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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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Alejandro Ganimian
Vol. 99, Pages 102518
Providing principals with low-stakes information on their students’ test scores has been shown to improve school management, instruction, and achievement in upper-middle income…
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Alejandro Ganimian
Home-visitation programs have improved child development in low- and middle-income countries, but they are costly to scale due to their reliance on trained workers. We evaluated…
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Alejandro Ganimian
Vol. 639, Pages 673–681
Many children from low-income backgrounds worldwide fail to master school mathematics1; however, some children extensively use mental arithmetic outside school2,3. Here we…
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Fernando M. Reimers
Vol. 97, Issue 2
"Este artículo examina la dinámica de la aplicación de reformas a escala para ofrecer oportunidades educativas significativas a los alumnos desfavorecidos. Para contribuir…
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Fernando M. Reimers
Vol. 153, Issue 4, Pages 206-220
I examine the dynamics of implementing at-scale reforms to provide meaningful educational opportunities to disadvantaged students in Mexico. To effectively reduce social…
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Alejandro Ganimian
Vol. 102
This is one of the first studies of the mismatch between students’ test scores and teachers’ estimations of those scores in low- and middle-income countries. Prior studies in high…
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Fernando M. Reimers
Smart classrooms offer innovative opportunities to enhance teaching and learning. However, most existing research in this field predominantly focuses on investigating specific…
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Alejandro Ganimian
Vol. 132, Issue 5, Pages 1565-1602
We use a large-scale randomized experiment to study the impact of augmenting staffing in the world’s largest public early-childhood program: India’s Integrated Child Development…
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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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Fernando M. Reimers
This essay explains that periodic examination of the goals of education is essential for educational institutions to ensure they are adequately preparing students to address the…