Faculty Publications

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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Accountability in Developing Democracies: The Impact of the Internet, Social Media, and Polarization

Pia Raffler

Vol. 28, Pages 413-434

This article reviews the recent literature on accountability in developing democracies through the lens of two nested principal–agent problems: the relationship between voters and…

The Inverted U-Shaped Relationship between Female Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

Edward L. Glaeser

Working Paper No. 33608

In the World Bank Enterprise Survey, the share of entrepreneurs who are women first rises and then falls with national income, which reverses the well-known U-shaped relationship…

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…

Global Evidence on Gender Gaps and Generative AI

Rembrand Koning

Working Paper No. 25-023

Generative AI has the potential to transform productivity and reduce inequality, but only if adopted broadly. In this paper, we show that recently identified gender gaps in…

Gestational weight gain at the national, regional, and income group levels based on 234 national household surveys from 70 low-income and middle-income countries

Wafaie W. Fawzi

Vol. 4, Issue 9

Gestational weight gain (GWG) estimates enable the identification of populations of women at risk for adverse outcomes. We described GWG distribution in low- and middle-income…

The Effects of Vitamin D Supplementation During Pregnancy on Maternal, Neonatal, and Infant Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Christopher Sudfeld

Context: Previous research linked vitamin D deficiency in pregnancy to adverse pregnancy outcomes. Objective: Update a 2017 systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized…

Global maternal mortality projections by urban/rural location and education level: a simulation-based analysis

Rifat A. Atun

Vol. 72

Background: Maternal mortality remains a challenge in global health, with well-known disparities across countries. However, less is known about disparities in maternal health by…

Bridging the Gap Between Imagined and Plausible Futures for Refugees: What Students Wish Their Teachers Knew

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…

Optimizing Interventions for Early Childhood Development

Wafaie W. Fawzi

Vol. 331, Issue 1, Pages 25-27

Impact of the influx of Syrian refugees on domestic violence against Jordanian women: Evidence from the 2017–18 Jordan Population and Family Health Survey

Sebastian Bauhoff

Vol. 18, Issue 11

The 2011 Syrian crisis led to a large influx of refugees into neighboring countries, including Jordan. The resulting stress on local host communities could heighten the risk of…

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