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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. 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…
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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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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. 10, Issue 1, Pages 45307
There is a gap between the futures that refugee young people imagine will be possible through their education and the plausible futures in exile, where opportunities are truncated…
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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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Catherine Elizabeth Snow
Vol. 9
Children from historically marginalized racial/ethnic and socioeconomic groups, on average, score lower on widely used assessments of academic, executive functioning, and social-…
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Alejandro Ganimian
Vol. 92, Pages 102336
We leverage data on learning for 101,084 public-school students in grades 4, 6, and 8 across 19 Indian states to diagnose their mathematic skills. These data allow us to diagnose…