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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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Augustin Bergeron
Working Paper No. 31663
We study the evolution of belief systems that suppress productive effort, including beliefs about envy, the importance of luck for success, witchcraft beliefs, and disdain for…
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Vincent Pons
Working Paper No. 32342
Recent social movements stand out by their spontaneous nature and lack of stable leadership, raising doubts on their ability to generate political change. This article provides…
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Dana McCoy
Vol. 14, Issue 4, Pages 318
Direct assessments of executive functions (EFs) are increasingly used in research and clinical settings, with a central assumption that they assess “universal” underlying skills.…
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Sarah Dryden-Peterson
This study analyzes how un/belonging is experienced by Somali refugee students in public primary schools in the Bole Michael area of Addis Ababa. Drawing on data from interviews…
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Catherine Elizabeth Snow
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Bilinguals often outperform monolinguals at apprehending the perspectives of others—an apparent consequence of their experiences moving across linguistic and sociocultural…
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Sarah Dryden-Peterson
Vol. 10, Issue 1, Pages 45307
There is a gap between the futures that refugee young people imagine will be possible through their education and the plausible futures in exile, where opportunities are truncated…
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Livia Alfonsi
Vol. 167
We study how human capital and economic conditions causally affect the choice of religious denomination. We utilize a longitudinal dataset monitoring the religious history of more…
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Jeffry Frieden
We investigate how Reconstruction affected Black political participation and socioeconomic advancement after the American Civil War. We use the location of federal troops and…
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Michael Woolcock
Working Paper No. 10051
Responding effectively and with professional integrity to the many challenges of public administration requires recognizing that access to more and better quantitative data is…
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Paul Chang
Vol. 86, Issue 1, Pages 132-153
Objective This study examines the determinants of marriage decline in South Korea, a representative case of the “demographic crisis” sweeping East Asia. Background The major…