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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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David Canning
Vol. 55, Issue 4, Pages 349-359
Estimates of unwanted family planning (UFP), which are based on a desire to have a child in the next nine months among current contraceptive users, exclude women who are…
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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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David Canning
Vol. 178, Pages 106575
Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The macro-based approach tends to yield estimates that are either…
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David Canning
Vol. 29, Issue 1, Pages 24-31
Purpose: We evaluate contraceptive use and pregnancy two years following an intervention in Tanzania, which provided antenatal post-partum family planning counselling and post-…
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David Canning
Background Studies have highlighted potential non-contraceptive benefits from women’s use of hormonal, reversible contraceptive methods. Given the physiological pathways through…
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David Canning
Vol. 15, Issue 4
Background: There is limited evidence between contraceptive use, availability of commodities and distance to the facility in developing countries. Distance to the facility is an…
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David Canning
Vol. 324, Pages 115883
Background: Increasing socioeconomic resources through cash transfer payments could help promote healthy longevity. However, research in this area is limited due to endogeneity in…
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David Canning
Vol. 36, Issue 5, Pages 809–828
Two-thirds of people living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) live in low- and middle-income countries, and this figure is expected to rise as these…
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David Canning
Vol. 20, Issue 4, Pages 3178
Purpose: Study findings suggest association between anemia and postpartum depression, but available evidence is scant and inconsistent. We investigate whether anemia is related to…
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David Canning
Vol. 54, Issue 1, Pages 75-93
While there is a large literature on the prevalence of unmet need for family planning, there is no matching quantitative evidence on the prevalence of unwanted family planning;…