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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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Carmen Reinhart
Vol. 155, Pages 104082
Theory suggests that corporate and sovereign bonds are fundamentally different, also because sovereign debt has no bankruptcy mechanism and is hard to enforce. We show empirically…
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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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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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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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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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Edward L. Glaeser
Cities are the nodes on our global lattice of travel and trade. They are the ports of entry for goods, people, ideas—and for viruses. The second of the IMF’s three critical…
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Ricardo Hausmann
Working Paper No. 239
In this report, we study Hermosillo's economic performance and assess critical issues affecting the city’s ability to achieve stronger economic growth. Although Hermosillo is far…
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Celestin Monga
The world faces a conflux of powerful forces of change. Digital technologies and advances in artificial intelligence are transforming markets, economies, and societies. Global…