Faculty Publications

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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The Challenges of Scaling up Effective Child-Rearing Practices Using Technology in Developing Settings: Experimental Evidence From India

Alejandro Ganimian

Home-visitation programs have improved child development in low- and middle-income countries, but they are costly to scale due to their reliance on trained workers. We evaluated…

De facto Openness to Immigration

Ricardo Hausmann

Various factors influence why some countries are more open to immigration than others. Policy is only one of them. We design country-specific measures of openness to immigration…

Research: The Costs of Circumventing Tariffs

Jaya Wen

When tariffs are levied against a specific country, that country might attempt to circumvent the tariff by rerouting products through a third country to avoid the higher taxes.…

Displaced Learners: Early Integration of Ukrainian Refugee Students into Italy’s Schools

Michela Carlana

The paper examines the early integration of Ukrainian refugee students into Italy's education system following the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.…

Children’s arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic mathematics

Alejandro Ganimian

Vol. 639, Pages 673–681

Many children from low-income backgrounds worldwide fail to master school mathematics1; however, some children extensively use mental arithmetic outside school2,3. Here we…

The U.S. Place-Based Policy Supply Chain

Dani Rodrik, Gordon Hanson

Place-based policy in the United States comprises a wide range of government programs that are spread across federal, state, and local agencies and that rely on public, private,…

Vanguard: Black Veterans and Civil Rights after World War I

Desmond Ang

Nearly 400,000 Black men were drafted into the National Army during World War I, where they toiled in segregated units and received little formal training. Leveraging novel…

Investigator racial diversity and clinical trial participation

Marcella Alsan

We investigate whether increased racial diversity of clinical trial principal investigators could increase the enrollment of Black patients, which currently lags population and…

Building Capacity to Measure Sustainability: Lessons from scholarship and practice

William Clark

One of the longest standing challenges facing both research and practice in sustainable development is the design and implementation of methods for measuring progress towards…

The association of travel distance and other patient characteristics with breast cancer stage at diagnosis and treatment completion at a rural Rwandan cancer facility

Marcia C.de Castro

Vol. 25

Background: Butaro Cancer Center of Excellence (BCCOE) was founded to serve Rwanda’s rural low-income population, providing subsidized cancer diagnosis and treatment with…

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