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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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Ethics and Social Responsibility in Business: Balancing Profit and Impact
Asim Khwaja
March 31, 2024, Paper: "This paper delves into the intricate relationship between ethics, social responsibility, and profitability in the business realm. It explores how companies…
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Glass Walls: Experimental Evidence on Constraints faced by Women in Accessing Valuable Skilling Opportunities
Asim Khwaja
Experimental evidence from Pakistan shows distance poses a large and discontinuous access constraint: women with village-based training centers are four times more likely to…
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Helping Schools Survive: Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Financial and Educational Support to Private Schools
Asim Khwaja
Private schools provide affordable education in low-income countries. Yet, they often face higher closure rates, leading to disruption for students. We provide experimental…
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Crowding in Private Quality: The Equilibrium Effects of Public Spending in Education
Asim Khwaja
ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Working Paper No. RWP23-010
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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Heterogeneity in School Value-Added and the Private Premium
Asim Khwaja
ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Working Paper No. RWP22-020
Using rich panel data from Pakistan, we compute test score based measures of quality (School Value-Addeds or SVAs) for more than 800 schools across 112 villages and verify that…
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Rebuilding the Social Compact: Urban Service Delivery and Property Taxes in Pakistan
Asim Khwaja
This impact evaluation investigates whether strengthening the link between local taxation and urban services can revitalize the social compact between citizen and state. A…
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Economic Shocks and Skill Acquisition: Evidence from a National Online Learning Platform at the Onset of COVID-19
Asim Khwaja
We study how large shocks impact individuals’ skilling decisions using data from the largest online learning platform in Saudi Arabia. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic brought…
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Crowding in Private Quality: The Equilibrium Effects of Public Spending in Education
Asim Khwaja
We study the effects of a policy that distributed large cash grants through school councils to public schools in rural Pakistan. Using a village-level randomized control trial, we…
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How governments can prepare for crises: the lessons from COVID
Asim Khwaja
Faced with an overwhelming crisis, governments across the world grappled with difficult policy choices in response to COVID. Resolving these challenges now—by adopting an active…
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Preparing for Crises: Lessons from Covid-19
Asim Khwaja
Vol. 1, Issue 4, Pages 8
The Covid-19 pandemic is an unprecedented crisis for governments across the globe. Despite a timely and effective mobilization of resources, consistent challenges hampered the…