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
Nedelkoska, Ljubica, Diego Martin, Alexia Lochmann, Ricardo Hausmann, Dany Bahar, and Muhammed A. Yildirim. "De facto Openness to Immigration." February 2025.
Chacua, Christian, Shreyas Gadgin Matha, Matte Hartog, Ricardo Hausmann, and Muhammed A. Yildirim. "Global Trends in Innovation Patterns: A Complexity Approach." Growth Lab Working Paper Series, September 2024.
Chacua, Christian, Shreyas Gadgin Matha, Matte Hartog, Ricardo Hausmann, and Muhammed A. Yildirim. "Innovation Policies Under Economic Complexity." Growth Lab Working Paper Series, September 2024.
Lamby, Lucas, Sophia Henn, Tim O鈥橞rien, and Ricardo Hausmann. "Diagnosing Wyoming's Workforce Challenges." Growth Lab Working Paper Series, July 2024.
Schetter, Ulrich, Dario Diodato, Eric Protzer, Frank Neffke, and Ricardo Hausmann. "From Products to Capabilities: Constructing a Genotypic Product Space." Growth Lab Working Paper Series, June 2024.
Al-Karablieh, Yazan, Rema Hanna, and Rohini Pande. "Who benefits? Experimental evidence on Saudi women鈥檚 take-up of unemployment assistance." Economics Letters (April 6, 2024).
Bahar, Dany, Guillermo Arcay, Jesus Daboin Pacheco, and Ricardo Hausmann. "Japan鈥檚 Economic Puzzle." CID Faculty Working Paper Series, March 2024.
Hausmann, Ricardo. Review of Harnessing global value chains for regional development: How to upgrade through regional policy, FDI, and trade, by Riccardo Crescenzi and Oliver Harman. Regional Studies, February 2, 2024.
Gaduh, Arya, Tilman Graff, Rema Hanna, Gabriel Kreindler, and Benjamin Olken. "Designing a public transit network: Evidence from Jakarta, Indonesia." VoxDev (December 6, 2023).
Cheema, Ali, Asim I. Khwaja, M. Farooq Naseer, and Jacob N. Shapiro. "Glass Walls: Experimental Evidence on Constraints faced by Women in Accessing Valuable Skilling Opportunities." August 24, 2023.
Hausmann, Ricardo, and Ketan Ahuja. "A more globally minded European green industrial policy." Sparking Europe鈥檚 new industrial revolution: A policy for net zero, growth and resilience. Ed. Simone Tagliapietra and Reinhilde Veugelers. Bruegel, 2023.
Kreindler, Gabriel, Arya Gaduh, Tilman Graff, Rema Hanna, and Benjamin A. Olken. "Optimal Public Transportation Networks: Evidence from the World鈥檚 Largest Bus Rapid Transit System in Jakarta." 糖心vlog官网 Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-018, June 2023.
Diodato, Dario, Ricardo Hausmann, and Frank Neffke. "The Impact of Return Migration on Employment and Wages in Mexican Cities." Journal of Urban Economics 135 (May 2023): 103557.
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.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Daniel P. Stock, and Muhammed A. Yildirim. "Implied comparative advantage." Research Policy 51.8 (October 2022): 104143.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Miguel Santos, Corrado Macchiarelli, and Renato Giacon. "What economic complexity theory can tell us about the EU鈥檚 pandemic recovery and resilience plans." LSE Blog. August 30, 2021.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Carlo Pietrobelli, and Miguel Angel Santos. "Place-specific determinants of income gaps: New sub-national evidence from Mexico." Journal of Business Research 131 (July 2021): 782-792.
Nedelkoska, Ljubica, Andre Assumpcao, Ana Grisanti, Matte Hartog, Julian Hinz, Jessie Lu, Daniela Muhaj, Eric Protzer, Annalee Saxenian, and Ricardo Hausmann. "The Role of the Diaspora in the Internationalization of the Colombian Economy." CID Faculty Working Paper Series, May 2021.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Eric Protzer, Jorge Tapia, and Ana Grisanti. "Economic Complexity Report for Western Australia." CID Working Paper Series, April 2021.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Ana Grisanti, Douglas Barrios, Eric S. M. Protzer, Jorge Tapia, Nikita Taniparti, Rushabh Sanghvi, Semiray Kasoolu, and Tim O'Brien. "Western Australia 鈥 Research Findings and Policy Recommendations." CID Faculty Working Papers Series, April 2021.
O鈥機lery, Neave, Muhammed Ali Yildirim, and Ricardo Hausmann. "Productive Ecosystems and the arrow of development." Nature Communications 12.1 (March 2021): 1479.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Miguel 脕ngel Santos, Jorge Tudela Pye, Yang Li, and Ana Grisanti. "Loreto鈥檚 Hidden Wealth: Economic Complexity Analysis and Productive Diversification Opportunities." CID Faculty Working Papers Series, March 2021.
Hausmann, Ricardo, and Patricio Goldstein. "Economics of Covid-19 in three sub-Saharan African countries: Ethiopia, Namibia and South Africa." Shaping Africa's Post-Covid Recovery. Ed. Rabah Arezki, Simeon Djankov, and Ugo Panizza. CEPR Press, 2021, 195-213.
Danielle F. Jung and Dara Kay Cohen. Lynching and Local Justice: Legitimacy and Accountability in Weak States. Cambridge University Press, 2020.