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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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Raffaella Sadun
Working Paper No. 25-033
Firms are key to economic development, and CEOs are key to firm productivity. Are firms in countries at varying stages of development led by the right CEOs, and if not, why? We…
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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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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.…
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Mashail Malik
Vol. 86, Issue 1
In developing countries, in-person surveys are frequently conducted in the presence of respondents’ family, friends, or neighbors. What effect, if any, does their presence have on…
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Bruno S. Sergi
The Global South consists of emerging nations with increasing economic and political strength, drawing attention to their unique leadership challenges and opportunities. Visionary…
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Jessica L. Cohen, Nicolas Menzies
Vol. 13, Issue 1, Pages 92
Background: Reactive case detection (RACD) for malaria control has been found effective in low transmission settings, but its impact and cost-effectiveness in moderate-to-high…