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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Economics of Education Review

Alejandro Ganimian

Vol. 99, Pages 102518

Providing principals with low-stakes information on their students’ test scores has been shown to improve school management, instruction, and achievement in upper-middle income…

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 association of travel distance and other patient characteristics with breast cancer stage at diagnosis and treatment completion at a rural Rwandan cancer facility

Marcia C.de Castro

Vol. 25

Background: Butaro Cancer Center of Excellence (BCCOE) was founded to serve Rwanda’s rural low-income population, providing subsidized cancer diagnosis and treatment with…

Governance and resilience as entry points for transforming food systems in the countdown to 2030

Christopher Golden

Vol. 6, Pages 105-116

Due to complex interactions, changes in any one area of food systems are likely to impact—and possibly depend on—changes in other areas. Here we present the first annual…

Factors associated with tuberculosis treatment initiation among bacteriologically negative individuals evaluated for tuberculosis: An individual patient data meta-analysis

Nicolas Menzies

Vol. 22, Issue 1, Pages e1004502

Background: Globally, over one-third of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) disease diagnoses are made based on clinical criteria after a negative bacteriological test result. There is…

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…

Validation of an observational tool for assessing mother-child and father-child interactions in Mara, Tanzania

Aisha Khizar Yousafzai

A strong body of evidence has underscored the cross-cultural importance of nurturing parent-child relationships for promoting early child development outcomes. However, most…

Human mobility and malaria risk in peri-urban and rural communities in the Peruvian Amazon

Marcia C.de Castro

Vol. 19, Issue e0012058

Background: While the global burden of malaria cases has decreased over the last two decades, the disease remains a major international threat, even on the rise in many regions.…

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…

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