Faculty Publications

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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.

CID Faculty Research Insights

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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,…

Growth through Diversification in Hermosillo

Ricardo Hausmann

Working Paper No. 239

In this report, we study Hermosillo's economic performance and assess critical issues affecting the city’s ability to achieve stronger economic growth. Although Hermosillo is far…

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…

The development and validity of the Early Learning Tool for children 0–3-year-old in rural Pakistan

Aisha Khizar Yousafzai

Background: Research has demonstrated the critical role that early learning experiences play in shaping children’s cognitive, social, and emotional development. Nevertheless,…

The international empirics of management

Raffaella Sadun

Vol. 121, Issue 45, Pages e2412205121

A country’s national income broadly depends on the quantity and quality of workers and capital. But how well these factors are managed within and between firms may be a key…

Out of sight, out of mind? The gap between students’ test performance and teachers’ estimations in India and Bangladesh

Alejandro Ganimian

Vol. 102

This is one of the first studies of the mismatch between students’ test scores and teachers’ estimations of those scores in low- and middle-income countries. Prior studies in high…

Equity as a priority in EAT-Lancet-aligned food system transformations

Christopher Golden

Vol. 5, Pages 811-817

Food systems drive human and environmental change, reflect diverse cultural and ecological contexts, and, in their diversity, can bolster nutrition and planetary health. Ignoring…

Resource shortage in public health facilities and private pharmacy practices in Odisha, India

Winnie Yip

Vol. 39, Issue 10, Pages 1074–1086

In low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs), private pharmacies play a crucial role in the supply of medicines and the provision of healthcare. However, they also engage in poor…

Investing in the Next Generation: The Long-Run Impacts of a Liquidity Shock

Natalia Rigol

Vol. 114, Issue 9, Pages 2792-2824

Poor entrepreneurs must frequently choose between business investment and children's education. To examine this trade-off, we exploit experimental variation in short-run…

Aramco: Navigating the Energy Transition

Tarun Khanna

Working Paper No. 725-358

In March 2024, Amin Nasser, president, and CEO of the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco), had just delivered a speech about the future of energy at a global energy conference. The…

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