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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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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…
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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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Celestin Monga
After being disparaged and disdained for decades, industrial policy is back on the global economic agenda. Perhaps the strongest evidence of industrial policy’s rehabilitation is…
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Alejandro Ganimian
Vol. 132, Issue 5, Pages 1565-1602
We use a large-scale randomized experiment to study the impact of augmenting staffing in the world’s largest public early-childhood program: India’s Integrated Child Development…
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Sarah Dryden-Peterson
Vol. 173
In this theory generating article, we take up the question of what shapes the role of host governments in social service provision for refugees, using the case of education. We…
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Sarah Dryden-Peterson
Vol. 36, Issue 4, Pages 587-603
Education is one of the key tools of nation-building, as it aims to create future citizens. Yet what happens in seemingly ‘futureless’ contexts where refugees cannot access even…
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Michael Woolcock
Working Paper No. 10051
Responding effectively and with professional integrity to the many challenges of public administration requires recognizing that access to more and better quantitative data is…
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Dani Rodrik
Working Paper No. 2023-07
In the context of a shift towards longer-term, public-value-oriented economic thinking, there is a real opportunity to reimagine the contracts that structure public-private…
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Jie Bai
Intranational trade barriers affect firms’ performance in international trade. It remains an empirical challenge to measure these barriers and quantify their impacts. We take…