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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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Goodarz Danaei
Vol. 5, Issue 4, Pages e0004388
Undernutrition in early childhood is associated with adverse health and developmental outcomes later in life and remains a persistent global public health problem. Providing small…
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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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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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Ana Langer
Vol. 20, Issue 1, Pages e0317095
In 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) released global targets and strategies for reducing maternal mortality in the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) period developed…
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Mashail Malik
Vol. 86, Issue 1
In developing countries, in-person surveys are frequently conducted in the presence of respondents’ family, friends, or neighbors. What effect, if any, does their presence have on…
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Michael Reich
Understanding and managing the political context of health policies is crucial to improving the chances of effectively designing, adopting, and implementing health policies and…
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Christopher Sudfeld, Aisha Khizar Yousafzai
Background: In low-income and middle-income countries, an estimated 181·9 million (74·6%) preschool-aged children do not receive adequate nurturing care in health, nutrition,…
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David Canning
Vol. 55, Issue 4, Pages 349-359
Estimates of unwanted family planning (UFP), which are based on a desire to have a child in the next nine months among current contraceptive users, exclude women who are…
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Aisha Khizar Yousafzai
Vol. 404, Issue 10467
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…
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Nicolas Menzies
Vol. 12, Issue 10, Pages e1629-e1637
Background: A pan-tuberculosis regimen that could be initiated without knowledge of drug susceptibility has been proposed as an objective of tuberculosis regimen development. We…