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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Applied Political Analysis for Health System Reform

Michael Reich

Understanding and managing the political context of health policies is crucial to improving the chances of effectively designing, adopting, and implementing health policies and…

Inequalities in tuberculosis control in Ethiopia: A district-level distributional modelling analysis

Stéphane Verguet

Vol. 30, Issue 1, Pages 31-42

Background: Implementation studies indicate that the addition of tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment services into the community health extension workers' tasks—that is ‘task-…

Caregiving for China's one-child generation: a simulation study of caregiving responsibility and impact on women's time use

Ana Langer

Vol. 9, Issue 6, Pages e013400

Introduction: The introduction, strict enforcement and recent exit of China's one-child policy (OCP) resulted in China's demographical changes, and, alongside its epidemiological…

The 1,7-malaria reactive community-based testing and response (1,7-mRCTR) approach in Tanzania: a cost-effectiveness analysis

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…

Effects of comprehensive smoke-free legislation on smoking behaviours and macroeconomic outcomes in Shanghai, China: a difference-in-differences analysis and modelling study

Winnie Yip

Vol. 9, Issue 12

Background: China has one of the highest levels of tobacco consumption globally, and there is no national smoke-free legislation. Although more than 20 Chinese cities have passed…

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…

Uncontrolled Illegal Mining and Garimpo in the Brazilian Amazon

Marcia C.de Castro

Vol. 15, Pages 9847

Mining has played an important role in the economies of South American countries. Although industrial mining prevails in most countries, the expansion of garimpo activity has…

Around the Globe, Governments Lean into AI

Mark Esposito

Vol. 10, Issue 3

Governments around the globe are in a high-stakes race to develop cutting-edge AI systems. But how exactly are they using the technology for their own operations, and what might…

"How I wish we could manage such things": A qualitative assessment of barriers to postpartum hemorrhage management and referral in Kenya

Jessica L. Cohen

Vol. 4, Issue 11, Pages e0003842

Maternal mortality rates in Kenya have remained high, with the country reporting 342 deaths per 100,000 live births. A major contributor to this is postpartum hemorrhage (PPH),…

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…

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