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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).
Selin, Noelle E., Amanda Giang, and William C. Clark. "Progress in modeling dynamic systems for sustainable development." PNAS 120.40 (October 3, 2023): e2216656120.
Dynan, Karen. "Advanced economies will experience subdued growth, outlook for emerging markets is varied." Peterson Institute for International Economics (September 29, 2023).
Dynan, Karen. "PIIE projects global economy poised for soft landing." Peterson Institute for International Economics (September 26, 2023).
Frankel, Jeffrey. "The Ideological Looking Glass." Project Syndicate, September 19, 2023.
Woolcock, Michael. "What Is Distinctive about Religious Inequality? Challenges and Opportunities for Development Policy." Poverty and Prejudice: Religious Inequality and the Struggle for Sustainable Development. Ed. Mariz Tadros, Philip Mader, and Kathryn Cheeseman. Bristol University Press, September 19, 2023, 171-178.
Bachas, Pierre, Matthew Fisher-Post, Anders Jensen, and Gabriel Zucman. "Globalization and Factor Income Taxation." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-027, August 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.
Elmendorf, Douglas, and Heidi L. Williams. "A serious case for dynamic scoring." Slow Boring, August 28, 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.
Frankel, Jeffrey. "Is the era of zero interest rates gone for good?" The Guardian, August 17, 2023.
Juhász, Réka, Nathan J. Lane, and Dani Rodrik. "The New Economics of Industrial Policy." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-022, August 2023.
Olaberria, Eduardo, and Carmen Reinhart. "The Reversal Problem: Development Going Backwards." Credibility of Emerging Markets, Foreign Investors' Risk Perceptions, and Capital Flows. Ed. Álvaro Aguirre, Andrés Fernández, and Sebnem Kalemli-Özcan. Central Bank of Chile, 2023, 301-314.
Frankel, Jeffrey. "Is the US Economy Headed for a Soft Landing?" Project Syndicate, July 17, 2023.
Hausmann, Ricardo, and Ketan Ahuja. "A more globally minded European green industrial policy." Sparking Europe’s new industrial revolution: A policy for net zero, growth and resilience. Ed. Simone Tagliapietra and Reinhilde Veugelers. Bruegel, 2023.
Rodrik, Dani. "Productivism and new industrial policies: learning from the past, preparing for the future." Sparking Europe's New Industrial Revolution. 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’s Largest Bus Rapid Transit System in Jakarta." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-018, June 2023.
Ljunggren, Börje, and Dwight Perkins, eds. Vietnam: Navigating a Rapidly Changing Economy, Society, and Political Order. Harvard University Press, 2023.
Frankel, Jeffrey. "America’s Mythical Fiscal Conservatives." Project Syndicate, June 16, 2023.
Barron, Patrick John, Louise J. Cord, Jose Antonio Cuesta Leiva,Sabina Anne Espinoza, Gregory Michael Larson, and Michael Woolcock. "Social Sustainability and the Development Process: What Is It, Why Does It Matter, and How Can It Be Enhanced?" World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series, June 15, 2023.
de Benedictis-Kessner, Justin, Katherine Levine Einstein, and Maxwell Palmer. "Who Should Make Decisions? Public Perceptions of Democratic Inclusion in Housing Policy." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-016, June 2023.
Frankel, Jeffrey. "How to Quench the American West’s Thirst." Project Syndicate, May 29, 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.
Frankel, Jeffrey. "Debt Restructuring for Commodity Exporters." Project Syndicate, April 25, 2023.
Bùi, Thao-Nguyên, Tim Freeman, Ricardo Hausmann, Farah Kaddah, Lucas Lamby, Tim O’Brien, and Eric Protzer. "Housing in Wyoming: Constraints and Solutions." CID Faculty Working Paper Series, April 2023.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Miguel Ángel Santos, Jorge Tudela Pye, Frank Muci, Yang Li, Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm, Ana Cristina Grisanti, and Jessie Lu. "Policy Recommendations for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth in the Peruvian Amazonia." CID Faculty Working Paper Series, April 2023.
Rodrik, Dani. "On Productivism." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-012, March 2023.
Frankel, Jeffrey. "Fifty Years of Floating Currencies." Project Syndicate, March 20, 2023.
Barron, Patrick, Louise Cord, José Cuesta, Sabina A. Espinoza, Greg Larson, and Michael Woolcock. "Social Sustainability in Development: Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century." World Bank Group, March 15, 2023.
Deming, David. "Multidimensional Human Capital and the Wage Structure." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-011, March 2023.
Orrell, Brent, Greg Wright, Harry Holzer, Rachel Lipson, and David Deming. "What works in workforce development and how can it work better?" Brookings, March 8, 2023.
Lastra-Anadón, Carlos X., and Paul E. Peterson. "The Efficiency-Equity Trade-off in a Federal System: Local Financing of Schools and Student Achievement." Publius: The Journal of Federalism 53.2 (Spring 2023): 174-200.
Bùi, Thao-Nguyên, Tim Freeman, Farah Kaddah, Lucas Lamby, Yang Li, Tim O’Brien, Eric Protzer, Alejandro Rueda-Sanz, Ricardo Villasmil, and Ricardo Hausmann. "A Growth Perspective on Wyoming." CID Faculty Working Paper Series, March 2023.
Taylor, Charles A. "Irrigation and Climate Change: Long-run Adaptation and its Externalities." March 2023.
Frankel, Jeffrey. "The Crusade to Ban ESG Makes No Sense." Project Syndicate, February 24, 2023.
Eichengreen, Barry, Ricardo Hausmann, and Ugo Panizza. "Yet it Endures: The Persistence of Original Sin." Open Economies Review 34 (February 2023): 1-42.
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.
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.
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.
Mock, Rozalyn, Megan Willis-Jackson, Bobby Wang, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Linda Bilmes, and Brian Iammartino. "Can Inclusionary Zoning Be an Effective Housing Policy in Greater Boston? Evidence from Lynn and Revere." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-006, January 2023.
Autor, David, David Dorn, and Gordon H. Hanson. "Trading Places: Mobility Responses of Native and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-007, January 2023.
Hanson, Gordon H. "Local Labor Market Impacts of the Energy Transition: Prospects and Policies." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-005, January 2023.
Borjas, George, and Hugh Cassidy. "The Fall and Rise of Immigrant Employment During the COVID-19 Pandemic." Foundational Essays in Immigration Economics. Ed. Polachek, Solomon W., and Konstantinos Tatsiramos. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023.
Frankel, Jeffrey. "Biden Should let the Game of Debt Ceiling Chicken Play Out." Los Angeles Times, January 19, 2023.
Smith, Sheila D., Joseph P. Newhouse, and Gigi A. Cuckler. "Health Care Spending Growth Has Slowed: Will the Bend in the Curve Continue?" vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-001, January 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.
Summers, Lawrence H. "Three Key Issues for Post-pandemic Monetary Policy." Cato Policy Report, November/December 2022.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Predictions that global economy is heading for a recession are premature." The Guardian, December 29, 2022.
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.