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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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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,…
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David Canning
Vol. 55, Issue 4, Pages 349-359
Estimates of unwanted family planning (UFP), which are based on a desire to have a child in the next nine months among current contraceptive users, exclude women who are…
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Christopher Sudfeld
Vol. 34, Issue 2, Pages 112-118
Background: Low-and middle-income countries face a double burden of malnutrition. However, comprehensive, population-based nutritional assessments are rare, particularly across…
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Christopher Sudfeld
Vol. 102, Pages 852-860
Objective: To evaluate the effect of a mobile health (mHealth) intervention on early retention of female sex workers in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) pre-exposure prophylaxis…
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Edward L. Glaeser
Cities are the nodes on our global lattice of travel and trade. They are the ports of entry for goods, people, ideas—and for viruses. The second of the IMF’s three critical…
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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…
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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,…
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Christopher Sudfeld
Vol. 14, Pages e081759
Objectives: Identifying the barriers and facilitators for Chadian youth (aged 15-24 years) along the pathway of access to HIV information and health services. Study design:…
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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),…
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Goodarz Danaei
Vol. 404, Issue 10467, Pages 2021-2130
Background: Diabetes can be detected at the primary health-care level, and effective treatments lower the risk of complications. There are insufficient data on the coverage of…