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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. 

CID Faculty Research Insights

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International Lending in War and Peace
Carmen Reinhart
We study international capital flows across 200 years. A major novelty is our analysis on official flows (government-to-government lending), which are routinely neglected in the…
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How Wyoming’s Exodus of Young Adults Holds Back Economic Diversification
Ricardo Hausmann
Wyoming’s longstanding strengths in resource extraction provide much of its livelihood, including its private earnings and public finances. However, its lack of activity in other…
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Government Performance and Democracy: Survey Experimental Evidence from 12 Countries during Covid-19
Vincent Pons
Vol. 86, Issue 4
Crises of the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic may plausibly affect deep-seated attitudes of a large fraction ofcitizens. In particular, outcome-oriented theories imply that…
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Improving primary healthcare with generative AI
Winnie Yip
Vol. 30, Issue 10, Pages  2727-2728
Studies in China show how large language models can improve primary healthcare systems, but equitably scaling this technology will require attention to rural, low-resource…
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Lower Microscopy Sensitivity with Decreasing Malaria Prevalence in the Urban Amazon Region, Brazil, 2018-2021
Marcia C.de Castro
Vol. 30, Issue 9, Pages 1884-1894
Malaria is increasingly diagnosed in urban centers across the Amazon Basin. In this study, we combined repeated prevalence surveys over a 4-year period of a household-based random…
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Cost-effectiveness and health impact of screening and treatment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection among formerly incarcerated individuals in Brazil: a Markov modelling study
Marcia C.de Castro
Vol. 12, Issue 9, Pages e1446-e1455
Background: Individuals who were formerly incarcerated have high tuberculosis incidence, but are generally not considered among the risk groups eligible for tuberculosis…
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Gestational weight gain at the national, regional, and income group levels based on 234 national household surveys from 70 low-income and middle-income countries
Wafaie W. Fawzi
Vol. 4, Issue 9
Gestational weight gain (GWG) estimates enable the identification of populations of women at risk for adverse outcomes. We described GWG distribution in low- and middle-income…
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Estimated Health and Economic Outcomes of Racial and Ethnic Tuberculosis Disparities in US-Born Persons
Nicolas Menzies
Vol. 7, Issue 9
Importance: Despite significant progress made toward tuberculosis (TB) elimination, racial and ethnic disparities persist in TB incidence and case-fatality rates in the US.…
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Skills and Human Capital in the Labor Market
David Deming
This paper synthesizes the economics literature on skills and human capital, with a particular focus on higher-order capacities like social and decision-making skills. We review…
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The Rapid Adoption of Generative AI
David Deming
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a potentially important new technology, but its impact on the economy depends on the speed and intensity of adoption. This paper reports…