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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
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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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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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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Alejandro Ganimian
Vol. 17, Issue 2, Pages 318-343
This is one of the first studies to evaluate the impact of computer-based individualized instruction in a developing country. We randomly assigned 1,528 students in grades 6–8 in…
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Alejandro Ganimian
Vol. 92, Pages 102336
We leverage data on learning for 101,084 public-school students in grades 4, 6, and 8 across 19 Indian states to diagnose their mathematic skills. These data allow us to diagnose…