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
Alsan, Marcella, and Crystal Yang. "The Hidden Health Care Crisis Behind Bars: A Randomized Trial to Accredit U.S. Jails." NBER Working Paper Series, January 2025.
Alsan, Marcella, and Ruqaiijah Yearby. "Health Equity in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election." NEJM (October 2, 2024).
Kambath, Amisha, Noor Toraif, and Sandra Susan Smith. "This Is What Thriving Communities Look Like: Insights from Residents of Four Boston Neighborhoods." Roundtable on Racial Disparities in Massachusetts Criminal Courts, Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, August 2024.
Dobbie, Will, Raj Chetty, Benjamin Goldman, Sonya R. Porter, and Crystal S. Yang. "Changing Opportunity: Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Economic Mobility." NBER Working Paper Series, July 2024.
Angelova, Victoria, Will Dobbie, and Crystal S. Yang. "Algorithmic Recommendations When the Stakes Are High: Evidence from Judicial Elections." AEA Papers and Proceedings 114 (May 2024): 633-637.
Arnold, David, Will S. Dobbie, and Peter Hull. "Building Non-Discriminatory Algorithms in Selected Data." NBER Working Paper Series, May 2024.
Carlana, Michela, Enrico Miglino, and Michela M. Tincani. "How Far Can Inclusion Go? The Long-term Impacts of Preferential College Admissions." NBER Working Paper Series, May 2024.
Alsan, Marcella, and Sarah Eichmeyer. "Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Nonexperts for Improving Vaccine Demand." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 16.1 (February 2024): 394-414.
Gray, Bradley M., Rebecca S. Lipner, Robert O. Roswell, Alicia Fernandez, Jonathan L. Vandergrift, and Marcella Alsan. "Adoption of Internal Medicine Milestone Ratings and Changes in Bias Against Black, Latino, and Asian Internal Medicine Residents." Annals of Internal Medicine (December 26, 2023).
Vogel, Matthew, Olivia Zhao, William B. Feldman, Amitabh Chandra, Aaron S. Kesselheim, and Benjamin N. Rome. "Cost of Exempting Sole Orphan Drugs From Medicare Negotiation." JAMA Internal Medicine (November 27, 2023).
Alsan, Marcella, Romaine A. Campbell, Lukas Leister, and Ayotomiwa Ojo. "Investigator Racial Diversity and Clinical Trial Participation." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-029, October 2023.
Ang, Desmond, Panka Bencsik, Jesse Bruhn, and Ellora Derenoncourt. "Community Engagement with Law Enforcement after High-Profile Acts of Police Violence." October 2023.
Ang, Desmond. "The Birth of a Nation: Media and Racial Hate." American Economic Review 113.6 (June 2023): 1424-1460.
Schwartz, Aaron L., Marcella Alsan, Alanna A. Morris, and Scott D. Halpern. "Why Diverse Clinical Trial Participation Matters." New England Journal of Medicine 388.14 (April 6, 2023): 1252-1254.
Alsan, Marcella, Crystal S. Yang, James R. Jolin, Lucy Tu, and Josiah D. Rich. "Health Care in U.S. Correctional Facilities — A Limited and Threatened Constitutional Right." New England Journal of Medicine 388 (March 2, 2023): 847-852.
Woods, Tyler, Daniel Schneider, and Kristen Harknett. "The Politics of Prevention: Polarization in How Workplace COVID-19 Safety Practices Shaped the Well-Being of Frontline Service Sector Workers." Work and Occupations 50.1 (February 2023): 130-162.
Chandra, Amitabh, Maurice Dalton, and Douglas O. Staiger. "Are Hospital Quality Indicators Causal?" NBER Working Paper Series, October 2023.
Smith, Sandra Susan. "How Pretrial Incarceration Diminishes Individuals' Employment Prospects." Federal Probation 86.3 (December 2022): 11-18.
Muhammad, Khalil Gibran, Bruce Western, Yamrot Negussie, and Emily Backes, eds. Reducing Racial Inequality in Crime and Justice: Science, Practice, and Policy. National Academies Press, 2022.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Social Costs of Pretrial Electronic Monitoring in San Francisco
Smith, Sandra Susan, and Cierra Robson. "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Social Costs of Pretrial Electronic Monitoring in San Francisco." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-014, September 2022.
Ang, Desmond. "The Birth of a Nation: Media and Racial Hate." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-038, November 2020 (Updated July 2022).
Smith, Sandra Susan. "Pretrial Detention, Pretrial Release & Public Safety." Arnold Ventures Public Safety Series, July 2022.
Herring, Christopher and Sandra Susan Smith. "The Limits of Ban-the-Box Legislation." Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Policy Brief, March 2022.
Muhammad, Khalil. "The Foundational Lawlessness of the Law Itself: Racial Criminalization & the Punitive Roots of Punishment in America." Daedalus 151.1 (Winter 2022): 107-120.
Jorgensen, Isabella, and Sandra Susan Smith. "The Current State of Bail Reform in the United States: Results of a Landscape Analysis of Bail Reforms Across All 50 States." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-033, December 2021.
Smith, Sandra Susan, and Cathy Hu. "Exploring the Causal Mechanisms Linking Pretrial Detention and Future Penal System Involvement." Handbook on Pretrial Justice. Ed. Christine S. Scott-Hayward, Jennifer E. Copp, and Stephen Demuth. Routledge, 2022, 88-109.
Ang, Desmond, Panka Bencsik, Jesse Bruhn, and Ellora Derenoncourt. "Police Violence Reduces Civilian Cooperation and Engagement with Law Enforcement." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-022, September 2021.
Ang, Desmond. "The Effects of Police Violence on Inner-City Students." Quarterly Journal of Economics 136.1 (February 2021): 115-168.
Ang, Desmond, and Jonathan Tebes. "Civic Responses to Police Violence." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-033, October 2020.
Smith, Sandra Susan. "The Massachusetts Bail Fund Is on the Right Side of the Law — and Justice." The Boston Globe. August 18, 2020.
Ang, Desmond. "The Effects of Police Violence on Inner-City Students." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-016, June 2020.
Dobbie, Will, Hans Gronqvist, Susan Niknami, Marten Palme, and Mikael Priks. "The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Incarceration." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP19-031, 2019.
Dobbie, Will, Andres Liberman, Daniel Paravisini, and Vikram Pathania. "Measuring Bias in Consumer Lending." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP19-029, 2019.
Do 40-Year-Old Facts Still Matter? Long-Run Effects of Federal Oversight under the Voting Rights Act
Ang, Desmond. "Do 40-Year-Old Facts Still Matter? Long-Run Effects of Federal Oversight under the Voting Rights Act." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 11.3 (July 2019): 1-53.
Dobbie, Will, Adrien Auclert, and Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham. "Macroeconomic Effects of Debt Relief: Consumer Bankruptcy Protections in the Great Recession." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series, March 2019.
Dobbie, Will. "Teacher Characteristics and Student Achievement: Evidence from Teach For America." July 2011.