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
Andrabi, Tahir, Natalie Bau, Jishnu Das, Naureen Karachiwalla, and Asim Ijaz Khwaja. "Crowding in Private Quality: The Equilibrium Effects of Public Spending in Education." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-010, January 2023.
Eichengreen, Barry, Ricardo Hausmann, and Ugo Panizza. "Yet it Endures: The Persistence of Original Sin." Open Economies Review 34 (February 2023): 1-42.
Banerjee, Abhijit, Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, Elan Satriawan, and Sudarno Sumarto. "Electronic Food Vouchers: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia." American Economic Review 113.2 (February 2023): 514-547.
Cheston, Timothy, Patricio Goldstein, Timothy Freeman, Alejandro Rueda-Sanz, Ricardo Hausmann, Shreyas Gadgin Matha, Sebastián Bustos, Eduardo Lora, Sarah Bui, and Nidhi Rao. "Seeing the Forest for More Than the Trees: A Policy Strategy to Curb Deforestation and Advance Shared Prosperity in the Colombian Amazon." CID Faculty Working Paper Series, February 2023.
Frankel, Jeffrey. "Biden Should let the Game of Debt Ceiling Chicken Play Out." Los Angeles Times, January 19, 2023.
Woolcock, Michael. "Assessing and Interpreting Complex Development Interventions: Three Key Principles and Two (Intractable?) Conundrums." Changing Dimensions of the International Development System: New Realities and Working Differently to Overcome Delivery Challenges. Ed. Horst Fischer, Maria Gonzales de Asis, and Anselm Schneider. Lit Verlag, 2023, 181-195.
Baqir, Reza, Ischac Diwan, and Dani Rodrik. "A framework to evaluate economic adjustment-cum-debt restructuring packages." Finance for Development Lab Working Paper Series, January 2023.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Predictions that global economy is heading for a recession are premature." The Guardian, December 29, 2022.
Rodrik, Dani. "Technology, Globalisation and A Need for A New Model of Development (Mahboob ul Haq Lecture: Key Takeaways)." The Pakistan Development Review 61.1 (December 2022): 118-120.
Singh, J.P., and Michael Woolcock. "The Future of Multilateralism and Global Development: Opportunities for Constitutive and Functional Reform." Global Perspectives 3.1 (December 2022): 57594.
Frankel, Jeffrey A., Yao Hou, and Danxia Xie. "Estimation of Nonlinear Exchange Rate Dynamics in Evolving Regimes." December 2022.
Lawrence, Robert Z. "How to save the WTO with more flexible trading rules." Peterson Institute for International Economics Policy Briefs, December 2022.
Wolff, Alan Wm., Robert Z. Lawrence, and Gary Clyde Hufbauer. "Have trade agreements been bad for America?" Peterson Institute for International Economics Policy Briefs, December 2022.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Let the WTO Referee Carbon Border Taxes." Project Syndicate, November 29, 2022.
Rosengard, Jay K. "The World’s Best-Kept Financial Inclusion Secret Revealed: The Untold Success Story of BRI Microbanking Since 1895." Ash Center Policy Briefs Series, November 2022.
Bai, Jie, Ludovica Gazze, and Yukun Wang. "Collective Reputation in Trade: Evidence from the Chinese Dairy Industry." The Review of Economics and Statistics 104.6 (November 2022): 1121-1137.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Miguel Ángel Santos, Frank Muci, Jorge Tudela Pye, Ana Grisanti, and Jessie Lu. "Overcoming Remoteness in the Peruvian Amazonia: A Growth Diagnostic of Loreto." CID Faculty Working Papers Series, October 2022.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Daniel P. Stock, and Muhammed A. Yildirim. "Implied comparative advantage." Research Policy 51.8 (October 2022): 104143.
Andrews, Matt. "What is public policy success, especially in development?" vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-015, September 2022.
Diodato, Dario, Ricardo Hausmann, and Ulrich Schetter. "A Simple Theory of Economic Development at the Extensive Industry Margin." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-016, September 2022.
Banerjee, Abhijit, Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, and Diana Sverdlin-Lisker. "Social Protection in the Developing World." September 2022.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Why Commodity Prices Are Likely to Fall Further." Project Syndicate, August 23, 2022.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Does International Trade Weaken or Strengthen Countries’ Resilience?" Project Syndicate, June 20, 2022.
Ing, Lili Yan, and Dani Rodrik, eds. New Normal, New Technologies, New Financing. ERIA, 2022.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Inflation Isn’t Recession. The Chances of a Downturn Are Lower Than People Think." Barron's, June 8, 2022.
Lewis, David, Dennis Rodgers, and Michael Woolcock. "Innovations in Translation, Advocacy, and Engagement in Global Development." New Mediums, Better Messages? How Innovations in Translation, Engagement and Advocacy are Changing International Development. Ed. David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers, and Michael Woolcock. Oxford University Press, 2022, 1-15.
Lewis, David, Dennis Rodgers, and Michael Woolcock, eds. New Mediums, Better Messages?: How Innovations in Translation, Engagement, and Advocacy are Changing International Development. Oxford University Press, 2022.
Lewis, David, Dennis Rodgers, and Michael Woolcock. "The Sounds of Development: Musical Representation as (An)other Source of Development Knowledge." New Mediums, Better Messages?: How Innovations in Translation, Engagement, and Advocacy are Changing International Development. Ed. David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers, and Michael Woolcock. Oxford University Press, 2022, 19-41.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Get Ready for Reverse Currency Wars." Project Syndicate, May 25, 2022.
Rodrik, Dani. "Prospects for global economic convergence under new technologies." An Inclusive Future? Technology, New Dynamics, And Policy Challenges. Ed. Zia Qureshi. Brookings Institute, May 2022, 65-82.
Hausmann, Ricardo, and Ulrich Schetter. "Horrible trade-offs in a pandemic: Poverty, fiscal space, policy, and welfare." World Development 153 (May 2022): 105819.
Sturzenegger, Federico, and Nicolas Der Meguerditchian. "A Balance-Sheet Model of Fiscal Policy in Namibia." Red Nacionale de Investigadores en Economia (RedNIE), April 2022.
Banerjee, Abhijit, Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, Elan Satriawan, and Sudarno Sumarto. "Electronic Food Vouchers: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia." April 2022.
Balland, Pierre-Alexandre, Tom Broekel, Dario Diodato, Elisa Giuliani, Ricardo Hausmann, Neave O'Clery, and David Rigby. "The new paradigm of economic complexity." Research Policy 51.3 (April 2022): 104450.
Ganguli, Ina, Jamal I. Haidar, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Samuel W. Stemper, and Basit Zafar. "Economic Shocks and Skill Acquisition: Evidence from a National Online Learning Platform at the Onset of COVID-19." NBER Working Paper Series, April 2022.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Miguel Angel Santos, Douglas Barrios, Nikita Taniparti, Jorge Tudela Pye, and Jessie Lu. "The Economic Complexity of Namibia: A Roadmap for Productive Diversification." CID Faculty Working Papers Series, March 2022.
O’Brien, Tim, Thao-Nguyên Bùi, Ermal Frasheri, Fernando Garcia, Farah Hani, Eric Protzer, Ricardo Villasmil, and Ricardo Hausmann. "What Will It Take for Jordan to Grow?" CID Faculty Working Papers Series, March 2022.
Chen, Martha, Erofili Grapsa, Ghida Ismail, Michael Rogan, Marcela Valdivia, Laura Alfers, Jenna Harvey, Ana Carolina Ogando, Sarah Orleans Reed, and Sally Roever. "COVID-19 and informal work: Evidence from 11 cities." International Labour Review 161.1 (March 2022): 29-58.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Fighting the Last Inflation War." Project Syndicate, February 24, 2022.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Miguel Angel Santos, Douglas Barrios, Nikita Taniparti, Jorge Tudela Pye, Jose Francisco Muci, and Jessie Lu. "A Growth Diagnostic of Namibia." CID Faculty Working Papers Series, February 2022.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Federico Sturzenegger, Patricio Goldstein, Frank Muci, and Douglas Barrios. "Macroeconomic risks after a decade of microeconomic turbulence." CID Faculty Working Papers Series, January 2022.
Jensen, Anders. "Employment Structure and the Rise of the Modern Tax System." American Economic Review 112.1 (January 2022): 213-234.
Basri, M. Chatib, Mayara Felix, Rema Hanna, and Benjamin A. Olken. "Tax Administration versus Tax Rates: Evidence from Corporate Taxation in Indonesia." American Economic Review 111.12 (December 2021): 3827-3871.
Ash, Elliott, Sharun W. Mukand, and Dani Rodrik. "Economic Interests, Worldviews, and Identities: Theory and Evidence on Ideational Politics." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-032, November 2021.
Rodrik, Dani. "A Primer on Trade and Inequality." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-031, November 2021.
Bachas, Pierre, Lucie Gadenne, and Anders Jensen. "Informality, Consumption Taxes and Redistribution." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-026, October 2021.
Greenspon, Jacob, and Dani Rodrik. "A Note on the Global Distribution of Authorship in Economics Journals." NBER Working Paper Series, October 2021.
Chen, Martha, and Françoise Carré. Review of Informal Women Workers in the Global South: Policies and Practices for the Formalisation of Women's Employment in Developing Economies, ed. Jayati Ghosh. Gender & Development, 29.2-3, 09/02/2021: 684-687.
Banerjee, Abhijit, Amy Finkelstein, Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, Arianna Ornaghi, and Sudarno Sumarto. "The Challenges of Universal Health Insurance in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia’s National Health Insurance." American Economic Review 11.9 (September 2021): 3035-3063.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Miguel Santos, Corrado Macchiarelli, and Renato Giacon. "What economic complexity theory can tell us about the EU’s pandemic recovery and resilience plans." LSE Blog. August 30, 2021.