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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The Challenges of Scaling up Effective Child-Rearing Practices Using Technology in Developing Settings: Experimental Evidence From India

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…

Children’s arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic mathematics

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…

Using Satellites and Phones to Evaluate and Promote Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Smallholder Farms in India

Shawn Cole

Working Paper No. 25-035

This paper evaluates a low-cost, customized soil nutrient management advisory service in India. As a methodological contribution, we examine whether and in which settings…

The international empirics of management

Raffaella Sadun

Vol. 121, Issue 45, Pages e2412205121

A country’s national income broadly depends on the quantity and quality of workers and capital. But how well these factors are managed within and between firms may be a key…

Out of sight, out of mind? The gap between students’ test performance and teachers’ estimations in India and Bangladesh

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…

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…

Investing in the Next Generation: The Long-Run Impacts of a Liquidity Shock

Natalia Rigol

Vol. 114, Issue 9, Pages 2792-2824

Poor entrepreneurs must frequently choose between business investment and children's education. To examine this trade-off, we exploit experimental variation in short-run…

JUE insight: Infrastructure and Finance: Evidence from India’s GQ highway network

Bill Kerr

Vol. 142

We use data from Reserve Bank of India to study the impact of India’s Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on finance-dependent activity. Loan volumes increase by 20%–30% in…

Refugees Are Hosted in Highly Vulnerable Communities

Jaya Wen

Vol. 114, Pages 75–79

Low- and middle-income nations host 76 percent of the world's refugees. This study uses original data to explore within-country spatial variability in refugee-hosting…

Augmenting state capacity for child development: Experimental evidence from India

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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