Harvard Kennedy School faculty disseminate their research in working publications and papers that contribute to public knowledge and fuel policy innovation. This list features recent faculty publications, including journal articles, books, edited volumes, research papers, and public testimony.
Faculty Publications
Jasanoff, Sheila. "The Biopolitics of CRISPR." The CRISPR Revolution in Science, Religion, and Ethics. Ed. Arvin M. Gouw and Ted Peters. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
Tucker-Foltz, Jamie, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Playing Divide-and-Choose Given Uncertain Preferences." RWP22-008, December 2024.
Armona, Luis, and Adam M. Rosenberg. "Second-Best Amendment: Market Power and Tax Design in the Firearms Industry." December 13, 2024.
Coots, Madison, Soroush Saghafian, David M. Kent, and Sharad Goel. "A Framework for Considering the Value of Race and Ethnicity in Estimating Disease Risk." Annals of Internal Medicine (3 December 2024).
Dynan, Karen, and Douglas Elmendorf. "Fiscal policy and the pandemic-era surge in US inflation: Lessons for the future." Understanding the COVID Era Inflation, Peterson Institute for International Economics, December 2024.
Cutler, David, and Edward Glaeser. "The Mysteries of Cities and Economic Growth." Finance & Development Magazine. December 2024.
Summers, Lawrence H., Marijn A. Bolhuis, and Judd Cramer. "The True Cost of Living." Finance & Development. December 2024.
Tarantino, Giuseppe, Cora A. Ricker, Annette Wang ... Soroush Saghafian et al. "Genomic heterogeneity and ploidy identify patients with intrinsic resistance to PD-1 blockade in metastatic melanoma." Science Advances 10.48 (29 November 2024): eadp4670.
Alsan, Marcella, and Yousra Neberai. "Why Doesn鈥檛 The United States Have National Health Insurance? The Role Of The American Medical Association." 11/28/2024.
Narh, Bernice Nuerkey, and Woolcock, Michael. "Publication: Reconciling Multi-Level Rights-Based Commitments in Development: Assessing the Legal and Administrative Imperatives of Responding to Education, Health Care, and Environment Protection Challenges." World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series, 11/22/2024.
Norris, Pippa. "Trump鈥檚 threat to American democracy." U.S. Election Analysis 2024: Media, Voters and the Campaign. Ed. Daniel Jackson et al. Bournmouth: University of Bournmouth, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "Noam Chomsky Has Been Proved Right." Foreign Policy, November 15, 2024.
Saghafian, Soroush and Lihi Idan. "Effective Generative AI: The Human-Algorithm Centaur." Harvard Data Science Review Special Issue 5 (November 13, 2024).
Lecaros, Ignacia, Daniela Paz Cruzat, Ricardo Pommer Mu帽oz, Pablo Tillan, and Michael Walton. "Can Chile Escape an Inequality Trap? 鈥nd Why It Matters for Long-Term Development and Growth." RWP24-008, November 2024.
Coots, Madison, Kristin Linn, Sharad Goel, Amol Navathe, and Ravi Parikh. "Racial Bias in Clinical and Population Health Algorithms: A Critical Review of Current Debates." Annual Review of Public Health (forthcoming).
Fagan, Mark L. Supply Chain Management: A Public Sector Perspective. Cheltanham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "The 10 Foreign-Policy Implications of the 2024 U.S. Election." Foreign Policy, November 8, 2024.
Jameson, Jacob C., Soroush Saghafian, Robert S. Huckman, and Nicole Hodgson. "Variation in batch ordering of imaging tests in the emergency department and the impact on care delivery." Health Services Research (5 November 2024).
O鈥橞rien, Daniel T., Hengfang Deng, Edgar Castro, Sage Gibbons, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, and Ryan Qi Wang. "To ride-hail or not to ride-hail? Complementarity and competition between public transit and transportation network companies through the lens of app data." Public Transport (2024).
Aldy, Joseph. "How Big is the 鈥淏iggest Climate Spending Bill Ever?鈥 Key Factors Influencing the Inflation Reduction Act鈥檚 Clean Energy Impacts." RWP24-007, November 2024.
Garabedian, Laura F., J. Frank Wharam, Joseph P. Newhouse, Matthew Lakoma, Stephanie Argetsinger, Fang Zhang, and Alison A. Galbraith. "The impact of a payer-provider joint venture on healthcare value." Health Services Research (November 4, 2024).
Alsan, Marcella, Katherine Ianni, and Graeme Peterson. "Racial health disparities in the United States." Oxford Review of Economic Policy 40.3 (Autumn 2024): 498-517.
Schneider, Daniel, Kristen Harknett, and Annette Gailliot. "COVID-19 Employment Shocks and Safety Net Expansion: Health Effects on Displaced Workers." Social Science Research 124 (November 2024).
Weiss, Max, Sharon-Lise T. Normand, David C. Grabowski, Deborah Blacker, Joseph P. Newhouse, and John Hsu. "All-cause nursing home mortality rates have remained above pre-pandemic levels after accounting for decline in occupancy." Health Affairs Scholar 2.11 (November 2024): qxae126.
Salazar-Miranda, Arianna, Zhuangyuan Fan, Michael B. Baick, Keith N. Hampton, Fabio Duarte, Becky P.Y. Loo, Edward L. Glaeser, and Carlo Ratti. "Shifting Patterns of Social Interaction: Exploring the Social Life of Urban Spaces Through A.I." NBER Working Paper Series, November 2024.
Peterson, Paul E., and Nora Gordon. "What We Know about Our Schools." Hoover Institution, October 24, 2024.
Buzas, Zoltan, and Lotem Bassan-Nygate. "Human Rights Organizations and Shaming Tactics: Using Anti-Racist Cues to Hone the Messaging." Keough School Policy Brief Series, 2024.
O鈥橦erron, Charlotte, Daniel Schneider, and Kristen Harknett. "Between-firm sorting and parenthood wage gaps in the US service sector." Journal of Marriage and Family (October 20, 2024).
Ladin, Keren, John Cuddeback, O. Kenrik Duru, Sharad Goel, et al. "Guidance for unbiased predictive information for healthcare decision-making and equity (GUIDE): considerations when race may be a prognostic factor." NPJ Digital Medicine 7.290 (2024).
Ladin, Keren, John Cuddeback, O. Kenrik Duru, Sharad Goel, William Harvey, Jinny G. Park, Jessica K. Paulus, Joyce Sackey, Richard Sharp, Ewout Steyerberg, Berk Ustun, David van Klaveren, Saul N. Weingart, and David M. Kent. "Guidance for unbiased predictive information for healthcare decision-making and equity (GUIDE): considerations when race may be a prognostic factor." npj digital medicine 7 (2024): 290.
Jamison, Dean T., Lawrence H. Summers, et al. "Global health 2050: the path to halving premature death by mid-century." The Lancet 404.10462 (October 2024): 1561-1614.
Jamison, Dean T., Lawrence H. Summers, et al. "Global health 2050: the path to halving premature death by mid-century." The Lancet 404.10462 (October 2024): 1561-1614.
Goldsmith, Stephen and Juncheng "Tony" Yang. "AI and the Transformation of Accountability and Discretion in Urban Governance." Data-Smart City Solutions at the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University, October 2024.
Chenoweth, Erica, Soha Hammam, Jeremy Pressman, and Jay Ulfelder. "Protests in the United States on Palestine and Israel, 2023鈥2024." Social Movement Studies (10/18/2024): 1-14.
Voelkel, Jan, Michael Stagnaro, James Chu... Julia Minson, et al. "Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity." Science 386.6719 (October 18, 2024): eadh4764.
Torres, Victor Lomachinsky, Julianne D. Brooks, Maria A. Donahue, Shuo Sun, John Hsu, Mary Price, Deborah Blacker, Lee H. Schwamm, Joseph P. Newhouse, Sebastien Haneuse, and Lidia M. V. R. Moura. "Benzodiazepine Utilization in Ischemic Stroke Survivors: Analyzing Initial Excess Supply and Longitudinal Trends." Stroke (October 17, 2024).
Deming, David, Christopher Ong, and Lawrence Summers. "Technological Disruption in the US Labor Market." Strengthening America鈥檚 Economic Dynamism. Ed. Melissa S. Kearney and Luke Pardue. Washington, DC: Aspen Institute, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "Kamala Harris Is Not a Realist. I鈥檓 Voting for Her Anyway." Foreign Policy, October 16, 2024.
Peterson, Paul E. "Would a Trump Victory Really Be Good for School Choice?" School Choice 24.4 (Fall 2024).
Olken, Benjamin A., Rema Hanna, Phitawat Poonpolkul, and Nada Wasi. "Willingness-To-Pay vs Administrative Hurdles: Understanding Barriers to Social Insurance Enrollment in Thailand." Puey Ungphakorn Institute for Economic Research Discussion Paper Series, October 2024.
Lipschitz, Jessica M., Sidian Lin, Soroush Saghafian, Chelsea K. Pike, and Katherine E. Burdick. "Digital phenotyping in bipolar disorder: Using longitudinal Fitbit data and personalized machine learning to predict mood symptomatology." Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica (13 October 2024).
Kalt, Joseph P. "Self-Government, Taxation, and Tribal Development: The Critical Role of American Indian Nation Business Enterprises." Policy Briefs for Tribal, Federal & State Governments, Harvard Kennedy School Project on Indigenous Governance & Development, October 7, 2024.
Alsan, Marcella, and Ruqaiijah Yearby. "Health Equity in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election." NEJM (October 2, 2024).
Taha, Mohamed, Mamoon Habib, Victor Lomachinsky, Peter Hadar, Joseph P. Newhouse, Lee H. Schwamm, Deborah Blacker, and Lidia M. V. R. Moura. "Evaluating the concordance between International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision Code and stroke severity as measured by the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale." BMJ Neurology Open 6.2 (October 2024): e000831.
Walt, Stephen. "Israel鈥檚 鈥楳ission Accomplished鈥 Moment in the Middle East." Foreign Policy, October 2, 2024.
Kakani, Pragya, Michael Anne Kyle, Amitabh Chandra, and Luca Maini. "Medicare Part D Protected-Class Policy Is Associated With Lower Drug Rebates." Health Affairs 43.10 (October 2024): 1420-1427.
Caplin, Andrew, David J. Deming, Shangwen Li, Daniel J. Martin, Philip Marx, Ben Weidmann, and Kadachi Jiada Ye. "The ABC鈥檚 of Who Benefits from Working with AI: Ability, Beliefs, and Calibration." NBER Working Paper Series, October 2024.
Lawrence, Robert Z. "Is the United States undergoing a manufacturing renaissance that will boost the middle class?" PIEE Policy Brief Series, October 2024.
Ackermann, Mark, Clare Amann, ...John Holdren et al. "Pan-Arctic Methane: Current Monitoring Capabilities, Approaches for Improvement, and Implications for Global Mitigation Targets." Wilson Center Polar Institute, October 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "Happy Birthday to America鈥檚 Most Underrated President." Foreign Policy, October 1, 2024.