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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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Jessica L. Cohen
Vol. 4, Issue 11, Pages e0003842
Maternal mortality rates in Kenya have remained high, with the country reporting 342 deaths per 100,000 live births. A major contributor to this is postpartum hemorrhage (PPH),…
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Asim Khwaja
Vol. 139, Issue 4, Pages 2525-2577
We estimate the equilibrium effects of a public school grant program administered through school councils in Pakistani villages with multiple public and private schools and…
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Marcia C.de Castro
Objective: The present study's objective is to assess whether sleep duration affects Early Childhood Development (ECD). A prospective cohort study was carried out with 278 mother-…
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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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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…
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David Canning
Vol. 61, Issue 5, Pages 1667-1698
We conduct a randomized controlled trial that provides pregnant and immediate postpartum women with improved access to family planning through counseling, free transportation to a…
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Wafaie W. Fawzi, Christopher Sudfeld
Vol. 21, Issue 1, Pages e13732
Calcium supplementation in pregnancy is recommended in contexts with low dietary calcium intake to reduce the risk of pre-eclampsia and its complications. The World Health…
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Wafaie W. Fawzi
Vol. 4, Issue 9
Gestational weight gain (GWG) estimates enable the identification of populations of women at risk for adverse outcomes. We described GWG distribution in low- and middle-income…
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Nicolas Menzies
Vol. 7, Issue 9
Importance: Despite significant progress made toward tuberculosis (TB) elimination, racial and ethnic disparities persist in TB incidence and case-fatality rates in the US.…
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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…