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
Kousky, Carolyn, John Pratt, and Richard Zeckhauser. Virgin Versus Experienced Risks. The Irrational Economist: Making Decisions in a Dangerous World. Ed. Erwann Michel-Kerjan and Paul Slovic. Public Affairs, 2010, 99-106.
Schauer, Frederick, and Richard Zeckhauser. Paltering. Deception: From Ancient Empires to Internet Dating. Ed. Brooke Harrington. Stanford University Press, 2009, 38-54.
Kousky, Carolyn, Olga Rostapshova, Michael Toman, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Responding to Threats of Climate Change Mega-Catastrophes." Resources for the Future Discussion Paper, November 2009.
Zeckhauser, Richard. Effective Agency, Individual Involvement and Default Choices. The Future of Life-Cycle Saving and Investing: The Retirement Phase. Ed. Zvi Bodie, Laurence B. Siegel, and Rodney N. Sullivan. Research Foundation of CFA Institute, 2009.
Frank, Richard G., and Richard J. Zeckhauser. "Health Insurance Exchanges — Making the Markets Work." New England Journal of Medicine 361 (September 2009): 1135-1137.
Rizzo, John, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Generic Script Share and the Price of Brand-Name Drugs: The Role of Consumer Choice." International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics 9.3 (September 2009): 291-316.
Schauer, Frederick, and Richard Zeckhauser. "The Trouble with Cases." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP09-025, August 2009.
Cutler, David, Bryan Lincoln, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Selection Stories: Understanding Movement Across Health Plans." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP09-022, July 2009.
Tran, Anh, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Rank as an Incentive." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP09-019, July 2009.
Cutler, David M., Bryan Lincoln, and Richard J. Zeckhauser. "Selection Stories: Understanding Movement Across Health Plans." NBER Working Papers 15164, July 2009.
Bohnet, Iris, Benedikt Herrmann, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Trust and the Reference Points for Trustworthiness in Gulf and Western Countries." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP09-015, June 2009.
Avery, Christopher, and Richard Zeckhauser. "The "CAPS" Prediction System and Stock Market Returns." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Papers Series RWP09-011, April 2009.
Sunstein, Cass R., and Richard Zeckhauser. "Overreaction to Fearsome Risks." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP08-079, December 2008.
Berger, Alan, Carolyn Kousky, and Richard Zeckhauser. Obstacles to Clear Thinking about Natural Disasters: Five Lessons for Policy. Risking House and Home: Disasters, Cities, Public Policy. Ed. John M. Quigley and Larry A. Rosenthal. Berkeley Public Policy Press, 2008, 73-94.
Summers, Lawrence H., and Richard Zeckhauser. "Policymaking for Posterity." Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 37.2 (December 2008): 115-140.
Fels, Stephen, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Perfect and Total Altruism Across the Generations." Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 37.2 (December 2008): 187-197.
Zeckhauser, Richard, and W. Kip Viscusi. "Discounting Dilemmas: Editors' Introduction." Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 37.2 (December 2008): 95-106.
Sommers, Benjamin D., and Richard Zeckhauser. "Probabilities and Preferences: What Economics Can Teach Doctors and Patients Making Difficult Treatment Decisions." Urologic Oncology 26.6 (November 2008): 669-673.
Sommers Benjamin D., Clair J. Beard, Anthony V. D'Amico, Irving Kaplan, Jerome P. Richie, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Predictors of Patient Preferences and Treatment Choices for Localized Prostate Cancer." Cancer 113.8 (October 2008): 2058-2067.
Fang, Hai, Nolan Miller, John A. Rizzo, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Demanding Customers: Consumerist Patients and Quality of Care." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series and NBER Working Papers (RWP08-042 and 14350), September 2008.
Zeckhauser, Richard, and Jonathan K. Nelson. The Patron's Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art. Princeton University Press, 2008.
Liebman, Jeffrey, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Simple Humans, Complex Insurance, Subtle Subsidies." NBER Working Papers 14330, September 2008.
Summers, Lawrence H., and Richard Zeckhauser. "Policymaking for Posterity." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series and NBER Working Papers (RWP08-040 and 14359), August 2008.
Bobtcheff, Catherine, Christian Gollier, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Resource Allocation When Projects Have Ranges of Increasing Returns." Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 37.1 (August 2008): 1-33.
Arrow, Kenneth J., William J. Baumol, Jagdish Bhagwati, Michael J. Boskin, Robert W. Crandall, Maureen L. Cropper, Michael Greenstone, Robert W. Hahn, David Harrison, R. Glenn Hubbard, Alfred E. Kahn, Robert E. Litan, Paul W. Macavoy, James C. Miller, Albert L. Nichols, William A. Niskanen, Roger G. Noll, Wallace E. Oates, Peter Passell, Sam Peltzman, Paul R. Portney, Harvey S. Rosen, Milton Russell, Thomas C. Schelling, Richard Schmalensee, Charles L. Schultze, V. Kerry Smith, Vernon L. Smith, Robert N. Stavins, W. Kip Viscusi, Lawrence J. White, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Clean Water Act Brief." Reg-Markets Center Brief 08-03, July 2008.
Bobtcheff, Catherine, Christian Gollier, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Resource Allocation When Projects Have Ranges of Increasing Returns." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP08-024, April 2008.
Bohnet, Iris, Fiona Greig, Benedikt Herrmann, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Betrayal Aversion: Evidence from Brazil, China, Oman, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United States." American Economic Review 98.1 (March 2008): 294-310.
Luttmer, Erzo F.P., and Richard Zeckhauser. "Schedule Selection by Agents: from Price Plans to Tax Tables." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series and NBER Working Papers (RWP08-008 and 13808), February 2008.
Frank, Richard G., and Richard Zeckhauser. "Custom-Made versus Ready-to-Wear Treatments: Behavioral Propensities in Physicians’ Choices." Journal of Health Economics 26.6 (December 2007): 1101-1127.
Sommers, Benjamin D., Clair J. Beard, Anthony V. D'Amico, Douglas Dahl, Irving Kaplan, Jerome P. Richie, and Richard J. Zeckhauser. "Decision Analysis Using Individual Patient Preferences to Determine Optimal Treatment for Localized Prostate Cancer." Cancer 110.10 (November 2007): 2210-2217.
Frank, Richard G., and Richard Zeckhauser. "Custom Made Versus Ready to Wear Treatments; Behavioral Propensities in Physician's Choices." NBER Working Papers w13445, September 2007.
Miller, Nolan, John W. Pratt, Richard Zeckhauser, and Scott Johnson. "Mechanism Design with Multidimensional, Continuous Types and Interdependent Valuations." Journal of Economic Theory 136.1 (September 2007): 476-496.
Moselle, Boaz, Francois Degeorge, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Conspicuous Conservatism in Risk Choice." Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 35.1 (August 2007): 1-16.
Rizzo, John A., and Richard Zeckhauser. "Pushing Incomes to Reference Points: Why Do Male Doctors Earn More?" Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 63.3 (July 2007): 514-536.
Keohane, Nathaniel, Benjamin Van Roy, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Managing the Quality of a Resource with Stock and Flow Controls." Journal of Public Economics 91.3-4 (April 2007): 541-569.
Zeckhauser, Richard. "Good Programs vs. Bad Apples." Boston Globe, March 26, 2007.
Schauer, Frederick, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Regulation by Generalization." Regulation and Governance 1.1 (2007): 68-87.
Schauer, Frederick, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Paltering." KSG Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP07-006, February 2007.
Zeckhauser, Richard. "Investing in the Unknown and the Unknowable." KSG Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP07-005, February 2007.
Kousky, Carolyn, Sam Walsh, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Options Contracts for Contingent Takings." Issues in Legal Scholarship, Catastrophic Risks: Prevention, Compensation, and Recovery 10/art 2 (2007).
Luttmer, Erzo F.P., Richard Zeckhauser, and Carolyn Kousky. "Permits to Elicit Information." KSG Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP06-049, December 2006.
Wagner, Alexander, Nolan Miller, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Screening Budgets." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 61.3 (November 2006): 351-374.
Viscusi, W. Kip, and Richard Zeckhauser. "National Survey Evidence on Disasters and Relief: Risk Beliefs, Self-Interest, and Compassion." NBER Working Paper Series 12582, October 2006.
Luttmer, Erzo F.P., Carolyn Kousky, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Private Investment And Government Protection." Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 33.1-2 (September 2006): 73-100.
Viscusi, W. Kip, and Richard Zeckhauser. "National Survey Evidence on Disasters and Relief: Risk Beliefs, Self-Interest, and Compassion." Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 33.1-2 (September 2006): 13-36.
Miller, Nolan, Nikita E. Piankov and Richard J. Zeckhauser. "Possibly-Final Offers." Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 15.3 (Fall 2006): 789-819.
Miller, Nolan, John W. Pratt, Richard Zeckhauser, and Scott Johnson. "Mechanism Design with Multidimensional, Continuous Types and Interdependent Valuations." KSG Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP06-028, July 2006.
Viscusi, W. Kip, and Richard Zeckhauser. "The Perception and Valuation of the Risks of Climate Change: A Rational and Behavioral Blend." Climatic Change 77.1-2 (July 2006): 151-177.
Zeckhauser, Richard. "Thomas Schelling, Ricochet Thinker." KSG Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP06-026, June 2006.
Resnick, Paul, Richard Zeckhauser, John Swanson, and Kate Lockwood. "The Value of Reputation on eBay: A Controlled Experiment." Experimental Economics 9.2 (June 2006): 79-101.