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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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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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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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Aisha Khizar Yousafzai
Background: Research has demonstrated the critical role that early learning experiences play in shaping children’s cognitive, social, and emotional development. Nevertheless,…
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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…
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Elhanan Helpman
Vol. 152, Pages 104007
Empirical studies have found that enhanced foreign competition can encourage or discourage innovation. To address this relationship, I examine a market structure in which a small…
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Fernando M. Reimers
Vol. 153, Issue 4, Pages 206-220
I examine the dynamics of implementing at-scale reforms to provide meaningful educational opportunities to disadvantaged students in Mexico. To effectively reduce social…
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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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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…
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Juan Saavedra
Pages 499-590
This chapter reviews the extensive literature to date on CCTs for education. Section 2 provides background on the origins and expansion of CCTs globally, and describes basic…