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
Nair, Gautam, and Federico Sturzenegger. "Great Dilution: The Global Impact of the US Inflation Shock on Sovereign Debt." IMF Economic Review (2023).
Nair, Gautam, and Federico Sturzenegger. "Great Dilution: The Global Impact of the US Inflation Shock on Sovereign Debt." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-009, July 2022.
Eck, Kristine, and Dara Kay Cohen. "Time For a Change: The Ethics of Student-led Human Subjects Research on Political Violence." Third World Quarterly (January 2021).
Nordaas, Ragnhild, Dara Kay Cohen, and Robert Nagel. "Twenty Years After UNSCR 1325: Any Progress Ending Wartime Sexual Violence?" Political Violence at a Glance, October 30, 2020.
Power, Samantha. "This Won't End for Anyone Until it Ends for Everyone." New York Times, April 7, 2020.
Eaves, David, Ben McGuire, and Audrey Carson. "Open Data in North America, Australia and New Zealand." The State of Open Data. Ed. Tim, Davies, and, Stephen, Walker,. International Research and Development Council, 2019.
Saich, Anthony. "The Politics of Welfare Policy: Towards Social Citizenship?" Handbook of Welfare in China. Ed. Beatriz Carrillo, Johanna Hood and Paul Kadetz. Edward Edgar Publishing, 2017, 81-97.
Sen, Kunal, Lant Pritchett, Sabyasachi Kar, and Selim Raihan. "Democracy Versus Dictatorship? The Political Determinants of Growth Episodes." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-009, December 2016.
Banerjee, Abhijit, Esther Duflo, Clement Imbert, Santhosh Mathew, Rohini Pande. "E-Governance, Accountability, and Leakage in Public Programs: Experimental Evidence from a Financial Management Reform in India." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-056, October 7, 2016.
Norris, Pippa, and Andrea Abel van Es, eds. Checkbook Elections: Political Finance in Comparative Perspective. Oxford University Press, 2016.
Jorgenson, Dale W., and Khuong M. Vu. "The Impact of ICT Investment on World Economic Growth." Telecommunications Policy 40.5 (May 2016): 381-382.
Field, Erica, Seema Jayachandran, Rohini Pande, and Natalia Rigol. "Friendship at Work: Can Peer Effects Catalyze Female Entrepreneurship?" American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 8.2 (May 2016): 125-153.
Rodrik, Dani. "Is Liberal Democracy Feasible in Developing Countries?" Studies in Comparative International Development 51.1 (March 2016): 50-59.
Norris, Pippa, Ferran Marinez i Coma, Alessandro Nai, and Max Groemping. "The Year in Elections, 2015." Electoral Integrity Project, March 2016.
Mukand, Sharun, and Dani Rodrik. "The Political Economy of Liberal Democracy." NBER Working Paper No. 21540, September 2015.
Norris, Pippa, Andrea Abel Van Es, and Lisa Fennis. "Checkbook Elections: Political Finance in Comparative Perspective." Electoral Integrity Project, July 2015.
Banerjee, Abhijit, Esther Duflo, Clement Imbert, Santhosh Mathew, and Rohini Pande. "Can E-Governance Reduce Capture of Public Programmes? Experimental Evidence from India’s Employment Guarantee Scheme in Bihar." Impact Evaluation Report 31, July 2015.
Bold, Tessa, Kayuki C. Kaizzi, Jakob Svensson, and David Yanagizawa-Drott. "Low Quality, Low Returns, Low Adoption: Evidence from the Market for Fertilizer and Hybrid Seed in Uganda." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-033, June 2015.
Rodrik, Dani. "The Future of European Democracy." After the Storm: How to Save Democracy in Europe. Ed. Luuk van Middelaar and Philippe Van Parijs. Lannoo, 2015, 53-66.
Campante, Filipe R., and David Yanagizawa-Drott. "Does Religion Affect Economic Growth and Happiness? Evidence from Ramadan." Quarterly Journal of Economics 130.2 (May 2015): 615-658.
Sheely, Ryan Matthew. "Mobilization, Participatory Planning Institutions, and Elite Capture: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural Kenya." World Development 67 (March 2015): 251-266.
The Power of Transparency:
Information, Identification
Cards, and Food Subsidy
Programs in Indonesia
Banerjee, Abhijit, Rema Hanna, Jordan C. Kyle, Benjamin A. Olken, and Sudarno Sumarto. "The Power of Transparency: Information, Identification Cards, and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-010, March 2015.
Stiglitz, Joseph E., and Jay K. Rosengard. Economics of the Public Sector, 4th Edition. W.W. Norton & Company, 2015.
Greenstone, Michael, Janhavi Nilekani, Rohini Pande, Nicholas Ryan, Anant Sudarshan, and Anish Sugathan. "Lower Pollution, Longer Lives Life Expectancy Gains if India Reduced Particulate Matter Pollution." Economic and Political Weekly. February 21, 2015, 40-46.
Norris, Pippa, Ferran Martínez i Coma, and Max Grömping. "The Year in Elections, 2014." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-008, February 2015.
Chen, Martha. "First Take: Waste -- Global Challenge, Latin American Lessons." ReVista: The Harvard Review of Latin America. Winter 2015.
Callen, Michael, and James D. Long. "Institutional Corruption and Election Fraud: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Afghanistan." American Economic Review 105.1 (January 2015): 354-381.
Yanagizawa-Drott, David. "Propaganda and Conflict: Evidence from the Rwandan Genocide." Quarterly Journal of Economics 129.4 (2014).
Banerjee, Abhijit, Donald P. Green, Jeffery McManus, and Rohini Pande. "Are Poor Voters Indifferent to Whether Elected Leaders Are Criminal or Corrupt? A Vignette Experiment in Rural India." Political Communication 31.3 (July-Sept 2014): 391-407.
Campante, Filipe R., and Quoc-Anh Do. "Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability, and Corruption: Evidence from US States." American Economic Review 104.8 (August 2014): 2456-2481.
Campante, Filipe R., and Davin Chor. "The People Want the Fall of the Regime”: Schooling, Political Protest, and the Economy." Journal of Comparative Economics 42.3 (August 2014): 495-517.
Norris, Pippa. Why Electoral Integrity Matters, 1st. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Norris, Pippa, Richard W. Frank, and Ferran Martinez i Coma, eds. Advancing Electoral Integrity. Oxford University Press, 2014.
Risse, Mathias. "On the Significance of Humanity’s Collective Ownership of the Earth for Immigration." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-009, February 2014.
Woolcock, Michael, David Lewis, and Dennis Rodgers. "Introduction to Popular Representations of Development." Popular Representations of Development: Insights from Novels, Films, Television, and Social Media. Ed. David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers, and Michael Woolcock. Routledge, 2014, 3-15.
David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers, and Michael Woolcock, eds. Popular Representations of Development: Insights from Novels, Films, Television, and Social Media. Routledge, 2014.
Woolcock, Michael, David Lewis, and Dennis Rodgers. "Popular Representations of Development - Taking Stock, Moving Forward." Popular Representations of Development: Insights from Novels, Films, Television, and Social Media. Ed. David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers, and Michael Woolcock. Routledge, 2014, 243-252.
Risse, Mathias, and Gabriel Wollner. "Critical Fairness in Practice: A Social Notice of Aaron James, Contract for a Global Economy." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 43.3 (2013): 382-401.
Andrews, Matthew. "Explaining Positive Deviance in Public Sector Reforms in Development." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP13-040, October 2013.
Larson, Greg, Peter Biar Ajak, and Lant Pritchett. "South Sudan’s Capability Trap: Building a State with Disruptive Innovation." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP13-041, October 2013.
Norris, Pippa, Richard W. Frank, and Ferran Martinez i Coma. "Assessing the Quality of Elections." Journal of Democracy 24.4 (October 2013): 124-135.
Hausmann, Ricardo and Francisco R. Rodríguez, eds. Venezuela Before Chávez: Anatomy of an Economic Collapse. Penn State University Press, 2013.
Madestam, Andreas, Daniel Shoag, Stan Veuger, and David Yanagizawa-Drott. "Do Political Protests Matter? Evidence from the Tea Party Movement." Quarterly Journal of Economics 128.4 (2013).
Norris, Pippa. "Does the World Agree About Standards of Electoral Integrity? Evidence for the Diffusion of Global Norms." Electoral Studies 34.4 (2013): 576-588.
Andrews, Matthew. "How Do Governments Get Great?" vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP13-020, June 2013.
Pande, Rohini, and Petia Topalova. "Women In Charge." Finance & Development. June 2013.
Rodrik, Dani. "Politicians Wrong-Headed on Economic Research." Global Times, May 23, 2013.
Campante, Filipe R., Ruben Durante, and Francesco Sobbrio. "Politics 2.0: The Multifaceted Effect of Broadband Internet on Political Participation." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP13-014, May 2013.
Norris, Pippa. "Muslim Support for Secular Democracy." Muslim Secular Democracy: Voices from Within. Ed. Lily Rahim. Palgrave/Macmillan, 2013, 113-140.
Wilkinson, Robert, Eileen Babbitt, and Diana Chigas. "Theories of Change (THINC): Concepts and Primers for Conflict Management and Mitigation." USAID, March 2013.