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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Argentina’s Disinflation: An International and Historical Perspective

Rafael Di Tella

Vol. 45, Issue 1

The cost of not investing in the next 1000 days: implications for policy and practice

Dana McCoy

Vol. 404, Issue 10467, Pages 2117-2130

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…

Social Enterprise in the MENA Region

Brian Trelstad

This research note provides an overview of the socio-economic landscape of social enterprise in the Middle East and North Africa. It highlights the diversity of players in the…

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…

Health and economic growth: Reconciling the micro and macro evidence

David Canning

Vol. 178, Pages 106575

Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The macro-based approach tends to yield estimates that are either…

The prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors among adults living in extreme poverty

Rifat A. Atun

Vol. 8, Issue 5

Evidence on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor prevalence among adults living below the World Bank's international line for extreme poverty (those with income $1.90 per day…

Capital Taxation, Development, and Globalization: Evidence from a Macro-Historical Database

Anders Jensen

Working Paper No. 29819

This paper builds and analyzes a new global macro-historical database of effective tax rates on capital and labor in 154 countries. We establish a new stylized fact: while…

Analysing governments' progress on the right to health

Alicia Yamin

Objective To examine the influence of varying articulations of the right to health under domestic constitutions, legislation and jurisprudence on the scope of legal protection for…

Hypertension care cascades and reducing inequities in cardiovascular disease in low- and middle-income countries

Stéphane Verguet

Vol. 30, Issue 2, Pages 414-423

Improving hypertension control in low- and middle-income countries has uncertain implications across socioeconomic groups. In this study, we simulated improvements in the…

Political economy of refugees: How responsibility shapes the politics of education

Sarah Dryden-Peterson

Vol. 173

In this theory generating article, we take up the question of what shapes the role of host governments in social service provision for refugees, using the case of education. We…

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