstetric transition model

Ana Langer

Vol. 13, Pages 4057

Background: The obstetric transition model suggests that, as countries economically develop, the primary causes of maternal mortality change. Countries are assigned to one of five…

Measuring maternal improvement through multi-stakeholder engagement: Documenting developments in the dynamic programmatic context of the global COVID-19 pandemic through outcome harvesting

Ana Langer

Vol. 13, Pages 6016

Background: To bolster country efforts towards meeting the targets and strategies laid out in WHO's report ""Strategies toward ending preventable maternal mortality"" (EPMM), a…

Bridging the Gap with the ‘New’ Economic History of Africa

Marlous van Waijenburg

Vol. 64, Issue 1, Pages 38-61

(Un)principled Agents: Monitoring Loyalty after the End of the Royal African Company Monopoly

Marlous van Waijenburg

Inequality Regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa from Precolonial Times to the Present

Marlous van Waijenburg

Vol. 122, Issue 486, Pages 57-94

What About the Race Between Technology and Education in the Global South? Comparing Skill-premiums in Colonial Africa and Asia

Marlous van Waijenburg

Vol. 76, Issue 3, Pages 941-978

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