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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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Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights: Advances and Setbacks
Alicia Yamin
Vol. 53, Issue S1, Pages 66-68
This article first describes shifts in human rights law that have led to improvements in the realization of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) over the last decade.…
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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…
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A Dangerous Departure: The Inter-American Court’s Failure to Squarely Address Abortion in Beatriz v El Salvador
Alicia Yamin
The modern international human rights system was created to protect universal values of dignity and equality from national laws that attacked those norms and weaponized the state…
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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…
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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…
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Estimated Health and Economic Outcomes of Racial and Ethnic Tuberculosis Disparities in US-Born Persons
Nicolas Menzies
Vol. 7, Issue 9
Importance: Despite significant progress made toward tuberculosis (TB) elimination, racial and ethnic disparities persist in TB incidence and case-fatality rates in the US.…
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The New Digital Divide
Raffaella Sadun
Working Paper No. 32932
We build and analyze new metrics of digital usage that leverage telemetry data collected by Microsoft during operating system updates across forty million Windows devices in U.S.…
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Perceptions of Racial Gaps, their Causes, and Ways to Reduce Them
Stefanie Stantcheva
Working Paper No. 29245
This paper studies how beliefs about racial inequalities and their causes vary and shape support for race-targeted and redistribution policies among Black and white Americans,…
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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…
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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…